The grant was delivered by Variety - the Children's Charity, a not-for-profit aiming to help kids 0-17 years of age who face sickness, disability or disadvantage.

Halls Gap Primary School acting principal Nicola Peters said students were delighted with the results.

"It's extremely exciting and has made a big difference into being able to get more use out of the gym," Ms Peters said.

Students at the school don't access to a hall, so ensuring the gym - affectionately nicknamed the Shed - can be used all year round will be a positive change.

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Ms Peters said that Variety first approached the school about funding a project.

Variety's grants program assists both individuals and the community - including schools, not for profit organisations and community groups, according to its website.

"We grant equipment, supplies, educational aids and much more. This may be a wheelchair for a child, an assistance dog or an all- abilities playground for a school or local park," the mission statement read.

"They were looking to come through Halls Gap and made contact with the school to ask if we had any projects we'd be interested in them helping out with," she said.

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It was an opportunity the school seized with both hands, Ms Peters said.

"The gym gets used for after school activities, circus activities and board games a couple of days a week," she said.

"If it's a rain day, sports can be held in the gym, or drama; singing, dancing, that kind of thing.

"But we found that especially over winter, it was freezing cold - and over summer it got really quite hot.

"The grant has meant that we've been able to install three split systems in the gym and now we're able to use the facility all year round.

"We're very grateful, from the bottom of our hearts as a school community, for Variety for making contact with us and thinking of us and enabling us to put these systems in.

"Without them, it would have taken a lot of fundraising on our own."

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