Wednesday, 29 May 2024

McKinnon Secondary College

Nick STAIKOS (Bentleigh) (09:53): It was a real pleasure recently to be at McKinnon Secondary College and to see the year 12 VCE theatre studies production of The Conference of Birds. It was an entirely student-led production. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I do want to acknowledge the students involved – Michaela Anderson, Vasya Argyris, Riley Beaumont-Weir, Charlotte Dwyer, Milana Gavrilenko, Anthony Kostelac, Yasmeen Kotliarski, Sofija Lukac, Le Quan Nguyen, Ella Ruze, Edouard Swider-Figueroa, Myra Tan and Laura Villena-Gento. As I said, I entirely enjoyed it. It was entirely student-led. The students did a great job with it.

I also, while I am on my feet, want to thank the Premier for her recent visit to McKinnon Secondary College. McKinnon is an outstanding government school in my electorate, a highly sought-after school and these days a very big school – it has got around 2800 students. I am proud of all the work that our government has done at McKinnon Secondary College, building the senior centre, which was recently named after the esteemed former principal Pitsa Binnion – and we got to show the Premier the senior centre – but I think, more importantly, building that second campus, which has really set McKinnon up for the future. Again, congratulations to the students.