Lakes Entrance schools
Tom McINTOSH (Eastern Victoria) (09:45): I had a great time in Lakes Entrance last week, out with all things education amongst the community, and I had the privilege and the honour of cutting the ribbon at the new kindergarten based on the location of the Lakes Entrance Primary School. It was great to have families, the committee, educators – everyone – come along and really get around what is such a great investment in our youngest people in Lakes Entrance. Not only that, after opening the kinder – out of the budget – the next morning I had the good fortune of sharing the news with Simon Prior, principal at Lakes Entrance Primary, who has done a great job in the school in the around six years he has been there. NAPLAN results are going really strongly. On top of that the state government is contributing $6.6 million of capital funding for new buildings in the school, which is fantastic. I was also fortunate to be able to drop up to the secondary college; there is half a million dollars for the Lakes Entrance Secondary College as well. We know how critically important education is for developing our future emerging generations, and in Lakes Entrance we are doing that.