UPGRADE works are underway at Belvedere Park Primary School. Works at the school are set to total $1.4 million. Upgrades include the extension and refurbishment of existing classrooms, new toilets, and repairs to the roofs. Carrum MP Sonya Kilkenny said “these local upgrades are part of the school building boom that is happening right across Victoria.” “Upgrading Belvedere Park Primary School will give local students access to great classrooms and facilities, because you can’t deliver a first rate education in second rate classroom,” she said. Marradon Constructions is undertaking the project, which is projected to be finished October 2020. First…
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Police are appealing for witnesses to a car crash in Frankston South last night. Police received reports two cars were travelling north along-side each other prior to one of the cars crashing into a tree on Frankston-Flinders Road about 7.45pm. The sole occupant of a black Honda was entrapped in the car and had to be extracted by emergency services before being taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The driver, a 20-year-old Frankston South man, is yet to be spoken to by police. The sole occupant of the second car, a black Subaru Forrester, was interviewed by police at…
MORDIALLOC College principal Michelle Roberts has been recognised with the top prize at an education awards ceremony last week. Ms Roberts took home the award for the most outstanding secondary principal and the Lindsay Thompson award at the 2019 Victorian Education Excellence Awards. The Lindsay Thompson award recognises “an award winner whose contribution has been judged to be the most outstanding to Victorian government school education.” Ms Roberts told guests at the ceremony in her acceptance speech that “it is certainly a huge honour to win this award”. “It is a privilege to be Principal of Mordialloc College and a…
FRANKSTON libraries are set to host spooky storytime sessions to celebrate Halloween. The storytime sessions will feature face painting and craft sessions. The mayor Michael O’Reilly said “Frankston Library and Carrum Downs Library will be the place for trick or treating this Halloween with craft, stories and fun for the whole family.” “We encourage the kids, and the adults if they like, to dress up in their scariest costume while our Family Literacy officers read spooky stories and you can even make your own trick or treat bag to take home,” he said. Bookings for the free event by phoning…
A FRANKSTON South children’s author has had her work published in a Halloween anthology. Sharna Carter has been writing for children for five years. Earlier this year she entered her short story The Butcher’s Boy into a competition, and it was selected to be published in an anthology titled Spooktacular Stories: Thrilling Tales for Brave Kids. “When I first saw the theme for this anthology, I felt nervous because I’d never written a scary story before,” Ms Carter said. “The first thing I decided on was the setting. When I was a child my Dad had his own butcher shop…