Fire-damaged school to reopen on April 15

Apr 07, 2013 News

Over 400 students of La Parfaite Harmonie Primary School will have to wait one more week before returning to their fire-damaged building. According to a government statement, renovations are being “facilitated” to the damaged section of the one-flat structure.
The West Demerara school, which has 489 students, was also temporarily housing almost 200 kindergarten children.
The L-shaped building was badly damaged in the middle section with the headmistress’ room and kindergarten section completely destroyed. The roof in that section has also caved in.

Fire-damaged La Parfaite Harmonie Primary School will not open tomorrow for the new term.

On March 26, Grade Six students were writing the National Assessment when the fire, believed to be electrical, broke out.
Education officials overseeing the exams and teachers managed to quickly evacuate the students. The blaze was contained to one section.
According to a government statement last week, Saudia Khadir, Superintendent of Exams, has confirmed that the Grade Six students are yet to complete Mathematics Paper 2 and Social Studies Papers 1 and 2. Plans are progressing to ensure that they will be able to complete the test papers in due time. A date will be announced later.
With records of the students lost in the fire, the school has since started a process of meeting with parents to reconstruct these.
Tomorrow a critical meeting is to be held at 14:00hrs at the school to apprise parents on the way forward. The $60M school was commissioned 18 months ago on October 29, 2011.
Meanwhile, contractors are working to speed up construction on the nursery school next door.
The school had been scheduled to be completed for the January term but was delayed after the contractor reportedly skipped the country. Already the windows are in but the roof is still to be completed.

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