Hornby School

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32050, 26 July 1969, Page 12

Hornby School

. Sir,—No doubt Education Board members are thinking with pride of the new intermediate school to be built in Hornby. Let their pride be tempered with a thought for the decrepit old school which has served the children of the district for nigh on 75 years. If one could imagine all the junky buildings used as fowlhouses put in one place and called a school, that would be Hornby School.

Auckland architects deplore the prison-like schools in their area. Let them threw their hands in the air with horror at Hornbyk hovels. Some of the prefaba have been there so long that the

weatherboards have rotted. Teachers in the oldest block would need a torch to see if the pupils were present. Fair’s fair. By all means a new intermediate, but st the same time a little consideration for the younger children. Send in a bulldozer

before the whole thing tells down.—Yours, etc, FINTTUS.

July 22.1969. [Mr W. P. Spencer, secret-ary-manager of the Canterbury Education Board, replies: “Forms I and H pupils from the Hornby School wiU transfer to the new intermediate school when it opens in February, 1971. This will enable the old block at Hornby to be demolished and a new block built cm the site. The, children in the prefabricated classrooms will then move into the new blodk and the prefabricated classrooms removed. At this stage all of the accommodation at the Homby School win be of a

very good standard. Members of the board can justifiably be proud that a contract has been let for the erection of the new intermediate school. This is not only a major step forward in the provision of educational facilities in the district but is a key teeter in the board's plans to improve the standard of aceommodntion at the four contributing schools.”]