Wednesday, 22 June 2022

 Mr RICHARDSON (Mordialloc) (09:53): It was a great pleasure to join the Premier recently at Mordialloc College to open the stage 2 redevelopment works with hundreds of excited students. I want to pay tribute to principal Michelle Roberts, her principal leadership team and the wider Mordialloc College community. It has been a wonderful journey to get to the completion of the junior learning centre, the year 7 and year 8 building. To go from classroom to classroom and meet some of the young legends out there was absolutely outstanding, and I want to wish them all the very best for the future.

It is part of a package of investments that we are delivering for our community. From Chelsea through to Parkdale and into Keysborough South, we are delivering in education. We are providing mental health and wellbeing support in every single government school. We are making our schools more inclusive for the future with a disability inclusion package as well. It is really exciting that now, in the second year of the rollout, we have hundreds of schools that are benefiting from that tier 2 funding. This is generational change that will make sure that all students are supported in an inclusive environment. A strengths-based approach to their learning and their education is so very critical. This policy was worked on by the Deputy Premier and Minister for Education and is as reforming and transformational as three-year-old kinder. So it was really exciting to be out there to see that benefit and how that is changing across the communities—hundreds of schools now benefiting from more inclusive education for the future.