With $4-million funding from the Education Department, Kedron State School is set to get a new three-storey learning centre.
With this new learning centre, Kedron Tree House, the school will be able to increase its capacity as more students are expected to enrol in the school in the coming years.
Aside from the “tree house”, the multi-million allocation will also cover the cost of a covered link between the new building and the school, a new hire building to decant classes, the removal of existing temporary hire buildings on the oval and tennis courts, and the refurbishment of current facilities.
Artist’s impression of the Kedron Tree House. Photo credit: kedronss.eq.edu.au
Initial prep work that will facilitate the construction of the new building has already started in the early weeks of August 2018. Once the proposed design for the Kedron Tree House is approved, full-scale construction is set to begin later in the year.
Preparations for the construction site will include removal of three classrooms at the end of the term. With this, classes will be relocated to a temporary classroom located on the school tennis court and tennis coaching lessons will be conducted at the local tennis courts a short walk from school.
The Kedron Tree House is anticipated to be completed by 2020.
Preparing for 2020
Kedron State School is not the only one getting an upgrade in preparation for 2020. Kedron State High receives $5.1 million funding under the government’s “2020 Ready” Program. The funds will be used to to build a new two-storey learning centre with additional classrooms, a union kitchen, and an industrial kitchen.
Kedron State High is set to benefit from the State Government’s $250 million budget for the ‘2020 Ready Program.’
The program’ is helping schools across the state to build more infrastructure to accommodate the influx of students come 2020.
Kedron State High will be getting $5.1 million in funds, which will be used to build a new two-storey learning centre with additional classrooms, a union kitchen, and an industrial kitchen.
Other high schools that will receive funds from the ‘2020 Ready Program’ include:
Albany Creek SHS
Alexandra Hills SHS
Beenleigh SHS
Bremer SHS
Bribie Island SHS
Caboolture SHS
Cairns SHS
Cavendish Road SHS
Centenary Heights SHS
Centenary SHS
Chancellor State College
Cleveland District SHS
Coolum SHS
Ferny Grove SHS
Flagstone State Community College
Forest Lake SHS
Glenala SHS
Harristown SHS
Helensvale SHS
Highfields State Secondary College
Indooroopilly SHS
Ipswich State High School
James Nash SHS
Kawana Waters State College
Kedron SHS
Kelvin Grove State College
Laidley SHS
Lowood SHS
Mackay Northern Beaches SHS
Mansfield SHS
Maroochydore SHS
Marsden SHS
Meridan State College
Mount Gravatt SHS
Mountain Creek SHS
North Lakes State College
Ormeau Woods SHS
Pacific Pines SHS
Palm Beach-Currumbin SHS
Park Ridge SHS
Pimlico SHS
Pimpama State Secondary College
Proserpine SHS
Rochedale SHS
Southport SHS
Springfield Central SHS
Stretton State College
Sunshine Beach SHS
Tamborine Mountain SHS
The Gap SHS
Toolooa SHS
Trinity Bay SHS
Varsity College
Windaroo Valley SHS
Wynnum SHS
Yeppoon SHS
Education Minister Grace Grace said that the funds will accommodate additional students in the state’s high schools in 2020 following the two education reforms that took place in the past years.
“This funding is a major boost and it will mean more than $470 million has been invested by this Government over the period 2017-18 to 2019-20 to increase the capacity of our state secondary schools,” she said.
