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Wednesday <strong>May</strong> <strong>22</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
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Pupils<br />
watch as the<br />
concrete<br />
walls are<br />
put in place<br />
at the new<br />
Redcliffs<br />
School.<br />
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• By Louis Day<br />
THE FIRST walls of the<br />
new Redcliffs School went<br />
up last week.<br />
Pupils watched on as the<br />
pre-cast concrete<br />
walls were placed<br />
on Friday.<br />
Principal Rose<br />
McInerney was<br />
delighted with the<br />
progress being<br />
made.<br />
“After a lot of<br />
uncertainty, it is<br />
great to see that it<br />
is definitely going<br />
to happen. There<br />
were so many<br />
bridges that we had to<br />
cross to get here, but it is<br />
great knowing that we will<br />
Rose<br />
McInerney<br />
have our school return to<br />
the community next year,”<br />
she said.<br />
Pupils will move into<br />
the new school on April<br />
27 and the official opening<br />
will be held in<br />
June.<br />
Prime Minister<br />
Jacinda Ardern<br />
said she will “do<br />
everything she<br />
can” to be at the<br />
opening of the<br />
school in a letter to<br />
pupils.<br />
Ms McInerney<br />
is confident Ms<br />
Ardern will be<br />
there.<br />
“We are pretty sure<br />
that she will be there. We<br />
are really excited that she<br />
wants to come, she knows<br />
that we have been on the<br />
biggest journey to get<br />
here,” she said.<br />
After a community<br />
campaign to keep the<br />
school open, then-<br />
Education Minister<br />
Hekia Parata reversed<br />
her decision to close it<br />
in November 2016.<br />
It was decided the school<br />
would relocate to Redcliffs<br />
Park, sparking a separate<br />
unsuccessful campaign<br />
by the Friends of Redcliffs<br />
Park to rebuild the school<br />
at its Main Rd site.<br />
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