Awaba Public School

Awaba School serves a small urban village on the South Western fringe of Newcastle. It has at present thirty-seven students from Kindergarten to Year 6. Awaba School currently has 2 classes, a composite K/1/2 of sixteen students and a composite 3/4/5/6 of twenty-one students. The school is a happy, quiet place where all students are treated as individuals and are encouraged to achieve at their own level of personal excellence. Awaba School has 2 permanent teachers as well as a part-time teacher who takes Library, Craft, French and HSIE. Awaba Public School has a focus on providing quality programs in Literacy and Mathematics. The school prides itself on its ability to integrate the teaching of these and other programs with computers and other technology, using these as a tool for investigation, creation and publishing. Awaba School has an active Parents and Citizens and is well supported by a community which is very proud of the school and what it achieves. Awaba School provides opportunities for all students in a variety of sports through a comprehensive PE program which aims at teaching the children the skills and rules needed to play major games. The school enters teams in local sporting competitions annually.

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Demountables

Cooler Classrooms

This school is currently being assessed against the current Cooler Classroom funding guidelines.

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Program

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Planning

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LED Upgrade

The $157.8 million LED Lighting Upgrade Program will install new LED lights in up to 1,000 public schools across NSW. This means reduced operating costs for schools and improved learning environments and outcomes for our students.

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Program

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Completed

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Maintenance

To ensure the safety, reliability and longevity of our schools, every school across NSW receives maintenance. The Department undertakes preventative and routine maintenance every year, and repairs as needed. The Department also reviews the planned maintenance program for each school every year and reviews those items that are predicted to require work to help prolong the life of the school buildings and facilities.

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Demountables

Demountables have been part of the NSW education system for many decades and will continue to be used across the state. Demountable classrooms are modern, air-conditioned rooms that provide students and teaching staff with excellent quality facilities. The learning spaces have the same range of technology that is available in permanent spaces. We review school accommodation needs each year, looking at changing enrolment patterns and other factors to prepare for the upcoming school year. This helps to identify schools that need new demountables and schools where they can removed. Most demountable movement takes place between October and February and we report our annual demountable statistics each April. Additional demountable installations can occur outside this window to support capital works and maintenance projects in schools or emergency responses to natural disasters.

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We recognise the Ongoing Custodians of the lands and waterways where we work and live. We pay respect to Elders past and present as ongoing teachers of knowledge, songlines and stories. We strive to ensure every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learner in NSW achieves their potential through education.

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