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Hutt Valley High School temporary classrooms will take months to install 6 May, 2021 11:41 PM 4 minutes to read About 160 people attended the meeting at the school last night to hear from Ministry of Education and school staff. Photo / RNZ About 160 people attended the meeting at the school last night to hear from Ministry of Education and school staff. Photo / RNZ RNZ By John Gerritsen of RNZ A community meeting has been told it will be months before temporary classrooms are on site to replace mould-damaged rooms at Hutt Valley High School. About 160 people attended the meeting at the school...

ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF Hutt Valley High School students protest the closure of some of their classrooms due to toxic mould and damp by setting up a classroom on the Parliament front lawn. Students shut out of their classrooms because of toxic mould say the problem is a symptom of chronic underfunding for the upkeep of public schools. About 350 Year 12 and 13 pupils at Hutt Valley High School have had to do half their weekly learning at home since Monday after unsafe levels of black mould was discovered in 13 learnings spaces and a dance studio earlier this year. At a meeting held in the schoo...

Hutt Valley High School has failed to secure a binding commitment from the Education Minister to quickly rebuild a mould-riddled teaching block. A block of classrooms at Hutt Valley High School has had to shut due to mould and leakage problems. Photo: Supplied Five hundred senior students have been forced to learn from home for half the week due to classrooms that have leaked for years, becoming unsafe with toxic black mould. Students aim to protest outside Parliament today. Board of Trustees chair Hamish Bowen and two former board chairs sought assurances from Minister Chris Hipkins in a 45...

John Nicholson/Stuff Hutt Valley High School’s chairman of the board of trustees, Hamish Bowen, says redevelopment plans need to go beyond demolishing the mouldy C Block. With Hutt Valley High School’s mould-riddled C Block slated for demolition, the school’s board chairman says a much wider redevelopment is needed to avoid history being repeated. In March, several classrooms in the school's C Block were evacuated and sealed off after unsafe levels of black mould were detected. Following more testing, thirteen learning spaces and a dance studio were closed which has forced senior stude...

John Nicholson/Stuff A roofing report from 2019 warned of the potential for fungus to become a health hazard in areas of Hutt Valley High School that were recently closed because of mould. A potential mould problem at Hutt Valley High School was raised years before 13 classrooms were forced to close, leaving students to learn from home, for that very reason, a report shows. In 2019, the school commissioned building consultants CoveKinloch​ to look at the state of roofs on some buildings. The report, seen by Stuff, identified moisture issues as a result of rotten, peeling and holey roofs a...