A New Office for the Principal

Miss Reid and Aria check out how the new Principal's office is progressing.

Miss Reid will have good views of the school from her new office.

New Staffroom

The new staffroom will have great views of the playground,

with doors opening out onto a spacious decked area.

The New Administration Block

 A view of the inside of the new Administration Block

The new Administration Block is taking shape

The New Administration Block Progresses

This will be the new administration block. We were interested to hear that in Hong Kong they use bamboo scaffolding all the way up, even on the tallest buildings. They need scaffolding so that the builders can easily reach the top to work on it.

It is looking very flash and will be much better than our old one was.

This is the entrance into the new office area. There will be a big sign on the concrete block wall so no one is confused about where our office is.

Junior Classroom Progress

The new junior classroom doors look fantastic because they are smart and modern. The classrooms look really stylish and have interesting spaces for the juniors. They look really stunning. The builders did heaps of work on them over the holidays.

Dental Clinic Progress

The roof is now on the dental clinic and the walls have been started. The windows are also in. The new dental clinic is going to be so large and have a lot more room. People won't have to wait because there will be about seven dental therapists working in there at once. The old one didn't look so good. It looks cool.

Building Progress

The Administration Block in the foreground & Junior Classrooms in the background

Progress on our new buildings is happening very fast. We came back from our week off after the earthquake to find that the timber framing for the Administration block had gone up and today the roofing iron came in on a huge truck for the Junior Classroom block. You can see in the photo above the crane attached to the truck lifting the large pieces of roofing iron up onto the Junior block ready to be secured into place.

Another building that has suddenly taken shape on our school grounds is the new Dental Clinic hub that is being built at the front of our school. It is enormous and will have seven rooms, each with its own chair and dental therapist. The Dental Hub will service all the schools in our local area.

The new Dental Hub taking shape.

The Framing Goes Up

The workmen have put up the timber frames to make the walls of the new classrooms. There are spaces for the windows and doors. There are some grey beams to make it stronger. They have put up the beams ready for the roof to be built on.

The builders are pouring the concrete for the floors of the sick bay, Principal's office, staffroom and the main office.

Next week they might be doing the framing for the administration block.

The Administration Block Begins

The office, the sick bay, the staffroom and Miss Reid's office are starting to be built. The builders dug a trench and put metal rods in them. They will pour in concrete and put on blocks to make it strong. It is called the foundation.

Junior Block Building

On Thursday the concrete truck drove in to where the builders were. They poured the concrete for the floor of the junior classrooms. The concrete came out through a big tube and into the space inside the blocks.

The builders got a long stick and made the concrete smooth.

New Buildings

We are getting some new buildings at our school. The builders are starting to build the new classrooms for the juniors and the builders are building a new staffroom and office.

We saw the digger get all the mud and the digger put the mud in the truck. The roller went back and forward.

We saw a crane. The crane was digging in the mud. The crane was digging and we saw some pipes and we saw heaps of mud.

Piwakawaka 3, Year 2