Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Derinya Primary School

Mr EDBROOKE (Frankston) (12:59): I want to share a huge congratulation to Derinya Primary School, the community, the kids and the teachers, of course. Derinya Primary School celebrated their 50th anniversary last week—or this year. There is no better way to celebrate than to have a gift, and they were able to open up their $4.9 million redevelopment last week. Appropriately, this building is called the Jenny Roth Centre, and that is entirely appropriate. Jenny Roth, the principal of Derinya Primary School for 20 years, was present, and I reckon you could almost see a tear in Jenny’s eye at that point.

A special thankyou to our school leaders, Kate, Lachlan, Evie and Kobe. You were amazing, taking us on the school tour. And also a huge thanks to an amazing school community, who got this project done. They made sure that they held everyone to account. They knew what their community needed and they told us in no uncertain terms, and we delivered that.

Also thank you to Peta Murphy for taking the time to come out to the school. Peta is a great local member and also fought very hard for funding for this school as well, as I remember. So that was great to have her along as well.

Congratulations to everyone involved in the 50th birthday celebrations and also in the opening of the new building at Derinya Primary School.

Sitting suspended 1.00 pm until 2.01 pm.

Business interrupted under sessional orders.