MASTER PLAN
30-Year
Master Plan “LEAVE AFTER YOU SOMETHING ON WHICH OTHERS MAY BUILD.” – MOTHER GONZAGA BARRY 2017-2047 MASTER PLAN Loreto Normanhurst is an exciting and innovative school providing excellence in girls’ education for over 123 years and preparing students for life in an everchanging world. Our award-winning model of education encourages our students to be lifelong learners who are curious and critical thinkers with a broad vision for the future. As a vibrant and dynamic school, we are also continually reinventing – striving to offer outstanding education and facilities for young women that is relevant to the changing times in which we live. To support our mission, we have developed a 30-year Master Plan – a Master Plan that will suit contemporary expectations and support the education of our young women for another 123 years and beyond. The Master Plan has been developed to gradually redevelop or replace buildings with dynamic, versatile spaces. This will create an innovative and unified campus with character and identity, while ensuring sustainable and ecologically sensitive development over time.
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The 30-year Master Plan for Loreto Normanhurst is inspiring and robust and leaves all areas of the 123-year-old site reviewed and improved.
“This is an exciting time for our school with a beautiful plan for its future while honouring our tradition and values.” The first phase is the construction of an Early Learning Centre and a new Boarding School due to be completed in 2021 and 2022 respectively. The Early Learning Centre will provide: • Long day care for girls and boys from six weeks to five years old. • Modern, flexible learning and play areas and multiple green outdoor spaces. • Safe, nurturing environment underpinned by the Loreto Normanhurst vision. • Award-winning model of education that encourages curious and critical thinking and life-long learning.
We are inviting Expressions of Interest for the Early Learning Centre and if you would like to submit your interest, please visit www.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/about-us/loretonormanhurst-master-plan/. The relocation and development of the Boarding School will provide: • A multi-level boarding school with the provision of a variety of spaces for interaction and privacy to socialise, study, meet or retreat. • Boarder accommodation separate from the school overlooking the school’s sporting ovals and the beautiful Loreto Normanhurst bush setting. • A landscaped pedestrian link connecting the boarding school to the main campus. • A cascading series of spaces, both internally and externally, connected by walkways resulting in a building which opens out to the ground. • Apartments for staff accommodation purposes with individual street addresses.
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