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The eighteen worst affected schools in Christchurch had an initial meeting with the Ministry of Education today to discuss the path towards reopening our schools.
Each of the schools present has now been allocated a Ministry representative to co-ordinate a Project Team that will work towards reopening. We have our first meeting tomorrow morning. As mentioned previously a number of issues need to be ticked off and dealt with before we can get underway. One of the essential things is sewerage; and one of the messages that we were given today was that the Ministry of Health are against the use of port-a-loos in schools. Other options, such as septic tanks and pumps, have to be investigated. This will not happen quickly.
Therefore we can say that school will not be reopening before the 14th of March.
I do want to reassure you that Freeville School WILL be back! We will need to demonstrate, especially in the short term, that we are all Freeville Flyers. We will need to be adaptable, caring and creative.
Our Project Team will be doing their absolute best to ensure that in the long term, Freeville School will be better than ever. We cannot dwell on what our buildings are like now and what they were like before. Rather we have to look at the damage inflicted on our buildings as an opportunity to build something fantastic, and that's what we will be setting out to do.
I'm with ya John. Its important to stay positive in light of the situation. Thank you for keeping me up to date. I will look at creative ways of keeping Ewan stimulated. He is loving school. Any one in my area who wants to help me home school my boy and their own in my house, give me a call on 387 0972. Diana Bates
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