Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Greenvale electorate schools funding

Iwan WALTERS (Greenvale) (10:43): I rise to celebrate the new investment that last week’s budget has made into Greenvale’s schools, particularly Meadow Heights Primary School, a fantastic local school that serves our community with such dedication. I want to particularly thank acting principal Jacqui Lucas and recently retired principal Margaret Leach for their sustained advocacy and support of my advocacy on their behalf to ensure that we are able to provide funding to upgrade Meadow Heights Primary School, which is going to make such a positive difference to the learning environment and the play spaces that students at that wonderful school can enjoy, particularly at the community hub, where Salwa and the team provide such a welcoming environment for very often recently arrived migrant and refugee families in our community. This funding will help to open up that community hub and to open up Meadow Heights Primary School for community use and enjoyment, and so I am really excited to see that new money in the budget.

Similarly, there was new money for Greenvale Primary School to commence its planning process towards an upgrade. It just builds on the very significant investment that this government has made in new and upgraded schools across my electorate, whether it is Bethal Primary School, Mary Queen of Heaven, Aitken College, Kolbe Catholic College or of course the new Greenvale Secondary College, which opened this year.