Mickleham Secondary College is starting the new school year with a bang, thanks to five sets of twins joining year 7—meaning there will be ten times the marking to do.
Each set of twins—Deziah and Joziah, Carlec and Bereyos, Jasper and Gwen, Harleen and Hargoon, and Damian and Sahib—helped contribute to 280 year 7 students starting this year.
Most twins said they preferred to not be in the class together, whereas Carlec and Bereyos are navigating high school side by side.
Gwen, who is the twin of Jasper, said there were nerves starting high school.
“It’s a bit nerve-wrecking when you are going from class to class with a twin sometimes cause you don’t know where they are, and you have separate lockers,” she said.
Jasper agreed that he enjoyed the privacy of owning his own locker.
The school opened its doors to year 7 students in January 2023, with the school’s enrolment growing each year.
Mickleham Secondary College Principal Lian Davies said it was wonderful to have multiple sets of twins join the school, adding to the growth of the school.
“As a new school it’s been really nice to see so much growth across the school, we’ve grown quite large … and it’s always lovely to see how many twins there are as well,” she said.
“It’s nice [to have multiple sets of twins], we obviously enjoy all of our students when they enrol, it’s just unusual I think to see high numbers, but it’s lovely.
“Very positive … really good start to the year … lots more to come with the coming weeks with the team building activities that we do with the year sevens.”
Pam Kiriakidis
