School buildings to be improved

Press, 21 November 1979, Page 2

School buildings to be improved

The Canterbury Education Board is calling for tenders for three major building projects. An old brick classroom block at Beckenham Primary School, which the Ministry of Works has said will be ‘‘structurally unsound” by 1980-81, would be replaced with two classroom blocks, said the general manager of the board (Mr D. Wilson). One block of 276 sq m and containing three classrooms would be of the new flexible open-plan design, Mr Wilson said. The other block of 173 sq m. would have two conventional classrooms, and be relocatable. The board was also calling for tenders for a concrete boilerhouse and store shed for the school. Buildings on a site formerly shared by the Kaikoura High Schoo! and Primary School are to be improved. The new Form 1 to 7 Kaikoura High School would be opened next month, although pupils had already moved into the buildings, said. Mr: Wilson.

: Interiors of the old high (school buildings will be re(decorated so that they can (be used by. the Kaikoura ■Primary School, he said. Work was expected to : begin at the Kaikoura site ■and on the Beckenham buildings early next year, said (Mr Wilson. It was hoped the I Kaikoura buildings would be ready for use in the second (term whereas it would prob(ably be the third term before the classroom blocks at (Beckenham would be completed. Akaroa Area School would [have a 222 sq m general [purpose hall for the secon- ; clary department, said Mt (Wilson. It was only in repent months that the Government had approved money for halls in small area schools. The Akaroa Area School catered for both primary and secondary pupils. Building on this project was expected to be finished by the second term next year, said Mr Wilson.