Ageing buildings at two Sunshine schools are in line for a facelift as the state government tips $27 million into school upkeep.
Sunshine College ($655,000) and Sunshine Heights Primary School ($421,000) will receive the funding following an independent audit revealed the buildings most in need of upkeep at Victorian government schools.
The government could not say if any Brimbank schools missed out on funding.
Sunshine College principal Tim Blunt said he expected the money would go into a pool to help build a new junior campus at West Sunshine.
The state government announced $10 million in its June budget to consolidate and help rebuild Sunshine College’s campuses.
“We’re a proud school that gets great results for our students in not-very-good facilities,” Mr Blunt said.
“We’re looking forward to getting great outcomes in new facilities – it’s all looking very bright for Sunshine College.”
The funding, which covers almost 330 buildings at 153 schools, is in addition to regular maintenance funding.
It has been a dual celebration for Sunshine College following “phenomenal” NAPLAN results.
Maths and numeracy teacher Yvonne Reilly said that in the past two years there had been a 34 per cent improvement in grammar and punctuation across the entire college when compared to the state average, and similar improvements in numeracy (33 per cent), reading (22 per cent), writing (20 per cent) and spelling (15 per cent).
“This means many of our students showed high relative growth in their learning between years 7 and 9,” she said.
“These are phenomenal results and we’re very proud of them.”
