The principal of the proud but humble school burst into tears when Labor promised funding for a two-storey building and a rooftop sports field if re-elected this month.
Striding past a pair of pigeons pecking at schoolyard crumbs, principal Megan Dell estimates there are usually up to 30 birds inside Richmond Primary School that need chasing out.
Richmond Primary School captains Laylah Ross and Liam Hargreaves, principal Megan Dell, Labor candidate Lauren O’Dwyer and assistant principal Nerida Burns.During recess and lunchtime, teachers take shifts staffing the school crossing so children can safely cross Mary Street to use the oval for sport.
Dell and assistant principal Nerida Burns burst into tears when O’Dwyer, Hutchins and retiring Richmond MP Richard Wynne visited to announce a returned Labor state government would deliver $15.4 million in funding to the school, to build a two-storey building and a rooftop sports field.Richmond Primary sits inside the state electorate of Richmond, which Labor is defending from a concerted campaign by the Greens.
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