By Victoria Stone-Meadows
One of Cranbourne’s newest primary schools welcomed some special visitors to a student leadership assembly.
Members of the Melbourne Football Club presented the first batch of school leaders Brodie, Kaiden, Kajal and Hiruni with their badges at the Tulliallan Primary School assembly on Tuesday 28 February.
Melbourne Demons football players Colin Garland and Melissa Hickey presented the new school captains with their badges and spoke of their primary school experiences.
The school also welcomed other Melbourne players in attendance – Sam Frost, Aaron Vandenberg, Karen Paxman and Sam Weideman – to the assembly to meet the first students at the school.
The school’s inaugural house captains were also appointed after a visit from local historian Heather Arnold on Tuesday 21 February, who taught the students about the history of the local area.
It was from this local knowledge that the students then drew inspiration for their house names based on people and families that owned the land the school now sits on.
The four new houses at the school are:
Rossiter (red): named for the Rossiter family who owned the property for more than 20 years and were the first official owners. The Rossiter house captains are Farida and Jackson.
Mitchell (blue): named for George Mitchell who decided on the name of Tulliallan based on it being the name of his parent’s home in Williamstown. Mr Mitchell’s father James was also on the committee that chose the design for the Australian flag. The Mitchell house captains are Zara and William.
Elder (yellow): named for the Elder family who owned the property now occupied by the school for longer than anyone else. Elder house captains are Jyothika and Dawoud.
Strettle (green): named for the Strettle family who lived on the land for more than 20 years and purchased additional land to expand the size of the property. Strettle house captains are Heart and Xavier.
