By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
A NEW primary school in Cranbourne’s south west will take on the colour scheme of navy, electric purple and a hint of orange according to the school’s only employee.
Principal of the public private partnership (PPP) school, currently called Cranbourne South West Primary School, Andrew Felsinger, said he’d still got a lot to do before gates open in 2017.
“I’ve had to come up with it all on my own,” the experienced principal said.
“I’ve never done anything like this before; most exciting part is I get to hand- pick the staff.”
Mr Felsinger is currently designing logos, picking uniforms, choosing a name for the school and answering parent calls on enrolment queries.
“I’m averaging five to 10 calls a day of enrolment questions and at the recent information session, we had 160 people attend,” Mr Felsinger said.
Currently working out of an office at Lynbrook Primary School, Mr Felsinger has been in the top job two months and is already expecting to open the school with 250 students.
“My projection is that our core building will hold 475 students and that’s before portable classrooms, we anticipate to get up to the 400 figure within two to three years,” he said.
The school started construction in January this year, and is located at 90 Everlasting Boulevard in Cranbourne West.
It’s a part of the PPP project which will see 15 new schools delivered to some of Victoria’s fastest growing metropolitan and regional communities.
The school is set to finish the construction phase in November this year.
Mr Felsinger aims to have a name and logo for the primary school ready by August.
Parents can look up the school on phone application tiqbiz.
