Minister for Education Martin Dixon and Professor Suzanne Cory open the Suzanne Cory High School in Werribee.
By XAVIER SMERDON
IT IS a school reserved for only the best and brightest students in Melbourne and last week it officially opened to great fanfare.
The Suzanne Cory High School in Hoppers Lane, Werribee, was opened by the Minister for Education, Martin Dixon, and its namesake, biologist Suzanne Cory.
The school is the first ever selective entry high school in the western suburbs and it has a focus on science and maths.
In the state-of-the-art auditorium an orchestra played tunes and a choir sang the national anthem, showing exactly the high calibre of students chosen to be a part of the new school.
Minister Dixon said the school would prove valuable to the West.
“This school will serve a particular job for the western suburbs,” Mr Dixon said.
“It’s a wonderful building that will stand the test of time. It’s easy to build a school for 200 students but this one will have 800 students using it day in and day out.”
Suzanne Cory, known for her work lobbying the Australian Government to invest in science, said it was an honour to officially open the school.
“This is a most significant day in my life,” Ms Cory said.
“I’m most honoured to have a school bear my name and that I’m here for the opening, usually that happens when you’re dead.”
The school is designed to feel more like a university campus than a high school, with a large central agora with a roof that can be opened or closed depending on the weather.
Mr Dixon said the State Government would soon be announcing science and maths specialists that will be placed in primary schools to prepare students for work in those fields in the future.
