3 November 2015

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Wallaroo shows the way in innovative teaching WALLAROO primary, Hastings, is the first government school on the Mornington Peninsula accredited to use a teaching method more often available only at expensive private schools. Last Friday 30 educators from Australia and New Zealand toured Wallaroo to see the results of the Walker Learning Approach (WLA) to education. Principal Nicky Fammartino describes the WLA as “a total approach to teaching and learning, which includes the need for children to be active participants in their learning”. She said the method had been developed after decades of research into “developing skills, knowledge and social interaction through a personalised and age appropriate delivery”. The WLA included children using “creative exploration and investigation” as well as being formally instructed. Under the WLA method children learned literacy, numeracy, general knowledge and became self-motivated, developing skills in leadership as well as “vital social and emotional life skills”. Wallaroo received its WLA accreditation last month and Friday’s study tour followed five years of professional development and an “investment” of $100,000. “Before Wallaroo’s accreditation, the Walker Learning Approach was only available at private schools charging fees that are out of the reach for many families,” Ms Fammartino said.

Class time: Teachers from Australia and New Zealand were at Wallaroo Primary, Hastings, to find out more about the innovative Walker Learning Approach to education. Picture: Yanni

Build two new ports, inquiry told Mike Hast mike@mpnews.com.au MELBOURNE needs two new ports – one at Hastings and one on the western side of Port Phillip – Captain Richard Cox told the Port of Melbourne Select Committee hearing in Hastings last week. The committee is gathering information about the Labor government's proposed long-term lease of the Port of Melbourne to commercial interests,

and came to the peninsula for the first time to hear submissions from individuals, councils including Mornington Peninsula Shire and Frankston, and conservation groups. Captain Cox, a Tyabb resident and former Port of Hastings harbourmaster, told the committee that bulk trade required waterfront space for silos and tanks with wharf loading and unloading infrastructure different from that used for containers. He said Hastings should be devel-

oped as a container port, and the western side of Port Phillip – dubbed Bay West – should be for bulk trade "combining Geelong and Melbourne port facilities". After dumping plans for a container port at Hastings last year, the state government said Western Port should become a port for bulk trade. The area is already a bulk trade node with United Terminals (fuel) and Esso (gas and crude oil) operating north of the town, and Swiss company Puma En-

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