Mr J. BULL (Sunbury) — The adjournment matter I raise is for the Minister for Education, and the action I seek is that the minister commit funding to Sunbury Primary School from the Inclusive Schools Fund. I ask the minister to support the application to the Inclusive Schools Fund by Sunbury Primary School for an industrial yard based on the successful PlayPod design theory.

As members know, the Inclusive Schools Fund is a $10 million fund designed to help make Victoria the education state, providing Victorian government schools with quality new spaces and more inclusive facilities based on best practice research and design. The school is seeking funding for the development of an industrial yard within the existing school grounds, plus additional shrubs and ground work, including a large crawling pipe and basic modifications to an equipment shed.

Sunbury Primary School is housed in what was the Sunbury Industrial School, and it has been there since the mid-1860s. In acknowledging and respecting the history of the site, which has a quite sad past that I have spoken about before in the house, it is fitting that the school seeks to have a project which honours the memories of the industrial school and at the same time gives the students of today a happy place to flourish, grow and play together.

In developing the industrial yard, the school aims to improve children’s access to self-directed creative play, self-awareness and self-regulation, imagination and resilience, as well as social interactions, including negotiation, compromise and acceptance, inclusion and learning, wellbeing and confidence levels, leadership and teamwork, physical activity and enhanced school attendance. This project has broad community support, with the school already raising an impressive $20 000 in locally raised funds for this initiative. Once again, I ask the minister to fund this very important project and continue to make Victoria the education state.