More room for Four Avenues

Press, 21 August 1979, Page 13

More room for Four Avenues

4 The Four Avenues New Zealand’s Jijst State-run alternative Secondary school, has acjfltiired more property — ;<he house next door to its present site. The school Jhas occupied 26 Gloucester Street since 1975 and jjhe Education Department sftid been trying to buy the Jfceuse next door at No. 28 jjor it since the beginning wf this year. £ The building previously 'Belonged to the Clinical at Christchurch jhiblic Hospital and was Jkmder the control of the •tkiiversity Grants ComJpßttee. » ’ The Regional Superintendent of Education (Mr tft. U. Roy) could not say Show much the Education ♦Department would have to Jfepay the University ♦Grants Committee for the ♦work that it had done on y the building while it had Been in its care. V Since late last vear

some of the 80 pupils of Four Avenues have been working from Saunders House, the registry office of the old Teachers’ College. Saunders House is nearly Ikm from Four Avenues and was not convenient for students and .teachers. Mr Roy said that the school needed more room because students had started to use the classrooms more instead of treating the building just as a base to work from, which had been the original aim of the school. A report on the work of Four Avenues over the last four years is due to be released soon. The report will assess whether the school provides a valid education alternative. Mr Roy said that in buying 28 Gloucester Street he was working on the assumption that the school would continue.