‘The new international facility will provide an exceptional boarding school life at Haileybury Rendall School’: Principal
DARWIN’S Haileybury Rendall School will become a hub for overseas senior school students with a million-dollar international senior school boarding house complex planned to open in 2022
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DARWIN’S Haileybury Rendall School will become a hub for overseas senior school students with an $8 million international senior school boarding house complex planned to open at the start of next year.
The private school, which has seen record growth in student numbers, since taking over the former Kormilda College three years ago, said the boarding facility would have accommodation for 60 students with modern shared living and recreational spaces.
Haileybury plans to leverage an extensive international network to recruit students into the new international senior school boarding house.
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Alongside Haileybury’s presence in Darwin, it has four campuses in Melbourne and operations in China, Vietnam, Philippines and Timor Leste.
It is understood the design and construct project will see old boarding accommodation torn down and replaced with a new complex.
It will result in four new ground level accommodation wings attached to a large common area.
“The new international facility will provide an exceptional boarding school life at Haileybury Rendall School,” new principal Andrew McGregor told the Sunday Territorian. “It will add an additional vibrant energy to the thriving Haileybury Rendall School community and will significantly contribute to the Darwin economy.”
Mr McGregor paid tribute to the NT Government and its “extraordinary job of managing COVID-19.
“Haileybury Rendall School provides an extremely COVID-19 safe experience for all students and Darwin is an attractive destination for prospective international students,” Mr McGregor said.
He said Haileybury Rendall School’s academic results in 2020, which saw 38 per cent of students achieve an ATAR in the top 10 per cent in Australia, will confirm for international students the strength of the school’s academic program.
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Haileybury chief executive officer Derek Scott, who is a member of the Council for International Education, the Federal Government’s key advisory body on international education, said the COVID-19 pandemic has meant campuses in Melbourne have had to be flexible in arrangements with international students currently enrolled.
“A group of students are virtual learning offshore pending the ability to return to Australia and another group have chosen to complete their education at Haileybury Senior School in Tianjin,” he said.
“Some students stayed in Australia for the summer and attended school in Melbourne.”
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