Thursday, 2 May 2024

Bentleigh Secondary College

Nick STAIKOS (Bentleigh) (17:16): (634) My adjournment matter this evening is for the attention of the Premier, and the action that I seek from the Premier is that she visits Bentleigh Secondary College to officially open the brand new performing arts centre later this year.

I actually went on a tour of the construction site recently with seven superstars – they were Aiden Atlas, Thomas McGill, Klaudia Nantz, Chloe Holt, Oscar Green, Tiana Bray and Ella Slattery – and I can tell you it is looking absolutely amazing. It has absolutely everything. It has got a theatre of around 500 seats. It has got a dance studio. It has got instrumental music rooms. It has got classrooms. It has got a new canteen. It has everything that this outstanding school needs for their amazing performing arts program. As you can see, I am very enthusiastic about it, because I have spent the last 10 years as a local member attending many, many amazing musical productions at the old performing arts centre at Bentleigh, which was not fit for purpose. I am really looking forward to the amazing things that Bentleigh Secondary College can do in their performing arts program with this fit-for-purpose building, and I would ask that the Premier herself visits Bentleigh Secondary College to officially open it when the time comes.