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Around the Grounds
Enhancing the natural and built environment of St Paul’s
Throughout the year, maintaining the spacious seventy-acre St Paul’s campus is an immense task. The school is blessed to have a dedicated maintenance team whose work, often undertaken behind the scenes, is critical to providing a learning environment that inspires our students, staff and community.
Over the course of the 2019-2020 summer holidays, this work was made all the more demanding as staff prepared to safeguard the campus from the threat of bushfire. For our Maintenance and Properties teams this included the ongoing cleaning of gutters, mowing of lawns, clearing of green waste and debris and checking the school’s fire protection systems.
As the threat of bushfire eased, planned work on the school grounds continued apace and a range of jobs were completed or set in motion. While the familiar sounds of play and learning were temporarily missing from St Paul’s due to COVID-19, staff remained focussed on delivering projects across the school. Some of these included:
• Installing new shade sails above the
Junior School playground • The revitalisation and enhancement of many garden beds, including a variety of new plantings – 267 natives to be exact!
• The installation of new irrigation systems; the ongoing pruning of trees and shrubs; the removal of fallen trees due to recent storms; and topping-up of the mulch in and around the school
• Refurbishing of old hardwood seats in and around the Secondary School’s central playing field • Refurbishment of GAGA pits in the
Junior School, including the installation of red safety rails and soft fall for protection • The installation of Soft fall around repurposed fallen tree in Kindergarten for children to play on safely • Additionally, all the usual day-in, day-out jobs that are required to keep a campus as large as St Paul’s running efficiently!
Keaton Daniels, School Captain.
