Over the weekend, tagging, graphic imagery, racial slurs and swastikas were painted on storage containers on the outskirts of Port Chalmers School, right next to a walking track many children and members of the community use.
Port Chalmers School principal Vicki Nicolson said the vandalism was not a pleasant thing to see upon returning to school after the Queen’s Birthday long weekend.
The school was responsible for tidying the mess up, which would hopefully be finished by the end of today.
Although it would be covered with leftover paint and would not cost too much to fix, the vandalism was annoying and entirely inappropriate.
The school had pupils as young as 5 who would not understand the meaning of those words or symbols and should not be exposed to them, she said.
"We don’t want our children seeing that."
The vandalism was too high up to have been done by pupils of the primary school, which made her suspect a group of bored teenagers.
The sheds were used for storing boating equipment and sat beside a community footpath and the school fitness track.
