Just two months after the new school opened, it has received two portable classrooms from its former site.

Principal Jamie Gay said the portables would allow the school to cope with a peak enrolment expected within the next two years.

“The Department of Education is being pro-active with the expected continual expansion of the school into the future,” Mr Gay said.

Belvoir has 175 full-time students aged five to 18, who have mild to severe intellectual disabilities.

Mr Gay said the two classrooms, which the school was likely to start using some time next year, would provide for a peak enrolment of 206 students.

“It’s very pleasing to see this growth,” he said.

“And it’s also very pleasing to know the department is looking ahead knowing full well the school is in a growth phase and they’re preparing for that expansion now.

“I think it’s amazing and wonderful at the same time.”

Mr Gay said student numbers were expected to plateau once the school reached that 206-student mark.

The Gayview Drive school was opened in August.

It includes internal and external withdrawal spaces, a sensory garden, a sandpit and musical play area.

Mr Gay said everybody loved the new school.

“The kids are far more settled than they were and I think the staff are the ones who find the facility the most wonderful,” he said.

“Everything’s there and you don’t have to move in and out of portables.

“And the roofs don’t leak, which is nice and a change from our previous location.”

Mr Gay said there was no doubt having such a modern, purpose-designed school greatly aided the learning and teaching experience.

“And the site is flat, which is great because I’ve got one of my staff in here who has to push a wheelchair every day.”