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21.01.2022 With the resignation of NSW Premiere Mike Baird, his likely successor, Gladys Berejiklian, has an obligation to fulfil the Baird Government's election promise to move Ultimo Public School to a larger site. This was a government election promise, and changing the party's leader does not absolve the government from its moral obligation to honour that election promise. Some people voted for the NSW Liberal Party at the last election for the specific reason that #UltimoSchool wou...ld be moved to a site that is three times larger. Since that state election, in March 2015, the need for a larger primary school site for Ultimo and Pyrmont has become more critical. The Darling Harbour skyline is full of cranes building new high-rise apartment buildings, and the children there will live in the Ultimo Public School zone. In addition, another 1600 apartments are planned for the Bays Precinct development around the current Sydney Fish Market site. Even after a rebuild, the present Ultimo Public School site will be hopelessly unable to cope with the number of children expected in the next five years.

15.01.2022 Today marks the demise of NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli, who got booted from cabinet. Please take this opportunity to have another look at the animated cartoon, Piccoli's Promise, to remember how he deceived the kids of Ultimo Public School. Feel free to comment below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdpR8M_DIUk

14.01.2022 NEWSFLASH::: The move to a temporary pop-up school has been delayed. Long-time Ultimo Public School campaigner, Bill D'Anthes, has just emerged from a meeting with officials at the NSW Department of Education. He reports the opening of the temporary pop-up school has been delayed until 2018. Last year it was announced that the #UltimoSchool move would occur mid-2017. The delay is good news for the children, as they won't be disrupted by a mid-year move. However we'll keep ca...mpaigning for the government to stick to its election promise of moving the school to the preferred 'Fig & Wattle' site - which is around 3x larger. Please comment below.

08.01.2022 Premier Mike Baird's nasty Christmas present: A pile of contaminated industrial waste for your children. The Ultimo Public School P&C wrote to Education Minister Adrian Piccoli in November, requesting that work on the temporary 'pop-up' school - to be built on top of a sludge heap of contaminated industrial waste at Wentworth Park - be halted until the report by the Parliamentary Inquiry has been handed down. The December response was shocking. "The Department (of Education) ...is continuing with the planned redevelopment of the existing Ultimo Public School site," wrote Anthony Perrau , speaking on behalf of Minister Piccoli. In other words, the Baird government is confirming it will ignore Parliament and continue with the development, no matter how much it exposes our kids to lead contamination, no matter what the Parliamentary Inquiry findings are. How could Baird's grand election promise of moving Ultimo Public School to a different site three times larger have turned into such a nightmare? Instead, the children are facing the prospect of being moved to a contaminated site already deemed too unsafe to locate a basketball court. Minister Piccoli has washed his hands of the matter, refusing to talk to Ultimo locals or the P&C, and refusing to personally reply to any correspondence on the matter. Mr Baird's Christmas present for Ultimo - a pile of contaminated industrial waste for the children - will make this Christmas most distressing for Ultimo and Pyrmont parents. Tags: #UltimoSchool Pyrmont Playtime Fishburners Inner West Mums- Sydney Hello Sydney Kids Lord Mayor Clover Moore Please share our post with as many people as you can. Espcially with Premier Mike Baird (mikebairdMP).

02.01.2022 School assemblies will be a thing of the past, when Ultimo Public School is rebuilt and converted to a high-density school. The assembly hall of the rebuilt school will be vastly smaller than the current one. Yet the number of pupils at #UltimoSchool will increase from the current 280 to a proposed 600. There will no longer be space for a whole school assembly. It will likely require three separate assemblies with different age groups. The image below is an artist's impressio...n of the proposed rebuilt school. It will be the highest density school ever seen in Australia. The rooftop playground will be smaller than the current upper playground, yet required to hold 600 children. It will be supplemented by a basketball court, and we can relate to the size a basketball court is. Due to the density of children, it is inevitable that the school will mandate that there is no running allowed in the playground. Please comment below.