Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Truganina electorate schools

Sarah CONNOLLY (Laverton) (19:17): (478) My adjournment is for the Deputy Premier as Minister for Education, and the action I seek is that the Deputy Premier join me early next year before the first sitting week of 2024 for the opening of two brand new schools in Truganina. In 2024 both campuses of Bemin Secondary College and Warreen Primary School in Truganina will finally open their doors to hundreds of students, another two of the 20-something schools that our government has built in Wyndham – right? – over the last five years.

As the minister knows, it has been a very long journey leading up to these schools becoming a reality, and indeed the opening of these two schools at this site in Truganina North will represent a major, major win for my local community. Two years ago parents in the Elements estate community lobbied hard for this site to be used for a school after the Catholic education office walked away from purchasing it. What would have otherwise become more housing units in an already heavily developed estate is now going to be not only home to one school but home to two, Warreen Primary School and the junior campus for Bemin Secondary College, making it easier for parents to make the morning drop-off, something made even more easy by the onsite kinder at Warreen Primary – very good news indeed. So I would like the minister to see for himself the impact our government has made for not only kids at this school, who will benefit from a brand new school with modern learning facilities and wonderful teachers, but the community, who have really rallied behind these schools and won.