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It's been a big year for Good News Lutheran College, Tarneit Victoria, with the school opening its new Early Learning Centre, Farmhouse Kinder, and breaking ground at the site of the Mambourin campus.
A flurry of construction activity since Principal Fiona McAuliffe turned soil at a ceremony in May 2024, has seen the Mambourin campus start to take shape.
Future Mambourin students, who have already begun their Good News journey at Tarneit, attended the ceremony to plant trees that will grow with them and the new campus.
GNLC has offered a Christ-centred holistic education at Tarneit since 1997 and, with LLL's support, is undertaking a visionary project to build a brand-new campus to help meet demand for quality education in Melbourne's booming west.
The Mambourin campus will welcome students from Term 1, 2025, with the staged build to reach another milestone in time for Term 3.
"The concept of the original design has not changed, but we continue to get more detail from staff and students … our Mambourin Year 2s have been particularly helpful!" Principal Fiona said.
"The current Mambourin students at Tarneit are doing very well, they show all of the strengths of a student in the Good News family but with their own personality."
Little learners welcomed
The official opening of Farmhouse Kinder, also built with the aid of an LLL Loan, at a ceremony at the school's Tarneit campus in March 2024, was the culmination of years of hard work and dedication.
"LLL have always been supportive and easy to work with … they encourage us to dream, then plan, then dream again!" Fiona said.
"We started thinking about (an Early Learning Centre) in late 2021, which is when we arranged for removal of the original farmhouse that existed on the land well before it became a school site.
"The demand in the area and the opportunity to provide much-needed services to the community was what prompted us to make plans for a kindergarten and allied health facilities."
Visit: www.goodnews.vic.edu.au
Photos: Farmhouse Kinder was officially opened in March, 2024, with the new Mambourin set to wlecome students in 2025.
