Dundee Junior Secondary School moves to new prefabs adjacent to Education offices
There are also enough toilets for pupils and the staff of 28.
There was a bright start to the third term for the 860 learners at Dundee Junior Secondary School on Tuesday who took their seats in their new, temporary school put up adjacent to the Umzinyathi Education Offices in Forestdale.
The 21 new prefab classrooms and nine office blocks for administration were put up during the holidays after parents staged protests over the condition of the old school on Oldacre Street. Parents said the old school posed a danger to their children’s health and safety, with snakes inhabiting the premises and damaged roofs, windows and broken toilets making schooling impossible, parents said.
Meetings with education officials were often controversial and it was only the continued pressure from parents that prompted education authorities to agree to the demand that the temporary school be put up alongside the education offices.
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There are also enough toilets for pupils and the staff of 28. Principal, Fiona Tooray and her staff, with the help of pupils, were hard at work on Tuesday morning making sure all classrooms had their desks and chairs properly arranged. Electricity should be connected to the prefabs within the next few weeks.
However, Mrs Tooray said teaching would be in full swing on the first day. Once all the stock from the old school is removed, probably around the end of August, workers will set about demolishing the building in preparation for the erection of a brand new Dundee Junior Secondary School.
