A CENTRAL Victorian school hopes to provide its older students with better facilities thanks to a $1.28 million government grant.
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Castlemaine Steiner School will use the funding to construct specialist year seven and eight buildings, catering for technologies, computer and science, as well as gender neutral toilets.
Principal Danilo Paglialonga said it would equip the still-growing school with all the facilities it needed to provide a good, modern secondary program for students.
Mr Paglialonga said the new facilities would help support the school's science, technology, engineering, art and maths programs.
He said universal access toilets would help cater for the increasing number of students with a diverse range of needs in the school's community.
Mr Paglialonga said students would be able to research more easily with the new resource centre, which he hoped would be open to the community outside of school hours.
He said the project would open up more opportunities for the school's older students to be creative.
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"When it comes to classes seven and eight we're still developing and growing, so this will give us everything we require to provide a good, modern secondary program for students," he said.
Mr Paglialonga said construction would hopefully begin early 2021, with the aim to be finished mid-2022. He said the building plans were sustainable and energy efficient.
St Joseph's Primary in Quarry Hill has also been promised $1.4 million under the federal government's Capital Grants Program.
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