Five Oberlin High School band students were selected to perform at Ohio-based bands this weekend, according to a news release. Senior Grant Squires, freshman Maia Hoyle-Smith, freshman EJ Thomas and sophomore Toby Hopkins will perform in the Kent State High School All-Star Bands on Jan. 14, the release said. Sophomore Grace Petzak will play with […]
School board of trustees chairman Grant Squires learned of the fire at 3am, after police called the caretaker so firefighters could access the building and check the fire had not reached the interior. He said the incident was disappointing and “beyond irritating”. It did not appear as though the car was moved closer to the building before it was set on fire The resource teacher usually parked it by the corner of the building during the school holidays because the school’s security cameras had better coverage there. The building was used as a base for that teacher and administration, but was not a classroom.
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Woodville School’s junior block, built in 1879, is New Zealand’s oldest classroom still in use, but significant earthquake strengthening and renovation costs may soon see it mothballed.
Generations of school children have whispered of the ghostly nun that rings the Woodville School junior block bell, but now the bell may be tolling for New Zealand’s oldest classrooms. The buildings been part of Woodville School since 1879, two years after the school opened with a roll of 30 children, and it is the only classroom of that era still in use today. But the substantial costs to ensure the venerable classroom is fit-for-purpose, and necessary earthquake strengthening work, have called its future into question.