We are blessed with incredible teaching and learning spaces\u00a0at St Hilda\u2019s\u00a0due to the strategic planning and forward-thinking of past Council affiliates,\u00a0Principals\u00a0and generous donors.<\/p>\n
We know that learning happens anywhere and everywhere in the global interactive era that we all live in. We also know that contemporary learning spaces can play a part in how\u00a0our students\u00a0learn and how teaching is delivered.<\/p>\n
Over the last 125 years, it has been through the generosity of\u00a0our\u00a0parents, Council members and the\u00a0Foundation\u00a0that our Bay View,\u00a0Chidley\u00a0and\u00a0Yeagarup\u00a0campuses are what they are today.\u00a0Every building has been built with money that has been raised through our community and we have an obligation to continue to maintain and preserve these buildings while looking at what our future needs will be.<\/p>\n
Our school\u2019s history, character and environment\u00a0play\u00a0a significant role within our community. It\u00a0has\u00a0brought together\u00a0educators,\u00a0students\u00a0and families for 125 years.\u00a0Our campuses provide\u00a0us all with\u00a0a sense of\u00a0place and belonging\u00a0that is uniquely St Hilda\u2019s.\u00a0A more mature school often brings\u00a0with\u00a0it\u00a0great beauty\u00a0(and interesting moments in architectural history)\u00a0along with additional challenges and expenses to\u00a0modernise\u00a0and refurbish. Often significant infrastructure costs are all behind the scenes. Furniture, painting,\u00a0carpet\u00a0and classroom resources are\u00a0often\u00a0the cheapest part of any renovation. Structural work is usually a larger investment.<\/p>\n
With this in mind, significant\u00a0improvements have taken place over the December and\u00a0January period\u00a0for our students and staff.<\/p>\n
Bay View Campus:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> The School Hall received a facelift with replacement bi-fold doors and painting of beams to bring some light to the space.<\/p>\n ICT infrastructure\u00a0was substantially upgraded to improve\u00a0WiFi\u00a0access across the campus\u00a0to support the Student Assigned Learning Device (SALD) program.<\/p>\n Yeagarup\u00a0Campus:\u00a0<\/strong> The scope of works includes three additional dormitory-style accommodation units that will sleep up to 90 students with wet and dry areas for camping equipment and bathroom facilities. Each dorm will have sleeping facilities for two supervisors. This will allow us to take whole of year cohorts from Years 5 upwards.\u00a0\u00a0An undercover camp kitchen, covered pergola and activity hub will also be built over the coming months. These facilities will give the girls access to undercover cooking facilities, including barbeques, a pizza\u00a0oven\u00a0and a large indoor recreation hall. Next to the dormitories, a large campground will be available for the younger students as they learn essential outdoor education skills. Two new sheds will store outdoor education equipment and a drying hall for wet clothes and equipment.<\/p>\n There has been significant progress\u00a0in the construction program\u00a0with slabs poured for the new sheds, footings installed for dormitories, preparation for water tanks, installation of the\u00a0sewage systems\u00a0and assembly of steelwork for the Activity Hub.<\/p>\n While many of these areas you will not see\u00a0on a daily basis, they are all critical to the success of the whole school and\u00a0maintaining the St Hilda\u2019s identity that our girls and community\u00a0love\u00a0and cherish.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are blessed with incredible teaching and learning spaces\u00a0at St Hilda\u2019s\u00a0due to the strategic planning and forward-thinking of…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,26],"tags":[95],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fionas-blog","category-strategic-updates","tag-philanthropy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nThe\u00a0Boarding\u00a0House\u00a0improvements continued, with\u00a0the completion of the Year 12 area of\u00a0upper\u00a0Capel by our Facilities Team to match Stage 1 and 2 refurbishments completed\u00a0over\u00a0previous Christmas breaks.<\/p>\n
\nIn September building works started at our beautiful\u00a0Yeagarup\u00a0campus giving us more accommodation and better activity hubs for students attending camps on site.\u00a0This work has been funded by a substantial donation from our Foundation.<\/p>\n