Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Wattle Park Primary School

Richard WELCH (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (19:05): (1309) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Education, and I seek that he address a safety issue at Wattle Park Primary School. Wattle Park Primary School has a pedestrian exit that exits out onto Warrigal Road. Warrigal Road is a very busy road, and in the past a bus shelter stood opposite that exit and acted as a barrier to stop children running out onto the road, whether they were distracted, boisterous or for any other reason. That bus stop has now been removed and therefore so has any barrier between the exit and busy Warrigal Road. This presents a quite urgent and immediate safety issue for both the children and for the drivers along Warrigal Road. The school principal Mr Steve Donohue has worked very hard on safety within the school, but he has expressed significant concern about this as an exit. The action I seek from the minister is to urgently install a 2-metre mesh fence as a barrier outside the gate and to work with any other departments necessary to ensure that this is done promptly.