Open - Bakewell Primary School

BUILDING THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION (BER)

Bakewell Primary received Commonwealth funding under the BER program. For the National School Pride Program the school received $200,000 and for the Primary Schools for the 21st Century the amount was $3 Million.

National School Pride Program

The projects completed under this program covered safety fences at the front of the school and in the Preschool, new carpets in the library and admin block, internal refurbishment of the staffroom, a covered walk way to connect the Preschool to the Transition Block, painting of all student toilet blocks, shade structure over play equipment and two Interactive Whiteboards.

Primary Schools for the 21st Century

This program gave the school the opportunity to build two much needed resources - a new classroom block and a larger assembly area to comfortably accommodate the whole school. The new classroom block has state of the art technology and houses four classroms with Interactive Whiteboards and laptop wall cages and a Computer Lab for whole class Information Technology lessons. The lab boasts an Interactive Whiteboard and 28 computers for access by all students and classes in the school and provides increased IT learning opportunities for our students.

The assembly area concept includes a fanstastic all weather roof (with lighting for evening use) over the two basketball courts and an outdoor stage facility with high quality audio and vision equipment. This stage area will enhance the school's teaching spaces for the Arts programs eg Music, Drama and Music Instrumental programs and provides the school community with an excellent resource for whole school and community functions.

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