Star’s School Of The Year Announced

After a week of live broadcasts from schools throughout the region, Star Mackay has announced their School of the Year for 2023.

Scotty and Kaley surprised students at Glenella State School at their Monday morning assembly, crowning the school as the station’s inaugural School of the Year and handing over the $10,000 prize.

The competition was judged on the most votes received, the creativity of responses and the intended use of the prize money, with Glenella State School hoping to spend the money on sound gear and smoke machines for discos.

“We are thrilled that a school like Glenella State could take out the first ever $10,000 Star School of the Year,” said Star’s Scotty and Kaley.

“It was a gruelling judging process but in the end Glenella won out with their creativity on how they wanted to spend the money and the public outpouring for them meant that, while they weren’t the biggest school in our top 5, they did end up with the most votes!”

“Thank you so much to Richglen Maintenance Services for making it all happen.”

Earlier in the month, Glenella State School was forced to close following significant vandalism making parts of the campus unusable and forcing hundreds of students to temporarily relocate their studies to nearby Mackay West State School.

School Principal Brett Di Boni said the competition came at a perfect time after what the school has been through.

“This is really great for our school,” he told Scotty and Kaley.

“The silver lining in everything we’ve experienced in the last week is what a great community we’re a part of.

“It’s been great and that’s been further reinforced here.”

Glenella State School was shortlisted alongside four other finalists including St Catherine’s Catholic College, Homebush State School, Seaforth State School and Eimeo Road State School.

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Glenella State School students were in raptures when Scotty and Kaley crashed their assembly to crown them School of the Year. Photos supplied: Star

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