Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Fairhills Primary School

Mr TAYLOR (Bayswater) (19:08): (6249) I wish to raise a matter with the Minister for Education. The action that I seek is that the minister provide my community with an update on the latest on the nearly $500 000 upgrade of facilities at Fairhills Primary School. Of course this is one of our great local schools in our community. It has done an amazing job in ensuring kids get the very best education and has continued to do so right throughout the last couple of years as well, which we know have been particularly challenging. In 2020 Fairhills Primary was awarded a grant of $496 125 from the Andrews Labor government’s Minor Capital Works Fund to install a new full-sized basketball/multipurpose court with a shade structure to provide a shaded outdoor sports area at the school. This is going to be a great all-inclusive and accessible play space for kids to play, connect and grow, all while being sun smart—incredibly important.

The minor capital works program has been a great program enabling schools to do minor works to improve and upgrade their schools to ensure they have the best facilities to learn and play in. Locally I am proud that we have delivered works via this fund to not only this school but Great Ryrie Primary, Bayswater South Primary and Regency Park Primary. I cannot wait to see this take shape, and I look forward to getting out there and kicking off construction with principal Moi Beaurain and leading teacher Stuart Beever, who have done a great job building this project from the ground up. They should be incredibly proud of their work to see this become a reality, as it will no doubt be a great space that kids of today and for years to come will be able to enjoy. I thank the minister for his consideration of my request and for the work he and his team continue to do to support our great local schools.

And just very quickly: a very happy 60th wedding anniversary to my grandparents Ray Pearson and Nedra Pearson. I have been waiting to say this for weeks in Parliament. I never get a chance. I never go to 3 minutes in my adjournment matter. My grandparents are like my parents to me. I love them very much. They are the greatest people I know. Sixty years—my God, I do not know how they have done it. My nanna, she is beautiful, but she is irritating at the best of times. I will show her this video. I love her. They should be incredibly proud of all the years they have spent together, and here’s to many more, with my grandfather coming out of hospital after months this year. He is doing incredibly well again. I wish them a very happy anniversary.