And while many are sentimental about the facade of the 100-year-old school, others who played on its grounds are equally sad to see the 100-year-old tree in the schoolyard go.
One of those people is the General Manager herself but this morning she explained that losing the tree is the only way to accommodate all the temporary buildings needed to accommodate all of St. Mary's students. Here's more.
Cherisse Halsall:
"So one more point of sentimentality a few past students are concerned about this 100-year-old tree, I got a glimpse of the plans for the re-building ad it seems that a new building has to go right where that tree is, what would you say about the tree and people who are sad to see it go."
Jeremy Cayetano, General Manager, Anglican Pre and Primary Schools
"I am also very sad to see the tree go. The thing about it tho, we are getting wooden structures as classroom spaces and we are hoping that those will start to come at the end of September. The end of September we should get our first one and then the infant students will be able to come to school at that time. The building we are getting we have to ensure that they fit in the area that we have, because we dont want to move the students - all of that we looked into. We want to make sure they can fit. There is space in there if we cut the tree because we are going to have two buildings side by side in that area as a matter of what we are removing, we have some tires in there for the children to play etc. We are removing all of that in there and there is space if we cut the tree we are getting two buildings there we are getting one at the side and one at the back. We are only putting one against this building because remember we are pulling down this building this way. So we don't want you to know the buildings in the way of that so I too am sad to see us remove the tree."
We'll keep following the progress at St Mary's.
