Start Made With New Class Rooms At Levin School

Chronicle (Levin), 19 September 1949, Page 4

Start Made With New Class Rooms At Levin School

■ ir ' 1 1 ' ♦ • • — . Wofk began today on thb1 efection of two new class rb&ms fbf 'the infant de'partment bf the Levin Primary School. When these' are comtoleted ' it will Cbnsiderably relieve the cong'estion at prfeseht takihg p.ace due tb the lafge incfease in the school Tbll, The contractor said this mo'rnihg that it was hoped to haye the rooms ready late, in Novembef. . The new building will be * situated at the Southe'rn ehd of the playing area at the rear of the sChobi buildings and alongside the Vegetable garden-. . it will give* 1800 square feet, lntofpdf Ating the cWo classrooms,t each 26 ( feet sguare, cloakrooms /'ahd stofe rooms." ' . The building will be of modern deSign with latge Windows Oh the Aorthefn side and so arranged to 3btain the maximum of sunshine. Altogether it will be a bri'ght and fify structute. The chairman of the school cOhimittee, Mr. A. C> Kbhnerley, jai'd this morning.that the juven-' ile population" of Levin waS growiftg at such a rate that school accom^mbdation was now at. a premium. fhe school flad been advised re^ cently ' that on the' foll ba'sis 'it vas now entitled to a new" teach'ef , out-w.here to accommbd'ate 'a new Idditioh to the stafi "was" the.big problem. The school roll was now 750, last term being a particulariy heavy oae in new enrolments., A. .ie w ' sSrfio oi ' for Levin wks Still urider consideratipn . antl memb.ers 3f the Wellington Education Boar d recently visited Levin and inspect-

e'd a number of possible sites, said Mr. Kennerley.