Tuesday, 18 February 2020

Mordialloc electorate schools

Mr RICHARDSON (Mordialloc) (13:54): Recently I had the great pleasure of joining three incredible school communities as we celebrated milestones in their school development and upgrades to their school facilities. The first cab off the rank was Chelsea Heights Primary School, a $4.5 million building upgrade—10 new learning spaces, administrative building and outdoor learning spaces. Jane Satchwell, the principal there, is an incredible leader in our community. To see the start of demolition works is a great milestone for Chelsea Heights.

At Edithvale Primary School down the road, we celebrated the opening of their STEM centre. This was a great celebration, with principal James Whitla and his amazing crew at Edithvale Primary. What a great celebration, seeing the students doing robotics in their science lab coats and doing that STEM education that we know is so important. Of course, they have got their art technology centre on the go very soon, which is so very exciting.

Then, the third cab off the rank—amazing—was Yarrabah School, a complete rebuild of our specialist school in the Mordialloc electorate. We are rebuilding this brick by brick, and by September 2020 we will finish off this school with a more than $20 million investment. We were there to open their administrative buildings, an amazing outcome for this incredible community. Matthew Harris and his wonderful parent community have led this project from start to finish. We are looking forward to opening up the secondary facilities, the life skill buildings, very soon. I am counting down the days to reopening the full new Yarrabah School.