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Allenton School’s hall supper room is a supper room no longer, it is now a classroom. Its first occupants are (from left) Ava, Georgia, Kyden and Nathan. PHOTO AMANDA KONYN 020516-AK-014
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School bursting at the seams BY SUSAN SANDYS
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A new classroom is on the way at Allenton School, but it is not enough to ease the pressure at a school which is bursting at the seams. The school’s overflow has resulted in its hall supper room being converted into a classroom for new entrants. Principal Graham Smith said yesterday the Ministry of Education had recently informed him the school was entitled to a new classroom, but once it was built, the supper room would have to remain as a classroom because the school needed another two classrooms on top. Four new entrants had come into the supper room classroom when it opened at the start of Term 2 yesterday, and this number would expand to eight by next week. “It’s certainly at the seams,” Mr Smith said of the school’s roll. Building growth within the school
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zone was responsible for the expansion and he forecast the roll to be above 400 by the end of the year, compared to 390 at the end of last year. “This town has become such a larger town to what it was five years ago,” Mr Smith said. The only thing which had kept pressure off the school’s roll to some extent was the fact Ashburton Borough School was not zoned. Borough principal Sam Winterbourn said the school had two new entrants begin yesterday. The school was compromised for space with new builds under way, but when completed this would ease some of the pressure. “This school, like I think all schools in Mid Canterbury, have been in a period of quite significant growth in the last five years. I would suggest that’s been on the back of a very buoyant economy.” There were no signs of the dairy downturn affecting this growth to date.
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Tinwald School had three new entrants begin at the school yesterday, as well as two older children from a family which had moved into the school’s zone from within Mid Canterbury. Principal Peter Livingstone said the school had had to turn away out-of-zone students last term. The school’s roll was growing only gradually, as zones enabled managed growth. Hampstead School acting principal Bryony Digby reported a “quiet day” yesterday in terms of newcomers, with three new entrants and one six-year-old who had shifted from Christchurch. Netherby School principal Phil Wheeler said the school had six new children begin yesterday, but two former students had left, making a net gain of four. One was a new entrant and the others had moved to the Netherby area recently, from the North Island and other Mid Canterbury areas.
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