Samaritan College starts $32.5m two-campus build in Whyalla

Principal Nick Baird told the outlet the project is meant to leave something durable for the college and its town. He said: “This is one of the most significant investments in our College’s history, and we wanted it to belong to this place.”

The numbers

Per GLAM Adelaide, the $32.5 million program has three stages. The first two are being built concurrently, and everything is due to wrap up by the end of 2028.

Our Lady Help of Christians gets a new single-storey building, the outlet says, with six classrooms, breakout spaces for small-group learning, a specialist multipurpose room and new administration facilities. It also lists refreshed landscaping and a new kiss and drop car park.

St Teresa’s is set for a new two-storey building holding four classrooms, breakout areas, a resource centre, a multipurpose learning space and a new canteen. When that is done, the existing teaching and administration building will be refreshed, with its four upstairs classrooms and ground-floor staff facilities upgraded.

The sites are at 10 Toal Street and 36 Darling Terrace, Whyalla. Other Whyalla projects we have covered include the Northern Water desalination EIS.

What’s next

Planned outdoor features include yarning circles for Elders to share stories with students, a dedicated family gathering space, and gardens of native Eyre Peninsula plants and bush tucker. A new playspace will feature Gulya (emu) and Mullu (kangaroo), the namesakes of the College’s First Nations student group.

GLAM Adelaide says the College and Barngarla Elders plan to celebrate the new spaces together once the finishing touches are done.

The article does not name a builder or say who is funding the work, so those details are not reported here.