Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Kew electorate schools

Jess WILSON (Kew) (13:10): School is back, and it was a privilege to visit both Sacred Heart Primary School and Kew East Primary School to speak with students about the importance of leadership and present them with their leadership badges. I would like to congratulate Alaia and Joel from Sacred Heart on their roles as school captains. To all the students at Sacred Heart who have taken on leadership roles this year: it is very exciting to hear your plans. Congratulations too to Leah, Alastair, Luke and Jordan from Kew East Primary on your roles as school ambassadors for 2024. And to all the class captains, house captains, music captains, library monitors and school leaders at KEPS, a big congratulations. I trust that the year ahead will be full of exciting challenges, student-led initiatives and wonderful memories.

It was also fantastic to welcome more than 100 grade 6 students from Balwyn North Primary School and a group of grade 6 students from Ruyton Girls’ School to Parliament for a tour and role-play. Students learned about the history of the Victorian Parliament, the structure of our system of government and the everyday workings here on Spring Street. I would like to thank all the students for their enthusiasm and for keeping me on my toes with their very insightful questions. I was incredibly impressed by their depth of knowledge and their ability to grasp quite complicated concepts. The students’ passion about the working of our Parliament and the institution of government gives me great confidence that the future of our democracy is in safe hands.