Luke Foley has rallied his new team of MPs just 11 days after losing the NSW election.

Mr Foley on Wednesday was re-endorsed as Labor leader along with Linda Burney his deputy at a caucus meeting in Sydney.

Adam Searle and strategist Walt Secord were also confirmed as the party’s upper house leadership team.

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Speaking before the meeting, Mr Foley said Labor’s “Class of 2015” — 20 new MPS — will raise the standard of governance in the state.

“This a terrific boost for state Labor. We have, thanks to the people of NSW, unambiguously put the past behind us at last Saturday week’s election,” he told the new MPs over scones and coffee.

“We’ll emerge over the next four years as a credible alternative government and not simply an opposition.”

The group also met with the clerks of parliament to be shown the ins and outs of parliamentary practice.

Premier Mike Baird and his coalition government were re-elected on March 28.

Returning officer Guy Zangari said Mr Foley was the only person nominated as party leader.