Academic Excellence

City of Canning - Neighbourhood Walk

The City is undertaking a pilot community engagement project within Queens Park so they can learn about the Queens Park community and its aspirations for the suburb. During the first part of the project, the City is conducting a series of Neighbourhood Walks with Queens Park residents and stakeholders. Mr Rose (principal of St Joseph’s Primary), myself and a small group of students from St Joseph’s Primary School and St Norbert College were invited to attend a Neighbourhood Walk, along with some City of Canning staff, to assess neighbourhood walkability and discuss ideas to create a more vibrant Queens Park.

The students walked around the area surrounding both schools. They had many suggestions to improve the look of the roadside, lighting of the streets to make it safer at night and improve the area near the railway. The students were full of fantastic ideas to make Queens Park Reserve more inviting and better utilised. The City will be collating information given by the students to use as part of a project engagement report. Larger ideas for Queens Park will also be communicated internally across the City departments as a guide for future projects.

There will also be a community event, on Wednesday 8 April, where any ideas can be shared. Community members will then vote for the best idea and the winning idea will then be implemented.

I was very proud of the way all the students conducted themselves and worked together for the greater good of the community. They were definitely Prepared for All Good Works.

Mrs L Cardenia (Academic Excellence Coordinator)