Wanaka Primary School principal Dr Wendy Bamford said Fulton Hogan contractors were using heavy machinery to move items from two of the school's playgrounds, to the new site during the school holidays.
The new playgrounds will be situated in a tiled area at the new school and contractors were starting construction of that area, she said.
Wanaka Primary School takes possession of its Scurr Heights facility on September 20.
"It's the first moves for what is going to be a very busy couple of terms," Dr Bamford said.
An inventory of the school's furniture was next on the moving to-do list.
"We need to do an audit to figure out what we will take, what we might sell, and what we need to buy," she said.
The school was in the process of confirming which moving company would be used for the shift, which would be carried out during the last week of term 3 and the two-week holiday break, ready for the first day of term 4.
The future of the existing 2.12ha Tenby school site - the property has a capital value of $4.33 million - remains undecided.
A spokesman from the Ministry of Education, which owns the land, told Allied Press community newspaper the Central Otago News it had no plans for the property once the relocation was finished.
Ministry property manager Paul Burke was reported as saying the property would go through the "standard sequential steps for disposal of government property".
Those steps are: consultation with other government agencies, then other local authorities which may have interests in the property; offering the property to the former owners or their willed successors; offering the property to Ngai Tahu; assessment by the Office of Treaty Settlements of any specific claim or individual interest in the property.
Finally, the property would be offered for sale on the open market.
- Additional reporting: Lucy Ibbotson, The News.
