By Jessica Micallef
Gisborne Primary School is being upgraded, brick by brick.
Principal Julie Soutter said the welcome upgrades had been a long time coming.
“The school did start to grow rather rapidly with the increase in housing subdivisions around the area and since then it certainly needed it,” she said.
An $11.6 million upgrade project started in January with work on stage one, which will include three new classrooms.
Macedon MP Mary-Anne Thomas visited the school recently.
She said the state government had invested $53 million to upgrade schools throughout the Macedon Ranges since 2014.
“These upgrades are part of a major investment in schools right across Macedon,” Ms Thomas said.
“Gisborne students deserve access to state-of-the-art facilities – that’s why the Andrews Labor government has invested over $14 million in Gisborne schools since 2014.”
Maddison Architects have been appointed to build stage two of the project, including demolishing the current under-sized gym and replacing it with extra classrooms and building a competition gymnasium.
Construction on stage one is expected to be completed by June.
