Principal's Report

Early in term  4 1991, the School Council made the decision that the school should close at the end of the year, because it would not have the students to continue into 1992.

This decision came as a shock to many people who had been associated with the the school over previous years. However, to our current teachers the decision was almost an inevitability, in view of our steadily declining student numbers over recent years.

Since its opening in 1946 Oakleigh Technical School (which recently became Oakleigh Secondary  College) has served its community in a most outstanding fashion.

It has provided many hundreds of students with a grounding which enabled to successfully enter the workforce as trade apprentices, or proceed to further education at nearby institutes of technology.

The special attention provided to students' individual needs has been a feature of the school retained right up to the present time.

Many students would have left the school prematurely had it not been for Oakleigh Technical Schools' ability to recognise their particular needs, and to respond to them compassion and understanding.

I am confident that the special skills which our teachers have developed over many years wil not be lost as a result of the schools' closure. Rather , they would be transferred to  anew set of schools, where many more students will reap the benefit of the experiences built up at Oakleigh Technical School.

P. Miles

Principal