Concept designs for the proposed Remarkables Primary School were finalised this week at the latest meeting of project leaders.
A dozen representatives from construction company Naylor Love, the Ministry of Education and the school's establishment board of trustees, along with future principal Deborah Dickson, met in Naylor Love's offices in Remarkables Park yesterday.
The establishment board of trustees chairman, Roy Thompson, said the group met to review the final detailed plans of the school's architectural, mechanical and landscape designs.
"The outcome was Naylor Love is ready to price up the GMP [gross maximum price] contract for ministry approval on or about April 15," Mr Thompson said.
The establishment board would next meet in the week starting April 6.
Mr Thompson said work would begin on the earmarked 1.6ha site on Lake Ave on April 20.
A Maori blessing by a Ngai Tahu iwi representative would be given the next day.
Ms Dickson, who has experience teaching in Invercargill, St Andrews College and at Perth's Ladies Methodist College, will be formally employed as the principal of the Remarkables Primary School on April 27.
The 460-pupil school is expected to open to pupils in some grades in the first term of next year, before its full opening on the first day of the second term.
