All Saints' Day Official opening, naming and blessing of central courtyard redevelopment in the Senior School

College News All Saints' Day celebration goes down in College history

ALL Saints' College community members and special guests celebrated an important day in the school's history on Friday, 31 October 2008.

ALL Saints' Day is the biggest annual liturgical event in the College calendar and a celebration of the school's foundation since 1981. But the 2008 event will go down in All Saints' history books, as it also coincided with the official opening and naming, of the redeveloped central courtyard in the Senior School.

Following the traditional All Saints' Day formal Eucharist in the morning, Anglican Archbishop Roger Herft named, blessed and officially opened the central courtyard in front of a big crowd of College community members and invited guests. The Common is the winning name for the new student recreation area, which was put forward by two All Saints' students and a College parent.

Thank you to the Parents and Friends' Society for their significant funding contribution towards the redevelopment project, and for coordinating the renaming competition.

Murdoch MLA Christian Porter, Melville City Councillor and former College parent Clive Robartson, former College Principal The Reverend Peter Laurence, and current and former Board of Management members were among the invited guests.

The new $950,000 central courtyard is the first exciting project in a series of proposed building developments for All Saints' over the next 25 years. Construction work on the former Bush Court started in April 2008 when the site was cleared and levelled. More than 6500sqm of soil was removed and the new courtyard extends over 7000sqm.

The area provides several safe, comfortable, open and attractive areas for small groups of students to interact positively and it is wonderful to see so many staff and students embracing the area, both as an outdoor classroom and a passive recreation area.