Thursday 5 December 2024

The Allan Labor Government is supporting Mansfield Primary School meet growing student enrolments, with a state-of-the-art multi-storey classroom to be in place from the start of the 2025 school year.

Member for Northern Victoria Jaclyn Symes announced the new double storey classroom, which is being delivered as part of the Labor Government’s $152.4 million investment in additional classrooms to help address enrolment pressures created by the state’s expanding population.

The multi-storey relocatable classrooms will be installed and open for students in 11 selected schools by Term 1, 2025, providing capacity for an extra 775 students statewide. These add to the 54 multi-storey relocatable buildings allocated to 28 schools earlier this year, which are providing capacity for an additional 4,975 students.

The multi-storey classrooms incorporate the latest innovations to provide teachers and students with modern learning environments, including double-glazed windows and improved insulation to reduce heat loss, special wall and ceiling linings to reduce internal noise reverberation, energy efficient design and external window shades.

For the 2025 school year, the government has invested $152.4 million to deliver additional classrooms in areas of need, as part of the Relocatable Buildings Program. The program will fund the construction and delivery of 163 newly manufactured buildings to address enrolment growth.

The Labor Government is building the Education State, so every Victorian child gets the opportunity for a world class education and every community has access to a contemporary school.

Since 2014, the Victorian Government has invested $16.9 billion in building new schools and upgrading more than 2,200 schools. 

This investment will ensure every child has access to modern learning spaces to get a great education, no matter where in Victoria they live.

Quotes attributable to Member for Northern Victoria Jaclyn Symes

“Enrolment demand is consistently growing at Mansfield Primary and that’s why we are delivering this new multi-storey building to give students the space they need to continue their world class learning.”

“These state-of-the-art classrooms provide a cost-effective, fast and flexible option to respond to the growing needs of local schools.”

“We’re delivering modern, multi-storey classrooms because we know that quality infrastructure gives our students and teachers the learning environment, they need to achieve their best.”