Woy Woy to receive $3 million buildings

Woy Woy Public School has received $3 million in Federal Government funding under the Building in Education Revolution program.

Principal Ms Ona Buckley said the changes to be seen as a result of the funding would be "amazing".

"Principals are asked to put forward projects their school need after consulting with the school community through the P&C and the school staff," Ms Buckley said.

"The projects are then endorsed by the school education director before they are registered online to be assessed and approved to be completed.

"It is so exciting."

According to Ms Buckley, the school has asked for old demountable classrooms to be removed and replaced with the new Modular Demountable Rooms (double classrooms). "These are very modern classrooms with wet areas, reading areas and computer areas," Ms Buckley said.

"They come with verandahs and covered walkways plus all drainage, electricity and computer cabling.

"Our school would need four units to house eight classes plus a special education demountable for our intellectually mild and autism class.

"This would give our students and teachers very up to date, comfortable and functional working and learning environments."

Other projects proposed for the school include the construction of a toilet block near the new classrooms, expansion of the library, a bus shelter between the library and administration buildings and a storage shed for sporting equipment.

The Federal Government has committed funding of $14.7 billion over three years to provide new facilities and refurbishments in Australian schools through the Building in Education Revolution program.

"This is certainly a huge amount of requests and work to be done and we still have more to decide on, Ms Buckley said.

"A lot of the work will be required to be done in the school terms but the end result will certainly be worth it."

Newsletter, 12 Mar 2009 Ona Buckley, Woy Woy Public School