Although there’s still plenty of construction activity on the outside of Chatham’s Tecumseh Public School, it should be ready to welcome back its present and new students on Tuesday.
More than 180 students from the English program from John N. Given Public School are moving to Tecumseh beginning this school year as the two facilities consolidate.
Construction has been taking place all summer at Tecumseh to make room inside and out, include reconfiguring the parking lot to make it easier for the increased amount of students who will arrive by bus and those who are driven by their parents.
“We are finalizing some areas of construction in the school and in the parking lot area,” said Gary Girardi, superintendent of education with the Lambton Kent District School Board.
He added, at this point, the plan is to be ready for students to arrive for the first day of school on Tuesday.
Girardi said some work will likely take place at the school site on the weekend.
He said a portion of the parking lot will continue to be under construction when the school year begins.
“That won’t interfere with the students,” Girardi said, adding the area will have fencing around it as work continues.
“With only two months of the summer and lots of work to do . . . lots of jobs finish up close to the start of the school year, because the time allotment is not really large, so we’re on tight timelines,” said Girardi.
He said a lot of work has been done in different classrooms at Tecumseh, including the addition of kindergarten space, to accommodate the new students coming from John N. Given.
Work has also been done on the heating and cooling system, he added.
John N. Given is being repurposed to be used for alternative programs offered by the public school board, which include special education programs along with its adult and continuing education program.
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