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Mould and other issues have closed classrooms at Hutt Valley High School. Photo: Supplied Lucy, her last name withheld, a senior student at Hutt Valley High, blames the government. "I have been let down," she said at a meeting in the school hall earlier this month which families called to seek answers from the Ministry of Education. Lucy had just spent the first three days of term two working from home because her classrooms are a health risk. "Help has come too late. It is horrendously overdue," she added. Hutt Valley High's problems are national news. Labour MP Ginny Andersen of Hutt South...

A Lower Hutt company that makes prefab classrooms is in voluntary administration but the Education Ministry says it is working with it.

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...

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...