“Getting to know all the students personally, their families and the community more broadly, will enhance the opportunities and support we can provide to our students,” Cassandra Walters told The Free Press.
“I am passionate about teaching and learning and am very keen to work with the staff to get the best outcomes for the students.”
Ms Walters will take over as school principal from Philip Rogers who is to retire on December 19.
“Whilst I have been speaking with Phil Rogers over the past months about Rutherglen High School and its programs, I know there is so much more to learn about how RHS operates,” she said.
Currently the Campus Principal of Wodonga Senior Secondary College, where she has been since the school was established in 2006, Ms Walters moved to the Wodonga college from Mitchell Secondary College in 2001. She took on various leading teacher roles before moving to WSSC as an Assistant Principal in 2006.
Ms Walters’ teaching career began in 1995 at Frankston High School (1995) teaching Music and eventually junior Mathematics.
She and husband Scott Walters, a chiropractor in Albury, have one daughter, Tilly, who is 14 years old. They love their two dogs, two goldfish and cat.
Reading, scuba diving, and watching her daughter and husband play water polo are the new principal’s favourite past-times, as well as catching up with friends and having a good laugh.
“I am very much looking forward to working at RHS – it has been a long time since I have worked in a 7 to 12 setting,” Ms Walters said.
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