Dubbo West Public School is gearing up to move its infants section to the primary school site mid-year as a major project progresses.
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The NSW Department of Education is establishing a multimillion-dollar specialist school for students with disabilities and additional support needs.
Stage one of the project includes the relocation of the infants school 700 metres down the road in East Street to the primary school site.
Stage two will then convert that site, located opposite Dubbo College Delroy Campus, into the new Networked Specialist School (NSS).
Stage one’s construction of new buildings for the kindergarten to Year 2 students is well underway at the primary school.
School principal Eileen Day reported the infants block was progressing with “plans to move during the last two weeks of term 2”, in an update in the school newsletter at the start of April.
Before then a new preschool is also expected to open on the primary school site.
“The building works are powering ahead with our new preschool set to open (pending licensing) at the beginning of next term,” Ms Day said in the newsletter.
The infants school’s 2018 Easter Hat parade was the last time the activity would take place at the site, before the big move down the road.
Dubbo West infants assistant principal Margot Jasprizza said it was a special day.
“It was a lovely time to engage with family and community,” she said then.
“It’s exciting to be merging as one site.”
Announced in 2015, the construction of a new state-of-the-art NSS will include four classrooms catering for up to 40 special needs students from kindergarten to Year 12, the department’s website reports.
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Within the project are associated support facilities including a gym, special programs facility, administration, and specialist services such as speech and occupational therapists.
The design for the NSW will make the most of the existing buildings, courtyards and trees and will create an extremely modern and versatile facility, the website reports.
The Centre for Effective Reading will be relocated from Buninyong Public School to the Dubbo NSS, the website reports.
The call for tenders for stage two has closed and are being reviewed and the next step will be to award the construction contract.
Faye Wheeler
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