The Pink Bats arrived on Friday! It’s a small thing but any progress is a good thing:)
I have been talking to the Junior Pod about adding a small Time Capsule to the walls before they are sealed up in the next week or so and they are working on this over the next few days.
I had a little look into RÅ«ma Tahi and Rua today and things are looking good! Check the out the framing and new door openings in both rooms. These will give us access to the sandpit and the grass area beside the hall.
Hi everyone, I was talking to the building team today and they have updated me on the progress to our rooms. The roofing will be replaced over the next two weeks and the internal framing is about 80% complete.
The external ramp by the sandpit will be dug out a little bit more and the ramp framed up as well.
Some of the bigger items are also underway. The measurement of the aluminium windows and doors has been done and that has been sent away for manufacturing.
It’s a lovely sunny day and the roofing supplies have arrived! I’m very excited to see this is underway. The team did a great job of maneuvering the truck around some tight corners, but they got there in the end. I understand that they will be replacing the roof in sections to maintain weather tightness of the building. Things you learn from the experts, eh?!
Thanks to all of the mums and dads who dropped off their children today and made their way safely to the hall. Please model the correct behaviours for your children and do not walk through the carpark.
We want the students to come and go through the back entrance of the hall, by the playhouse. There will be a sign on the front door reminding all of us about this tomorrow 🙂
The scaffolding arrives tomorrow and that means that the roofing work on RÅ«ma Tahi and Rua will begin soon – hopefully this week (weather depending).
I caught up with the construction team today and they have made some excellent progress. You’ll notice a few changes when you get to school on Monday, that’s for sure!
Rooms 1 and 2 are ready for the next phase of the project and the clear light outside Rooms 8 and 9 has been removed. This will be replaced in the next holidays.
Freear Philip have arrived and the demo is starting 🙂
The gate is being moved from being attached to the classroom to being attached to the hall so that we have access to the back of this space during the construction phase of the rooms.
They will be on site all of this week clearing the spaces ready for the rebuild.
After an epic day of moving, throwing things away and pulling our hair out we moved RÅ«ma Tahi and Rua (and The Bit!) into the hall. I am so impressed with all of our helpers today – Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
When the students arrived in to their learning space they were blown away!
“Wow! It feels like my home in here!”
“I really like the view!”
“It is so comfy in here!”
“I can make snow angels on the carpet!”
And I just realised how many exclamation marks I used….But I think this post deserves them 🙂
This Friday (April 12th) will see our Junior Pod moving into the hall. We have our amazing senior teachers looking after the students while the senior students help us out with the move.
The carpet has been sourced (thanks Morgan!) and I am pretty sure the office dividers are ready to be collected – these will really help with any possible noise issues we may have in there.
Thats means that the builders will be arriving soon! I hope to have more of an update about this on the first day of the school holidays. Watch this space 🙂
Part of our renovation work includes re-roofing the Clearlite section (the verandah) outside RÅ«ma Toru, Waru and Iwa (Rms 3, 8 and 9) but this work is not expected to interrupt teaching and learning time.
Building Work at CDPS 