Coburg West Primary School
Anthony CIANFLONE (Pascoe Vale) (16:59): On 3 April I visited my former primary school Coburg West Primary to answer students’ questions and to talk about my journey from Reynard Street to Spring Street and back again. The school first opened in 1917 and has a vibrant local history, with its iconic yellow and purple uniform very much unmistakable to the eye of any local. As part of the visit I caught up with principal Mark Colagrande to talk about the school’s plans to support its 460-plus students as well as to see the ongoing benefits of previous Labor investments, which have included $393,000 through the state’s Minor Capital Works Fund to upgrade indoor learning and classroom facilities and the school’s modern multipurpose hall, sport and music building delivered under the Building the Education Revolution program, which is a world away from the old prefab building that former students such as Anton Hockey, Paul Hockey, Ben Nucci, Kieran Barnes-Jenkins, Ryan Williams and I experienced back in the 1990s.