Playground Update 

Our new playground will be proceeding to the ‘build’ stage in the coming weeks. However, we have had a slight change of date for when building will begin.

The building contractors were originally due to be onsite from July 13th, but this has now been changed to Friday 27th June. We have been assured that this should not impact the completion date of 21st July which is the first date of Term 3.

This will also mean that our back gate will now be closed from the morning of Friday 27th of June and will remain inaccessible for our community for the duration of the building process.

We have worked extensively with the Contract Administrators to minimise the impact this build will have both on student learning and on our community. Whilst the area directly around the build area will be fenced off, the fence design will ensure that classroom access will not be affected. There will be one area of the school (between Rooms 17 and Rooms 21) that will need to have an operator with a Stop/Go sign for times when machinery will be moving to ensure students/teachers/visitors will be supervised and kept safe, but machinery movement in this part of the site will be infrequent.

One major impact for our community will be that the rear or back gate to the school that leads to Northumberland Circuit will need to be closed for the duration of the build (i.e. from Friday 27th June to Monday 21st July). Our community that currently uses this gate for morning drop offs and afternoon pick ups will need to use the library or oval gate for the duration of the build. We do apologise for this unavoidable inconvenience.

We are very excited to be so close to getting a new playground space for our students and look forward to celebrating the build with you when it is complete.

        Warm regards