So far more than $140m has been invested into the Shepparton Education Plan, in which the Mooroopna Childrens and Family Centre have benefited from. The centre, which is co-located to the Mooroopna Primary School, celebrated with an official ‘cutting of the ribbon’ opening last week. The partnership between Greater Shepparton City Council, the Department of Education and Training and the philanthropic Colman Foundation have worked extremely hard to make a centre like this possible.
The centre caters for around 100 children and features contemporary learning and outdoor play spaces, and this multi-purpose space also includes Maternal and Child Health facilities along with paediatrician and wellbeing rooms.
The centre is part of the Department of Education and Training’s ‘Shepparton Education Plan’ which is striving to improve education outcomes for young people in the early years of their life, through to primary school then secondary school and beyond.
Minister for Early Childhood and Workplace Safety Ingrid Stitt attended the opening and cut the ribbon with two of the children who attend the centre. She also spoke about how essential it is to give kids the best start to life, and the importance of early learning.
“Developing happy and healthy young children is the key to their futures. This centre is spectacular, children and their families will benefit from this incredible place which will set children up for lifelong learning,’ said the Minister.
