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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
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MOVING FORWARD: Paraparaumu School principal Steven Caldwell’s fierce determination saw the fire-struck school reopen today.
Community digs in to help arson-hit school CLOE WILLETTS Paraparaumu School reopened today, over one week after the devastating arson that left four classrooms and a library in ruins. Today’s feat, which will see the school run as a split campus, follows principal Steven Caldwell’s initial objective to reopen the school “in some way, shape or form”. “Some of the students will be on site, and another four classes will be transferred to St Patrick’s School,” said Mr Caldwell, who discussed the restructure with parents during a meeting last Thursday. “Children will be dropped off here, and walked across to St Pat’s, before being brought
back at quarter to three and picked up.” Determined to preserve students’ connections with Paraparaumu School as much as possible, Mr Caldwell said children will also be brought back during morning tea and lunch when weather permits. “It’ll be a difficult next few weeks, but we’ll get on with it until term four, when the ministry brings in five temporary accommodation buildings. “They will be used until some new classes and library can be built — although I can’t put a timeframe on that at the moment.” He said along with being overwhelmed by extensive support from local schools, families and businesses,
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and every year we update them. “To update the junior readers can cost $3000 to $4000 alone, and there was 16 years’ worth of stuff in there.” With three teenage girls on remand following an appearance in the youth court last Monday in relation to the fire, Mr Caldwell said he is focusing his energy on going forward. “There is a lot of anger out there in the community, which is understandable. “But, at the end of the day, they’ve done what they’ve done, and we just need to get on with it.”
Paraparaumu School “can’t be thankful enough for the help of the St Pat’s board and community”. With St Pat’s School set to incur costs for having additional students in their classrooms, Mr Caldwell hopes part of the money fundraised by the community will be “tagged back to them so they’re not out of pocket”. “We are absolutely overwhelmed with the response from the community. We’re really thankful.” With thousands of dollars needed to replace and rebuild everything lost, which includes one teacher’s entire careers’ work, Mr Caldwell realises it will be an ongoing battle. “A lot of junior resources come out in a series of books,
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