Open plan classrooms at Picton High School have been consigned to history. It follows the completion of stage one works that are part of an upgrade project to install walls in open-plan classrooms at Picton High School.
This upgrade, funded by the NSW Government, is aimed at providing enclosed classrooms to ensure that students and teachers have suitable environments for teaching and learning.
The Stage one works are now complete with the new enclosed classrooms are now in use by the school.
Picton High School was established in 1958 as a co-educational comprehensive school and services a semi-rural growing community on the edge of the Greater Sydney metropolitan area.
The school has strong links with its local community and feeder primary schools.
Stage two of the project will focus on the provision of classrooms with more complex requirements.
The design for the stage two works is progressing.
“I thank the school community and students for their patience in the upgrade of their high school,’’ says the state Member for Wollondilly Judy Hannan.
“Unfortunately, when I was elected, I found work had stopped on the hall and there was no funding for the internal upgrade of the school.
“After a visit by both the Premier and the Minister for Education we secured funding to improve the school, allowing the hall to reopen and new classrooms to be created,’’ Ms Hannan said.
“There is much more to be done to deliver the education services we need in Wollondilly, and this is a great start.
“I thank the NSW Government for listening to our concerns.”
When are we getting a new high school in the area? It’s been badly needed since 1959.