A double classroom block taken from Queenstown Primary School
for ''retrofitting'' before its use at Remarkables Primary
School is barely recognisable while builders work to have it
ready before term one next year.
While Remarkables Primary School did not place in the South
Island Regional Jump Jam Competition on Saturday, pupils had
a great time and entertained hundreds of people in
Christchurch Airport.
Remarkables Primary School pupils brought Queenstown Airport
to a standstill on Friday with a surprise performance of
their Jump Jam skills to the sound of Greased Lightning,
before they boarded an aircraft to compete in Christchurch.
Pupils and teachers from Remarkables Primary School and
KingsView School took the plunge for the first time on Monday
when AJ Hackett Bungy held its fifth annual school open day
on its 24th birthday.
A huge community effort has allowed Remarkables Primary
School to be one of the first South Island schools to
participate in a nationwide kitchen garden initiative.
Relocatable classrooms for up to 112 extra pupils are
unlikely to tide over Remarkables Primary School until the
Ministry of Education opens a new Wakatipu primary school "in
about two years' time".
A proposal by Remarkables Primary School to transform and
occupy a section of adjoining reserve land for sports
activities has been considered worthwhile by the Queenstown
Lakes District Council.
The Remarkables Primary School's board of trustees and
principal have told the Ministry of Education and deputy
prime minister Bill English they will not accept the
ministry's proposal to annex two empty classrooms at nearby
KingsView School to cope with the Remarkables school's
overflowing roll.
