What a great idea! MGSC and the wider community would really benefit from this.
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Getting girls on track
All-weather running track with long jump pit
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Suggested by: Rachael
Project partner: Mentone Girls’ Secondary College
Region
Southern Metro
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Physical activity promotes mental wellbeing and physical health. Team sports develop leadership skills. Girls are meeting a ‘grass ceiling’. A lack of playing fields, toilets and change rooms is stopping their participation in physical activity. An all-weather, accessible sport facility will increase the opportunities for the school and wider community to get active. The running track will be part of a further upgrade of facilities to include a soccer pitch. It will be the place for programs and recreation activities that support those traditionally excluded from organised sport, especially girls, older women and marginalised community members.
The outdoor sport and recreation facilities at this school are well-below the standard of other schools in the area. Girls are missing out. School-based wellbeing and sport programs will be extended to the wider community such as the mental health focused Color Run, teaching sport skills to primary age children and assisting disadvantaged people to participate in sport. It will benefit students, the school community and wider community.
An under-utilised space that is available to promote good health and is a place of gathering and engagement will contribute to a strong, healthy and connected community.
COMPLETED PROJECT
Project details
Suggested by: Rachael
Project partner: Mentone Girls’ Secondary College
Region
Southern Metro
Budget
Votes
260 votes received
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This would be wonderful for MGSC and the wider community as this school shares its facilities - a necessary school improvement
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Great asset to the school.
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MGSC and the wider community has been waiting for a project like this for a long time.
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A wonderful facility much needed for the school and the wider community!
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MGSC needs this upgrade. Improve girls in sport!
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This is so worthwhile and so much needed for the community.
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The school and community needs this
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My first choice. Go for it.
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A much needed facility to keep promoting fitness, health & wellbeing in a wonderful School! From what I’m hearing, this School receives no funding at all!
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This would be a fantastic improvement to a great school that is lacking in good sporting facilities
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The school badly needs to have sporting facilities up to the quality of other schools in the area.
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This would be a beneficial addition to the school. The oval presently looks very much like it did when I was a student there in the 70's! An upgrade is well overdue.
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Will be fantastic and will promote outdoor fitness activity within the school
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Great upgrade for the school and community.
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Definitely a great upgrade for a fabulous school. Health and fitness is a very important part of modern life/school/work balance
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I believe this project to be worthy of funding as it provides a necessary and sorely needed resource to instill the importance of fitness and health within the young minds attending this college as well as the community at large, thereby ensuring a healthy society and provide for less health care requirements/costs down the road, benefiting us all.
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Great upgrade for the school and surrounding schools
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Fantastic use of that land at the school
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What a great idea for a great school.
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As one of the highly respected schools in the community an update to the very old tired oval is overdue
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Great idea - good luck MGSC - let’s hope you get lots of support
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This school space has so much potential. It definitely needs an overhaul and upgrade.
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Much needed facility!
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NathanK
13 Sep 2018
Great idea, don’t get left behind as other schools in the area continue to invest in this area. Physical activity is so important for postive mental health!