More than a thousand pupils in Kranshoek, near Plettenberg Bay in the southern Cape will soon have a new school to attend, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) announced on Thursday.
WCED spokesman Byron la Hoe said the new school, which was commissioned by the Department of Transport and Public Works for the Western Cape Education Department, would open its doors in the 2016 academic year.
The Kranshoek Primary School would be able to accommodate 1,250 pupils, including 120 Grade R pupils.
The double storey school building, which cost R35 million to build, would have “a framed concrete structure and a mixture of face brick and painted infill walls”.
The school would have two Grade R classrooms, 10 foundation phase, 10 intermediate phase and eight senior phase classrooms, and all the classrooms would have natural light streaming into them.
Other amenities include toilets, an administrative building, a kitchen, garden store, caretaker facilities and a parking arena.
The building has been built according to best practice green standards to “mitigate environmental impact and save money in the long term”. Some of these features include electricity-saving motion sensor switches, and rainwater harvesting facilities for irrigating fields and gardens. – African News Agency (ANA)
