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Locals meet new principal

Locals meet new principal
Sean Car

Two information sessions last month provided local families the opportunity to meet the new principal of the second new primary school to open in our area in as many years.

Former Kingswood Primary School principal Rosemary Cosentino was revealed by the Department of Education and Training (DET) last month as the person charged with the responsibility of leading the new school.

Opening for term one in 2019 at Albert Park Reserve, the new South Melbourne Park Primary School (interim name) will follow this year’s opening of the vertical South Melbourne Primary School at Ferrars St, Southbank.

Servicing a rapidly expanding inner-city community of Port Phillip and its surrounds, the new school will incorporate the old Albert Park Signal Depot and Drill Hall heritage buildings in creating a state-of-the-art education facility.

Having been a principal for more than 14 years, Ms Cosentino’s previous school in Dingley was recognised by the DET as a “Lead School”.

An innovative principal who’s passionate about preparing students for their future, she told Southbank Local News that she was a strong believer in allowing kids to find passion.

“When kids find their passion everything else falls into place – their self-esteem grows and they’re doing something that they really enjoy,” she said.

“At Kingswood we were offering basically everything from robotics to coding to art to sport to chess to camping programs to snow to surf – really put teaching at the point of need of where the child is so you really get high academic results.”

Surrounded by the likes of the Victorian Institute of Sport, Athletics Victoria and the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC), the DET has also earmarked the school to be an elite sports education provider.

Ms Cosentino presented her vision for the school to the community over two information sessions on May 22 and 23. She said she was incredibly excited and humbled to be leading the project.

“It’s a principal’s dream to open up their very own school,” she said. “For me it’s a new challenge too because I’ve worked in suburbia but never in the inner-city so I was so excited by the opportunity.”

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