By Simon Clarke | Posted: Tuesday May 23, 2017
What a busy and exciting four weeks it has been!
Just in case you missed it, here is the ODT article regarding the $6.7 million dollar rebuild for the school.
The next stage for the school is to develop a "Master Plan" for the school site. It is hoped that the 8 new classrooms and library will be built in the current junior playground and hall area making greater use of some of the dead space of the bank. The new hall and admin area could possibly be built somewhere near the Tyne St entrance thus creating much more usable play space.
The Masterplan unfortunately will take a considerable amount of time as it is dependent on a number of reports and further information. Once the Board has the Masterplan it is confident that it will be able to address the other areas of the school that are not being affected by the rebuild and provide a high quality playground area. Our worst fear is that we invest in improving a playground that may be demolished as part of the rebuild.
The children are very excited about our financial literacy programme called Kaikville. The job application process has been completed and the apprenticeship period starts next week from 2-2:45pm on Tuesday-Thursday. Children will learn the necessary skills to run their business before they take over for the Kaikville week which starts on Tuesday June 13.
The market day will be held on Friday the 16th at 11am but please be warned that the Kaikville dollar is highly inflated at 3KD=1NZD with most items priced at around $30KD. We would love to have parents share in the Market Day but we also want to discourage parents "topping" up their child's income with foreign currency.
Kind regards
Simon Clarke