March 2007
The Snowy River Campus is up and running for Term 1, 2007!

40 Students from eight schools across Victoria are in residence.
The new staff team at Snowy is working hard to make sure any teething problems are overcome.
Snow River Campus - Parent Information Booklet 2007

BACKGROUND

The Snowy River Rural Learning Campus is the next phase in State Education residential learning. Based upon the successful Alpine School model, $2.8m has been allocated in this budget year to construct the 45 student, state of the art centre on the Marlo Aerodrome site in far East Gippsland, near Marlo.

The site is the second of three residential schools currently operated by State Education Victoria, the first being the Alpine School, and the third site at a yet to be finalised location in the west of the state.

Marlo was chosen because it being on the coast and, with the fabulous location of the Alpine School at Dinner Plain in the Victorian Alps, represents another in the wonderful diversity that is the Victorian landscape. The third site will conclude the trilogy of locations that will be the world-class, ambitious multi-campus residential program of Rural Learning Campuses in Victoria.

Marlo was selected from a field of over 50 locations nominated by rural shires across Victoria.

The architects for the site at Marlo, Fooks Martin Sandow Anson, were chosen by a Ministerial panel auspiced by the Australian Institute of Architects. There were 40 proposals for the architecture nominated in a National Competition.

The architects are currently working with the School Infrastructure Unit in DE&T, with key staff from the Alpine School and other stakeholders, to establish a steering committee to oversee the construction of the Snowy River Rural Learning Campus.

The site is due to be operational in late 2006 or early 2007.

Snowy River Rural Learning Campus - begins to take shape... latest images - 23 November 2006
See the latest images of the RLC...

All enquiries should be directed to Graeme Robertson at DE&T Melbourne or Mark Reeves at the Alpine School.

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