[2] The enrolment at Weetangera Primary School in 1974, its second year in operation, was 563, despite accommodation providing for only 450 pupils.

[13] Parents and students protested the decision,[13] and Hugh Hudson was appointed to audit and analyse the savings and impacts of the proposed closures.

[14] The Hudson report cast doubt over the closure of Weetangera Primary and two other schools,[15] which were reprieved in the final government decision.

Fox was the school's canteen manager and coordinator of the before and after-school care program.

[16] The Landcare garden, featuring more than 300 native plants near the school's entrance, had been developed over several years through a long-term regeneration program.