Thursday 24 March 2011

St Martins school is HALL TOGETHER again.....


HALL TOGETHER: Two classes at St Martins School in Christchurch are being held in the school hall because of earthquake damage to at least eight other rooms.

Quake-hit St Martins School has reopened but at least eight classrooms are out of action.

Two classrooms, each with about 20 pupils, are operating in the hall.

The library, music room and a room that usually houses resource teachers have also been converted into classrooms.

"We have no space," principal Rob Callaghan said.

The school, which has a roll of about 480, reopened yesterday, with most pupils returning. About 60 pupils were still away.

Callaghan said the school had faced "hurdles, but we've jumped over each one and pushed them aside" to reopen.

He said he had never seen so many workmen in one place at one time.

"One day we had three roofers, seven people installing heat pumps, people doing repiling, others checking the heat pumps, two builders, two technicians doing wiring, and plumbers as well."

The school also has a 30,000-litre fresh-water tank in the playground so children have drinking water.

Callaghan said the two classrooms would operate in the hall for the rest of the term. He hoped temporary classrooms would be delivered next term.

Teachers and pupils were coping well with the change, but it was still a novelty, he said.

"It's going to be a lot harder with the classroom next door, but it's a lot bigger than our old classroom," pupil Cathy Reimer, 12, said. "We're going to get used to it, I suppose," she said.

The Press - 22/03/2011

We are GROWING leaders....

At Birchwood we are GROWING leaders....

We are trying to see if Bronte will grow as tall as Jarrod?
(just joking)

Bronte and Jarrod are our School Leaders.
They were elected by the students.

Well done to you both, you will represent Birchwood well.

Thursday 17 March 2011

I have been VERY slack....


It has been a very long time sine I last wrote in my blog.
This is my VERY first post for 2011.

In January we had a fantastic time in Collingwood.
Do YOU know where Collingwood is?
Have YOU been there too?

If you have, you will have to write a comment and tell me what YOU did there.

(There will be a special prize for everyone who posts a comment
- remember to write your name and room number on your post)

WE went on a BIG RED BUS and went all the way out to the light house
on Farewell Spit.
In the photo YOU can see Lance and Timothy standing by the BIG RED BUS.