The 2025-26 State Budget officially announced Yarra Glen Primary School as a recipient of the Capital Works Fund.
The local primary school will receive over $520,000 through the 2025-26 round of the Capital Works Fund.
The first project Yarra Glen Primary School will do with the state funding is upgrading toilets.
Principal Jeff de Villa said the idea of the toilet upgrade was raised through the voices of students.
“Initially, we’ve applied it for an upgrade of all our toilet blocks because our toilet blocks are quite old and run down,” he said.
“It’s been expressed by many students that toilets need to be upgraded.
“But there are other works that need to be completed throughout the school, which I just need to coordinate with the Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA).”
Yarra Glen Primary School has a good memory of the Capital Works Fund.
The school received the grant a few years ago to build an inclusive and accessible natural play space in 2021, and to install shade sails in 2022.
“We’re really excited with the capital works granted, really appreciative of the Department of Education and VSBA,” the principal said.
“It will be put forward for the students.”
