Kyeemagh Public School

I went to this school for years K-2 of my education. It was a wonderful
experience, as the small number of students helped to foster a very
close community within the school. When I compare it to the rest of my
primary schooling experience, where I attended much larger schools, it
made me appreciate all the more in retrospect, how special the school
was, largely by virtue of the space that was there that allowed kids
to be kids.
* Student to teacher ratio makes such a big difference to education
outcomes, It gives teachers the time and space to be able to identify
both struggling and excelling students, and it also helps to manage
disruption when there are less children to a class.
* It makes a difference when starting in Kindergarten, that the oldest
cohort is actually only year 2, as opposed to year 6. For me, this
meant that it was much easier to engage with older peers, and meant
that if there was any bullying (which thankfully I don't remember
there being much of at all), you wouldn't have possibly up-to-year 6
kids picking on as little as Kindergarten kids.
* The size of this proposal is excessive. Right now, in a school that
has 42 students, that averages to 14 students per grade. To increase
the number to 500 total would average out to over 70 students per
grade!! As it stands, KPS is a small school, but to be honest, that's
all that is needed for the suburb. Kyeemagh is a very small suburb of
only 800 residents, and it is quite beyond the realm of possibility to
believe that the community would be breeding 70 kids to meet intake
demands every year. The school grounds are sizeable for 42 students,
sure, but I also highly doubt that there would be enough facilities to
be built on the space to also allow there to be adequate play areas at
recess and lunch times. And only a 20-car carpark is ridiculous!!
Surely there would be way more than 20 teachers and admin staff (if
you're planning a 500 student school), where are they all meant to
park?!
* The traffic that that number of students would generate would be
obscene, especially for what is a very small thoroughfare of mostly
single lane roads, and this would only be compounded if the school is
made to fit 500 students, because as the suburb of Kyeemagh itself
doesn't already have enough students to meet that demand, this would
lend itself to kids from other suburbs coming over. The effect this
would have on local traffic is unimaginable - it would ruin the
peaceful little school (and suburb) that Kye

My cpncerm is with traffic conjestion exiting Jacobson ave , caroma and
Mutch ave in the mornings between 7am and 9am . Currenyly Bestic st is
bumper to bumper in traffic until Mutch ave from Genral Holmes dr and
cars usually block all three intersections , not enabling cars to exit
Jaconbson ave , Caroma and MUtch ave.
At Jacobson ave , the traffic is usually banked 50 to 150 m back and
cars cant go straight to Moate ave, cant turn right to bestic st and
nearly impossible to turn left into bestic st
With an the extra traffic coming into Kyeemagh in the mornings for the
K-6 school these traffic jams in Kyeemagh will be exacerbated 5 fold.
How will you improve traffic flow exiting kyemagh in the mornings
between 7am and 9am , because as it it now it can take up to 30 min to
exit Jacobson ave ...
Can you look at installing traffic lights at the Jacobson ave / Bestic
st intersection ,
Is it possible to change the timing of the traffic lights at Bestic st
/ General holmes dr intersection to allow more traffic flow of bestic
st especially the cars turning left onto general holmes dr.
Basically . the only exits in Kyeemagh in the morning are along Bestic
st and if you are heading North or south preference is the Jacobson
ave exit which has the longest traffic jam sometines reaching beehag
st .
For cars heading west, they usually exit at Mutch ave and even this
intersection is blocked by traffic banked up on Bestic st ,
The situation is bad at the moment and I have conerns that with the
redevelopment of Kyeemagh public school the increased traffic will
result worsen the situation
Can we have a dedicated left turn lane operating continuisly jacobson
ave onto bestic st and then onto general holmes dr ? this way the all
traffic exiting Kyeemagh to heqd east will have a open free flowing
lane