Huntingdale Primary School celebrates 30 years

30/11/07
Staff and students at Huntingdale Primary School today celebrated the school's 30-year anniversary with a special assembly and official opening of upgraded facilities.
Education and Training Minister Mark McGowan visited the school to mark the occasion and to view and launch the new facilities.
Mr McGowan said Huntingdale Primary School's 70 staff and 787 students appreciated working, teaching and learning in a significantly enhanced school environment.
"The new facilities include an upgraded administration area, new staff room, music room, library resource centre and extra toilets," he said.
"The purpose-built library resource centre is a fantastic building which is a huge improvement on the old library, which had become too small for the school's population.
"The new library holds more than 85,000 books and resources and a bank of computers. It is a major focal point for students.
"The librarian teacher helps students from across the school to learn important research skills using the centre."
Southern River MLA Paul Andrews said the new works were a fantastic addition to a wonderful school, which was firmly entrenched in the local community.
He said it was appropriate that many familiar faces from the school's 30-year history attended the celebrations, including one of the first principals Jim Hurst.
"Huntingdale Primary School is an integral part of the local community and I'm sure past and present staff and students have fond memories of school life," Mr Andrews said.
Mr Andrews acknowledged library assistant Val Honeyman, who had worked at Huntingdale Primary School since it first opened and provided an invaluable service to students and staff.
"In addition, Carol Whitfield will join Huntingdale Primary School next year as a junior primary teacher," he said.
"Mrs Whitfield first visited Huntingdale Primary School when it opened in 1977 with her young children in tow and they later joined the school as students."
The Minister said the State Government had spent more than $656,000 on the upgrade and Huntingdale Primary School Parents and Citizens' Association contributed a further $20,000.
"The Carpenter Government is using the State's strong economy to provide better education facilities for all young Western Australians," he said.
"This Government is spending more than $300million on capital works projects at existing schools across the State.
"We are spending a further $300million on school maintenance work, and have built planned or announced 43 new schools worth more than 400million."
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