Caldera School

Caldera SSP is a Specific Purpose school designed for students Years 7 to12 who display significant challenging behaviour. The school is a medium to long term program, which aims to support students' through to the completion of year 12 or transition into the workforce and wider community. The school is an alternative New South Wales Department of Education facility located in Tweed Heads South that has been created to meet the needs of students whose behaviour or emotional state has prevented them from being maintained in a regular school setting. In 2008, Caldera School commenced providing support to the Kamala, Child and Adolescent In-Patient Unit. Kamala is an acute mental health inpatient facility within the Richmond Mental Health Campus, co-located with the Lismore Base Hospital. The unit is for short term placements and provides diagnostic assessments and therapeutic programs for children and adolescents (12-17 yrs) with severe and/ or complex mental health needs.

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Demountables

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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Program

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Schools Renewal

The $240 million Schools Renewal Program aims to accelerate projects that will improve the amenity of schools and kick start local jobs for local communities. This is a co-funded program, with each school contributing up to 50 per cent of the project cost.

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Program

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Completed

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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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