Good News Lutheran College has welcomed its first students to its new Mambourin campus on Monday, February 3.
The initial cohort comprised 362 students from prep to grade six, with further grades to be added as the school grows.
The school is expected to eventually accommodate 1500 prep to year 12 students on its 6.8-hectare site, which will support the existing Tarneit campus.
Following the maiden school drop off at Mambourin, parents got together for a coffee and muffin morning at Little Growling Café at residents’ centre Club Mambourin.
More than 100 parents attended the event, which was designed to help families meet and form connections.
Good News Lutheran College principal Fiona McAuliffe said the opening of the school’s Mambourin campus stemmed from a determination to offer a Christian education to families in Melbourne’s growing west.
“We’re so excited to get started and to see these children make this school their own,” she said.
“In years to come they’ll be able to proudly say that they were the very first students at what will be an educational facility of excellence and inclusion.”
