Thursday, 6 February 2020

Bayswater electorate schools

Mr TAYLOR (Bayswater) (10:05): It is fantastic to be back in this place to talk about my favourite topic: education. Last year there were close to 200 visits to local schools across the Bayswater electorate and millions of dollars of extra investment. There are new buildings, new ovals, new toilets and everything else in between. There has never been more happening in the electorate of Bayswater at our local schools.

It was fantastic getting to know local school communities and the principals and to learn what makes them tick. Of course there were some new initiatives last year: one of them was the Bayswater primary school writing competition. There were about 800 entries across 10 schools, and I promised them that I would read each of the winners out, so here we go: Bayswater North Primary School, Jordan Knapp and Lydia Luri; Bayswater Primary, Gowri Prabhu and Julian Robinson; Bayswater West Primary, Maddy Gunn and Oscar Baron; Boronia Heights Primary, Vylette Girgis; Boronia K–12, Maggie Shores and Samuel Majok; Boronia West Primary, Fiona Huynh; Great Ryrie Primary, Terrwyn Smith and Nathan Mack; Our Lady of Lourdes Primary, lndianna Gilson and Alex Moore; St Joseph’s Primary, Orlando Aliotta and Emma Lewis; and The Basin Primary, Paige Draffin and Roy Lee.

The overall winners from grades 4 to 6 were Vylette Girgis from Boronia Heights Primary School and lndianna Gilson from Our Lady of Lourdes. The overall winners from prep to grade 3 were Lydia Luri from Bayswater North Primary and Julian Robinson from Bayswater Primary.

Every single student got a certificate for their trouble and the overall winners got $200 worth of library books to go to their school as a donation on behalf of their fantastic contributions.

I will always stand up for local schools. We will continue to kick on with the big challenges of making sure the education starts right in my electorate of Bayswater—2020 is going to be even bigger. Here we go.