Facilities News 

Dr Denise Clarke              Frances Hansen

Capital Works Manager     Facilities Manager

Capital Works Report

Traffic disruption in Emu Parade & Landy Road.

The cement slab for the new Yaluk Building will be poured by trucks parked in Emu parade (Thursday15th  or Friday 16th December) and Landy Road (Monday 19th or Tuesday 20th December). There will be traffic wardens on duty  however it will become congested. Avoid the area, particularly if you are in a hurry.

Sensory Room:

Bloomfield Hall  - which was a modified shelter shed that had served its purpose over years  - was demolished during the last fortnight.  The students were enthralled by the excavator biting away at the building until it was demolished. 

The sensory room will abut the climbing gym and be approximately the same size. The rest of the space will have a softer play surface.  Contractors next step is excavation of the area, followed by inserting screw piles and pouring the concrete. There will a lot more work completed by the time we get back from the holidays.

Yaluk Building is moving along well. Photos from Day 63 show the progress.

The framing has gone in for the first concrete pour which should be on Thursday or Friday 15/16th December followed the second on Monday or Tuesday 19th/20 December and the third on Wednesday/Thursday 21/22nd December.  This means that the concrete will be curing during the December January Builders shut down period.

Facilities Managers Report

Transition Week and 2023 Parking 

During transition week all students will move to their new classrooms.

This means there may be a change to student pick-up/drop-off zones for parents.

• Primary students (Rooms 1,2,3, 6, & 8) may be dropped off in the Admin Carpark Landy Rd.
• Primary & Middle Students (Rooms 4,5,7,9-13) may be dropped in Bamburgh St Parents Carpark
• Middle Students (Rooms 14-17) -drop off through the gate in the staff carpark (Landy Road)
• Secondary Students can be dropped in Bamburgh St.  Please take note of parking signs.  Please avoid parking opposite a parked car –  it makes it difficult for the buses to exit safely.

Some individual students may have negotiated a different entry/exit point. Please re-confirm with your child’s teacher.

There is going to be a busy end of 2022 & start of 2023. The following works have been confirmed to be supplied & installed:

• Port Shipping Containers
  • 2 containers with side roller doors in the bus loop on Bamburgh St on Monday 12 December
• Joe’s Fencing 
  • Exterior & interior Bus loop fence & gates
    • Commencing Tuesday 21 December 2022
  • Secondary area fence & gate
    • Commencing early 2023
  • HoL & Kitchen Garden dividing fence & install 2 gates one to each area
    • Commencing early 2023
• Windows 
  • New Middle School Building (in walkway)
    • Frames to be installed Monday 12 December. Measured for glass to be installed during term break
  • Primary toilets
    • Windows are being replaced & repaired in male primary toilets

Other works expected to be completed prior to or during term break:

• Camvex to upgrade 2 CCTV cameras as they have become unserviceable. 
• Installation of 9 external speakers with protective cages
• Grooming of artificial turf 
• Installation of a larger trampoline in Playground 4. 
• Repair of 2 trampoline nets Playgrounds 1 & 2
• Installation of new shade sails in Playground 5 
• Erection of poles & shade sails in Middle School Outdoor learning space (adjacent to Middle School parent gates) 
• Installation of the shade sail in the Secondary Outdoor Learning Space (adjacent to the Secondary parent gate)

The school is still awaiting the outcome of the VSBA Planned Maintenance Program funding for the re-stumping and repair of floors in classrooms and the Admin corridor in the main building, also the placement of overflows in the box gutters in some of the Secondary portables.