Page 909 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 27 February 2013
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Earlier this month I visited Erindale College and toured the facilities—that innovative connection of college with the theatre and the Erindale leisure centre. I thank Michael Hall for that visit.
I popped into Hawker Primary School on the 15th of this month and I really did notice the design of that school; its open space for learning was really good to see. It is a design of the 1970s—and it is very much a 1970s design—but it works really well. The principal there, Mandy Kalyvas, has done a good job.
At Calwell Primary School, I had the pleasure of meeting with the prime minister, deputy prime minister, speaker and cabinet of the schools parliament. I was at Calwell Primary School with Mary Durkin and Alasdair Roy to launch the report on talking to students about bullying and disability. I want to thank Linda Neeson again for the great work that she is doing with the school.
On the 22nd of this month we opened the new hydrotherapy pool, a $3 million investment at Malkara. Jennie Lindsay, the principal, who has been there for four years or so, has done some great work with the school. The hydrotherapy pool builds on a legacy from families of 30 years ago when they built that first hydrotherapy pool. To see the absolute joy and happiness of the kids when they use that pool was quite special.
I visited St Anthony’s primary school on the 22nd of this month and had the pleasure of presenting students with their week awards. They have an assembly every week where they give weekly awards to their students. I also toured the BER facilities. Greg Walker is a fairly newly appointed principal there. I look forward to visiting more of our Catholic education schools and independent schools. And, for Mr Doszpot’s interest, I will be attending the centenary mass, I think, in a week or two, to celebrate the Catholic education system.
At Kingsford Smith School, I joined the Prime Minister and the federal Attorney-General when they announced the National Children’s Commission. We had a great opportunity to tour that school with the Prime Minister; the principal, Jan Day, and the deputy principals were quite excited about that.
I visited Lake Tuggeranong College on the 25th, earlier this week. I toured the college. They had a careers fair expo; I was shown around that with reps from the SRC and Julie Murkins. Again, she is a fairly newly appointed principal who is doing a good job. It was great to see that the careers fair was well supported by many there. And my attention was drawn to the school honour roll board, where I noticed the name of one of my staff who was on the board at the college there. It was quite exciting that the current SRC could see what students could do. (Time expired)
The Assembly adjourned at 7.10 pm.
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