Cheltenham Secondary College
Mr STAIKOS (Bentleigh) (17:15): (6533) My adjournment matter this evening is for the attention of the Minister for Education and concerns Cheltenham Secondary College. The action that I seek from the minister is that she accompanies me on a visit to Cheltenham Secondary and discusses with the school community some future capital works needs at the school. I have gotten to know the Cheltenham Secondary College community over the last few months. It is a school which services the families of the Bentleigh electorate and has done so for a long time. It is one of those schools that is coming into the Bentleigh electorate as a result of the redistribution. It is a school that has in the past received a lot of support from the Andrews government. In 2019 the government completed a $7 million upgrade of Cheltenham Secondary College. It is a school of around 900 students, and there is a lot of potential for more at Cheltenham Secondary College.
I have spent a lot of my time as the member for Bentleigh ensuring that McKinnon Secondary College and Bentleigh Secondary College have everything they need. At McKinnon we built the senior school centre. We also built that state-of-the-art second campus, the east campus. At Bentleigh Secondary College we built the STEAM centre, we added two indoor courts to the college and we are about to start construction on a performing arts centre. There are so many possibilities at Cheltenham Secondary College, and I really do hope that the minister will join me on a visit to Cheltenham Secondary College to discuss what those opportunities could be.