Capital Building Works Updates
We have been fortunate enough to have been allocated $10.219m for an upgrade and modernisation of the school's main building. This ensures students are learning in an environment designed for delivering modern education.
As you may have seen, there has been quite a bit of movement regarding our Capital Building Works Project and progression towards demolition of the main building, ‘Block A’.
Over the holidays, John Staff Construction Services have set up their construction site.
From 7-14 January Asbestos was removed safely. We thank Jacqueline and the Their Care Out of School Hours Care Team for supporting families and students to attend a holiday program at Altona Primary School for the week.
Our students and teachers will have an opportunity to demonstrate our school value of resilience, as we work together over the next 18 months with limited play space. Our leadership team has worked hard behind the scenes to ensure alternative play spaces, including quiet club in the BER, the Envirodeck, as well as including the hall as a supervised play space. We are going to seek student captain input into our lunch and recess play options, and review throughout the year. We will also utilise our year 6 peer mediators in assisting in social interaction and play breaks.
There has been a wall built in the main building next to our Year 1 classrooms.
The Prep Playground has also been impacted and will be unavailable at different points
throughout term one, however we have allocated another playground to the preps to support their transition to the yard. The prep teachers will support the students in understanding that they can play across the school, and also have the options of playing in the designated prep area. The buddies will also assist them in the yard.
The full demolition is scheduled from 19 February and the projected demolition completion date is mid to late March.
I will continue to have fortnightly site meetings together with representatives from the VSBA (Victorian School Building Authority), AOA Architect team, and the John Staff Construction Services Team, and will update our community accordingly.
Come April 2024 we will have a state of the art learning facility. The Wembley PS Capital Works Project stages can be found on the VSBA
website: https://www.schoolbuildings.vic.gov.au/wembley-primary-school
Pictured below:
Wembley PS facade during pre-demolition stage, captured during site meeting 7.2.23
Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) approved renders
