Education Department opens public consultation on UTS Kuring-gai campus in Lindfield conversion into a school
The UTS site in Lindfield will cater for preschool to Year 12 and beyond, in one idea up for discussion.
The new school on the UTS site in Lindfield is set to be “the best school in the southern hemisphere”, according to an education consultant for the project.
Some ideas being discussed are creating a school for preschool-aged children to Year 12 and beyond, completing the HSC over three years and allowing students to advance according to their rate of progress rather than age.
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Public consultation opened this month on the school to replace the university campus, after an in-principle asset swap agreement was made in December 2012.
The university agreed to swap its Kuring-gai campus in Lindfield in exchange for the Education Department’s TAFE building on Harris St, Ultimo.
The university is due to vacate the site by the end of the 2015 academic year, with minimal building changes expected to take place, according to members of the site’s consultation committee.
An afternoon tea and tours of the site were held last Saturday and several more events will be held on Tuesday, July 29.
It includes a public consultation workshop during the day and an evening lecture by education consultant Professor Stephen Heppell, a UK professor and supporter of “barefoot learning”.
“What we are trying to do in Lindfield is taking the best of those ingredients and turn them into an absolutely unique recipe the world, I think, will be hugely excited by,” he said.
“We’ve got the chance to do the most extraordinary thing together to build the best school in the southern hemisphere and harness everything we know.”
Architects BVN Donovan Hill are among the consultants for the new school project.
Public consultation events on Tuesday, July 29:
■ Public consultation workshop with Professor Heppell from 4pm-6pm
■ Short talks by several public school educators 5pm-6.30pm
■ Public lecture by Professor Heppell 7pm
■ More information at http://lindfield.mindmixer.com/
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