Advertisement Carey’s VCE English students spent term one reading Station 11, a novel about life after most of the world’s population has been killed in a swine flu pandemic. Twin brothers Otto and Finn Mazzetti of Carey Baptist Grammar are sweating on their year 12 results. Credit:Jason South “We all started the year saying 'oh, this would never happen',” year 12 student Maddie Collins said. Carey was the first school in Melbourne to be hit by the coronavirus. On Friday, March 9, the independent school in Kew shut its doors after a teacher tested positive to COVID-19, in Victoria's first case of community transmission of the virus.