Warriappendi Secondary School officially opened its new home in Thebarton on Monday after it was forced to relocate from its former site at Marleston. The school was now located in the refurbished former TechinSA buildings.

Originally established in the 1980s by two Aunties, Veronica Brodie and Leila Rankine, Warriappendi is currently attended by about 80 Aboriginal students.

Its old campus has been demolished for the River Torrens to Darlington Project, with the state government saying the school also had outgrown its old campus on John Street.

The new school accommodates up to 150 students and includes yarning spaces and areas for cultural learning, wellbeing, drama and music, as well as STEM laboratories, a library, a commercial kitchen, visual and digital arts spaces, a 900 square-m

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