With rapid postwar population growth to the east of Melbourne, various State and Federal Governments recognised the need to provide suitable educational facilities.
[1] It was quickly realised that the children of these servicemen, would need suitable government-funded Primary and Secondary educational facilities.
The latter 'hexagon' was designed to enable internal walls to be temporarily reconfigured, allowing for team-teaching of larger groups, or other collaborative activities.
This functionality has now been reproduced in Glen Waverley Secondary College's Middle School Building, where the reconfigurable classroom design supports Enquiry Learning pedagogies.
By the 1990s the children born in Waverley in the boom years of growth were long grown and most had left the area to form households of their own.
This pattern of the ageing of the suburb was compounded by the fall in the birth rate compared to the baby boom of the postwar years.