State Government concept designs for seven more school projects in Adelaide’s western suburbs
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Designs have been unveiled for two of the schools which had their zones expanded when Adelaide High’s was cut.
Hundreds of families were angered last year when the State Government pushed them out of the CBD school zone into those for Underdale High, Plympton International College and Springbank Secondary.
Underdale High’s $20 million project includes a new performing arts building with a “performance space” for 150 people and “partially retractable seating”. It will also have a canteen.
There will be a new two-storey admin building as well, and refurbishments to create four science laboratories and a uniform shop.
The gym and “automotive” buildings will be both be extended, the latter to allow for metal work classes.
Plympton International College will have a $3 million makeover with a new, two-storey performing arts centre and a range of refurbishments.
They are among seven more western suburbs schools for which designs were unveiled today, with projects worth $60 million in total.
It comes after The Advertiser revealed the concepts for the $13.8 million expansion of Brighton Secondary School.
The most striking of the new designs is for a performing arts and music centre at Ocean View College that will have aluminium screening to be illuminated at night. The centre will have a recording studio, control room and “retractable elevated seating”.
The Taperoo school’s $5 million upgrade will also cover refurbishments to create new art and digital design rooms.
Henley High School’s $12 million project includes “feature screening that will act as the gateway to the school”, plus a new administration centre and other new buildings for science, arts, and home economics.
The centrepiece of Hallett Cove School’s $10 million revamp will be a “full refurbishment and expansion of the middle school building”, which will include two food technology laboratories and two visual art studios.
There are also concept designs for Adelaide Secondary School of English and Brighton Primary School, which are both in line for $5 million projects.
Education Minister John Gardner said the projects would begin in the coming months.
A year ago, Mr Gardner announced the shared CBD zone for Adelaide High and Adelaide Botanic High would be reduced, arguing the former Labor Government’s expansion of it was unsustainable.
Underdale, Plympton and Springbank are all well under enrolment capacity.
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Underdale High School – $20m
•New performing arts building with performance space for 150 people and partially retractable seating. Will also include a canteen and classrooms.
•New two-storey administrative building next to student services.
•An upgrade of the main school entry and refurbishment of reception area and staffroom.
•Refurbishment of classrooms, including a textiles space.
•Refurbishment to create four science laboratories with teacher preparation, breakout spaces and a uniform shop.
•Refurbishment of the home economics building and the technology building.
•An extension to the gymnasium to house “specialist performance equipment”.
•An extension and reconfiguring of the automotive building to accommodate metal work.
•Demolition of “ageing infrastructure”.
Henley High School – $12m
•A new administration centre adjoining the main two-storey building
•A “feature screening” that will act as the gateway to the school.
•New buildings with classrooms, science, arts, and home economics areas, and teacher preparation and storage areas.
Hallett Cove School – $10m
•A full refurbishment and expansion of the middle school building, with two food technology laboratories, two visual art studios, classrooms, common areas and additional staff support spaces. It will include an adjoining outdoor learning areas.
•A full refurbishment of the home economics building to create four “specialist learning areas”.
•A new modular building to increase the size of the activity hall.
•Minor refurbishments to some buildings.
•Demolition of “ageing infrastructure”.
Ocean View College – $5m
•A new performing arts and music centre with a recording studio, control room, retractable elevated seating and flexible practice, performance and learning areas.
•The centre will have illuminated aluminium screening at night.
•Refurbished space for new art laboratories and digital design classrooms, “connected contemporary learning spaces”, teacher preparation and breakout areas.
•Demolition of “ageing infrastructure”.
Adelaide Secondary School of English – $5m
•A new building with classrooms, an art room, student support services, teacher preparation space and other “amenities”.
•A new groundskeeper shed and a new garden shelter.
•Demolition of “ageing infrastructure”.
Brighton Primary School – $5m
•A new modular building with eight classrooms, one “serviced learning area”, breakout space, a canteen, teacher preparation space, toilets, “withdrawal spaces” and large decks.
•Minor refurbishment of the upper floor of a building.
Plympton International College – $3m
•A new building with a performing arts centre on the ground floor and music centre on the first floor.
•Refurbishment to create visual arts and other classrooms.
•Refurbishment to create a “bilingual learning area”.
•Demolition of “ageing infrastructure”.
