Verney Road School

to Relocate

We are pleased to share the news that our GSSC friends and neighbours, Verney Road School, are to inherit a new home with more learning, recreation and play space for students. Treasurer Tim Pallas visited the special school on Wednesday to announce the school’s new site thanks to an investment of almost $25 million!

The staged relocation of this special school will see a major upgrade of the former Wanganui Park Secondary College on Parkside Drive, a site vacated at the end of 2021 with the opening of our new, single-campus GSSC. The Wanganui Park site and the former McGuire College are both being retained for future education purposes and the Verney Road move is in keeping with that.

Perkins Architects Pty Ltd have been appointed to design the new school with a builder expected to be appointed and start works next year, with the school open and ready for students in 2026.

Verney Road School has a proud history of providing learning and purposeful pathways for students with mild to profound intellectual disability ranging in age from three to 18, and catering for families from Shepparton and Mooroopna and across the region including Nathalia, Murchison, Euroa and Numurkah.

Purpose-built for 74 students in 1999, today Verney Road School has 227 students and 85 teachers and support staff dedicated to delivering diverse learning opportunities – but is running out of space the children need to learn, grow and play.

Verney Road School Principal, Angela Buxton, said the new site would provide that space as well as modern learning facilities for Verney Rd families.

“This is an exciting time for our school community as we plan and prepare for the new facilities and the learning and recreation spaces we need to continue to deliver skills, independence and life opportunities for our students.”