xtensive repair work was underway at KC in the weeks leading up to the opening of the school. Although there is still more to be done, the summer projects once executed should go a long way in providing a more comfortable and aesthetically pleasing environment for the students and staff.
Over at the North street campus, the PTA underwrote landscaping to the tune of $200,000 by way of walkway blocks, repair of two broken and construction of three new concrete benches, erection of vertical posts with chain enclosure as well as grassing and hedging. Most of the works were carried out at the front entrance of the campus and installed adjacent to the Douglas Forrest building, the ancillary staff changing room and the area enclosing the flag poles. According to The PTA interim president Hector Daley, plans are afoot to extend the landscaping to the lawns of St Augustine Chapel and erecting a sculpture theme park in the median adjacent to the toilet area. This latter project he hoped will be carried out with the assistance of students from the Visual Arts department.
4th form block
On the same Clovelly campus, a group of KCOB employed to the government post office, joint ventured with the school in a 5th form block project that witnessed commenced installation of new doors and jambs, lourve windows and mesh at front, these in four classrooms on the ground floor. The group also underwrote the costs of procuring and installing 7 whiteboards in the 4th and 5th form blocks.
5th form block - repairs sponsored by KCOB Postal workers
The most extensive work on the north street campus will take place on the 3rd form block. Here 4 class rooms should have new doors, and windows installed alongside a comprehensive paint job once the work is completed
As usual metal chairs and desks were welded and painted and new wooden desk tops fitted.
7th grade block at Melbourne
Chairman of the KCOBA Ray Fraser and his brother Dr Wayne Fraser of the Florida chapter block toured the sports auditorium on the ground floor where outstanding refurbishing works were noted. Attention will have to be paid to windows, doors, sanitary and electrical fixtures as well as decorations.
Gymnasium at North Street
Over at Melbourne 10 new white boards were installed in the same number of classrooms. Over 1,000 desks and chairs were welded and painted and new desk tops fitted. However the burning issue of the leaking roof of the 7th grade (2nd form) block as well as the distended roof tiles and deteriorating wooden floor of the sixth form block remain unaddressed.
