A new era began at St Matthew’s Catholic School yesterday when their first ever Year 11 students started school for 2015.
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The move means St Matthew’s has become the first Catholic Kindergarten to Year 12 school in the Bathurst diocese.
Where before the school would farewell their pupils after they completed Year 10, this group will become St Matts’ inaugural Higher School Certificate (HSC) students.
The Year 11 cohort is comprised of 34 students.
St Matt’s is excited to commence Stage 6 schooling which they said is one of the biggest changes in the school’s 100 year history.
The announcement they would expand into Years 11 and 12 was made at the school’s end of year speech night back in 2013.
Much of last year was spent preparing for 2015 with the school bolstering its secondary school ranks with the addition of several new positions specifically to cater for Stage 6.
They also held a series of information nights to discuss and prepare parents for the school’s expansion into Year 11 and subsequently Year 12 in 2016.
St Matt’s made the decision to expand into the HSC years because of an increasing demand for a Catholic education for Years 11 and 12.
The decision was also made in a bid to take the pressure off families worried about moving their sons and daughters to other schools to ensure secondary positions.
