Holidays end for one million Victorian students
Nearly one million Victorian children will head back to school on Tuesday, but there’s an added bonus for the state’s youngest public students — here are the children’s classics inside their free book bags.
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Nearly one million Victorian children will head back to school from Tuesday as nine new campuses open across Melbourne’s growth suburbs.
School holidays finally end for 992,400 children across the state — leaving parents either rejoicing or lamenting the end of the summer break.
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Among those pupils, almost 82,000 will begin their school journey at prep or foundation — more than 57,000 of those at a public school where they will receive a free library bag filled with books
“These prep bags will encourage a love of reading in children, so they get the most out of their education and the best start in life,” Education Minister James Merlino said.
A panel of experts picked engaging books with vibrant characters and illustrations in a bid to foster a love for reading in the state’s youngest students.
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Andy Griffiths’ hilarious ‘Frog on a log in a bog’ made the cut, so too did indigenous writer and author Sally Morgan’s ‘Where is Galah?’.
Children will read the stories of a young girl in a strange place in Irena Kobald’s ‘My Two Blankets’, and of a flightless penguin that loves the sky in ‘The Second Sky’ by Patrick Guest.
Public schools will educate about two in three of the Victoria’s students, while more government campuses will opened in time for the new school year.
Preston High will be the only campus of nine new schools not to open to students this week.
Storm damage and flooding hampered construction over the holiday period, forcing 125 Year 7 pupils and 10 teachers to start their year at TAFE.
Classes will run out of Melbourne Polytechnic for the first six weeks until fire services and ground floor work is completed.
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Other new schools include Prahran High, South Melbourne Park Primary, Dohertys Creek P-9 College in Truganina, Saltwater P-9 College in Point Cook, Pakenham Primary, Aitken Hill Primary in Cragieburn, Burnside Primary and Ashley Park Primary in Doreen.
The state’s school building boom will see 100 new schools opened over the next eight years.
Builders have already been employed to start work on 11 schools expected to open in 2020.
Mr Merlino wished “all students and teachers heading to school this year the very best”.
“We’re building a world-class education system so that every student can make the most of school and get the best start in life,” he said.
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