St Francis de Sales Regional College
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St Francis De Sales Regional College is a regional Catholic secondary school in the Riverina town of Leeton, southwestern New South Wales, Australia.
It is one of the largest schools in the Riverina, drawing students from such towns as Griffith, Narrandera, Deniliquin, Coleambally and Hay. A major boarding program accommodates students from around the region, but most of the enrolment comes from Leeton. The school is situated on Yanco Avenue on the southern approach to Leeton and helps establish the town as a significant educational centre.
On an Irregular basis the school stages enormous musical productions which are conducted at a near professional standard thanks to the music department and its dedicated directors and teachers. In 2002 at Leeton's Roxy Theatre St. Francis staged Oliver with an enormous cast and crew. In 2005 St. Francis premiered the production of Buralga which was written by the school's own music teacher and director Mark Ciavarella. Production was undertaken by former student Paul Marin and his own production company employing the use of several kilometres of cable and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of professional equipment including moving lights, smoke machines, flying rigs and other stage equipment. It was filmed and a limited number of DVDs were produced, most going to the cast and crew. The school also holds a performing and visual arts showcase annually which exhibits the school's talent in the areas of music, drama, Visual arts, photography and digital media, as well as incorporating the hospitality department who provide canapés for the intermission break.
The school well renowned for many of it's key learing areas especially the Creative and Performing Arts, Physical Education and Technology and applied studies ( including Hospitality, Industrial metals, timber, construction, multimedia, textiles and graphics technology). All of which have access to industry standard, state of the art facilities.
[edit] Administration
The current principal of the college is Mrs. Brenda King and the vice principal is Mr. Sebastion Spina.
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