Thursday, 30 November 2023

 Nina TAYLOR (Albert Park) (18:25): (488) My adjournment is for the Minister for Education. The action I seek is for the minister to join me in visiting Port Melbourne Primary School, a thriving local school in my electorate, to see how numerous upgrades are supporting teachers and students respectively in teaching and learning. Back in 2016, $5.496 million was provided for upgrades to the school. This included the construction of a gym, relocation of modular buildings and classroom upgrades. More recently Port Melbourne Primary School has undergone a second stage of modernisation to its facilities. In the 2019–20 state budget the school received $784,400, and in 2020 the school received $7.06 million. This included the construction of state-of-the-art classrooms and an admin facility to complement upgrades to sports, music and arts facilities completed back in 2019. This has given students access to modernised learning spaces as well as helping students across grades prep to year 6 get the most out of their learning. All the new developments allow the school to continue to give Port Melbourne families the world-class school their kids deserve. Once again I thank the Minister for Education for helping to improve schools in my electorate of Albert Park, as well as the government’s ongoing support of education across the state.

With indulgence I will thank my electorate office staff Vicki, Peter, Zoe, Tyson, Fran – Fran is actually a parliamentary adviser – and I should say Esther as well in the EO; all of the staff in Parliament; and Isla Mithen and Ollie O’Connor, students on work experience from Albert Park College, who have helped this week.