Local Schools Community Fund
As Labor Member for Perth, I have been proud to support 19 schools secure Government funds for small projects.
Ashfield
Ashfield Primary School - $10,000
This project will enable Ashfield Primary to remove fencing from the Early Childhood Education area to extend the playground and create a large nature play area.
Bassendean
Anzac Terrace Primary School - $5,000
Students and staff will benefit from new air-conditioners in wet areas, which in the middle of summer and winter these areas are stifling hot and bitterly cold.
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Bassendean Primary School - $10,000
New adventure playground equipment will be installed for pre-primary and Year 1 students in the Early Childhood Area at Bassendean Primary School.
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Casa Mia Montessori Community School -
$2,000
Casa Mia’s school iPads will be updated, enabling the Casa Mia Education Technology Plan, embedding the language of STEM into the school practices and allowing students to use digital technology rather than just consume it.
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Cyril Jackson Senior Campus -
$5,510
Cyril Jackon’s students are largely refugee youth from diverse backgrounds. The school offers a driving grant program for students without the means to pay for lessons. It runs in conjunction with a Keys for Life program. To fund the driving grant the school runs a second hand clothing stall, which will be expanded through the Local Schools Community Fund.
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St Michael's School - $5,000
St Michael’s School requires storage facilities for equipment tied to Spare Parts Play with an alternative type of positive and imaginative play.
Bayswater
Bayswater Primary School - $15,000
Bayswater Primary is 125 years old with 425 students and growing. The current covered assembly area is open on the sides, exposing children and parents to the elements in wet and cold or hot weather. The assembly area is used for weekly assemblies, eating lunch, recess and lunchtime play, PE lessons, performances, visiting presentations and as a flexible space for various lessons. Enclosing the area will provide a safe, secure and comfortable space for students, families and community.
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Hillcrest Primary School -
$5,000
Installing airconditioning at Hillcrest Primary School has been a goal since 2013 when staff and students were surveyed to prioritise projects around the school. Currently the classrooms have evaporative systems which are not functioning optimally. The three classrooms that have refrigerated systems have reported improved student outcomes. Energy will be conserved with heating and cooling with solar panel installation.
Bedford
Chisholm Catholic College - $1,000
Students have asked for more inclusive activities that all students can engage in during recess and lunch breaks, which will provide a safe space to enjoy recreation time, develop new friendships and increase belonging.
Coolbinia
Sir David Brand School - $20,000
These funds will allow the construction of a sensory playground for the school’s 50 students. In this playground there would be a water-based play area, a sensory feel-and-touch garden, a couple of bike tracks with signage, a quiet seating area for listening to music.
Eden Hill
Eden Hill Primary School - $10,000
The school is looking to expand the nature play structures currently placed around the main oval at Eden Hill Primary School. The funding will develop a functional, fun and immersive play area for the students of Eden Hill to use during their free time but also to be challenging enough that teachers can incorporate into physical education programs.
Inglewood
St Peter's Primary School - $10,000
St Peter’s will refurbish the outdoor area and update existing areas to incorporate nature play - a wooden fort, climbing nets, balance logs, wooden car and a sleeper balance wall.
Leederville
Aranmore Catholic College - $11,490
This project will resurface four Multi-Purpose Outdoor Sports Courts. Two courts are cracking extensively and require crack repair, cleaning, application of fibreglass mesh, and two coats of acrylic topcoat. Two courts are showing significant wear and tear. These courts already have fibreglass mesh, so only require crack repair, cleaning, and two coats of acrylic topcoat.
Maylands
Maylands Peninsula
Primary School -
$10,000
Maylands Peninsula is a growing school with student set to hit 740 by 2023 as a result of in-fill housing and multi-storey dwellings being constructed in the Maylands area. Currently, individual year levels are rostered onto the two playground spaces on different days of the week to alleviate space and safety concerns. This project will allow the school to expand its play equipment to accommodate more students.
Morley
Hampton Park Primary School -
$10,000
Over the past 18 months the School’s P&C has been fundraising to provide shelter over a very large area of limestone steps that lead from the school buildings to the oval. The steps are used by student and parents as seating when events are held on the oval. The grant will allow the school to install shade structures to protect these areas from the sun.
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Morley Primary School - $10,000
A new Nature Learning Space at Morley Primary School will encompass several zones: a Yarning Circle and open frame structure to support language development and communication with a heavy emphasis on Indigenous cultural understandings; cubbies and climbing structures; and a sensory area including music making equipment. This grant will allow the project to commence with the creation of the Yarning Circle.
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Weld Square Primary School - $10,000
The Weld Square Primary School Library will be refurbished, with updates to the seating and shelving, refreshing the space and making it a more appealing environment where the students can read and learn.
Mount Hawthorn
Mount Hawthorn Primary School - $10,000
The outdoor classroom and playscape project has evolved from the School’s Master Plan and consultation within the school community. This project focuses on purchasing and installation of:
• A magnetic sensory and teaching wall.
• Teepee
• Stilts
These vital items are required to provide visual, sensory and imaginary play, learning, and support that foster opportunities for inclusion and integration.
Mount Lawley
Mount Lawley Primary School - $10,000
This project will see construction of a nature play space using a "Sunken Ship" theme, incorporating climbing and swinging elements and sand. This project incorporates items that stimulate imaginary play and help children to meet their developmental milestones. This construction will provide support for our students in the area of mental health and well being.
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Mount Lawley Senior High School - $10,000
Mount Lawley Senior High School will create a gallery space designed to stimulate creative appreciation and display of student artwork within a specialist building to amplify the exhibition and professional presentation of student artwork for student and community enjoyment.
Noranda
Camboon Primary School - $10,000
Camboon Primary School has undertaken a range of improvement activities in outdoor areas in recent years, creating more outdoor learning and play spaces. A shed has been built for spare-parts play equipment and two nature play areas have been created. Staff and students were surveyed about what they would like included. This grant will increase equipment for senior students and special needs students, including spare-parts play.
North Perth
North Perth Primary School - $10,000
North Perth Primary is looking to improve students’ internal strengths and resilience through access to structured outdoor play areas and nature-based play by developing structured play areas to provide opportunities for play, and construct nature-based play for K-PP students.
