Happy New Year to our Wonderful North West College Community.
We are delighted with the ongoing progress of North West College to date. Starting with 22 students in February 2025, we have begun February 2026 with 144 students and are very close to capacity. This represents very pleasing growth and demonstrates our successful philosophy of combining academic excellence and creative arts, along with the quality of our programmes.
We have been very fortunate with our staff appointments through 2025 and into the beginning of 2026, attracting fully qualified, professional teacher specialists, teachers and tutors who are passionate about their subjects and the school. Our 2025 students made very positive progress in all of their subjects, and this will continue throughout 2026.
We have also been very fortunate to be able to lease the buildings on the corner of Universal Drive and Central Park Drive. Years 9 and 10 are now located in classrooms at 199 Universal Drive. The students and staff are very impressed with their new facilities. The corner building, currently under construction, has been designed for us as our forever school. The whole school will move there in December 2026, ready for the 2027 school year.
Over the last two weeks, our teaching staff have been involved in an intensive orientation programme designed to ensure consistency in instruction and behaviour management. Our school Principal, Mrs Randles and our Deputy Principal, Ms Oliver, have prepared a very extensive programme for them across all year levels over both sites.
We will be organising some parent/family information meetings. These will be listed on our website, and you will receive emails to inform you of dates and times at least two weeks in advance.
We will also be opening enrolment applications for Year 7 for 2027 from Term 2 2026. There are only 40 places available. If you have a sibling you wish to enrol in this cohort, please ensure you reach out to us before then. This is so we can prioritise our current students’ siblings before offering placements to new families.
We look forward to continuing our stellar progress throughout 2026. Thank you for your support.
Sherida and Ken
Acknowledgement
We acknowledge the co-operation and support of Morrison Horticulture Limited, the owners of the buildings. They have been incredibly accommodating, in particular Building Project Manager Scotty Morrison.
