Education Ministry prioritises remedial works at Gloster Lodge school

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says re­me­di­al works are con­tin­u­ing at Gloster Lodge Mora­vian Pri­ma­ry School, which was closed on Tues­day, with some crit­i­cal works sched­uled to be com­plet­ed over the com­ing week­end.

In a me­dia re­lease, the Min­istry said the works were be­ing pri­ori­tised to pro­tect the health, safe­ty and well-be­ing of stu­dents and staff, while en­sur­ing con­ti­nu­ity of in­struc­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly for Stan­dard Four and Five pupils prepar­ing for the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA).

The Min­istry said it had been en­gag­ing rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties, in­clud­ing the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, to co­or­di­nate and ad­vance the nec­es­sary works.

Giv­en the school’s his­to­ry span­ning more than 70 years, the Min­istry is al­so col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture to con­duct a com­pre­hen­sive as­sess­ment of the school’s phys­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture.

The as­sess­ment is ex­pect­ed to in­form any fur­ther in­ter­ven­tions need­ed to sup­port the school’s long-term func­tion­al­i­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

In the mean­time, con­tin­gency arrange­ments have been ac­ti­vat­ed, with al­ter­na­tive ac­com­mo­da­tion op­tions be­ing ex­plored if nec­es­sary to min­imise dis­rup­tion to teach­ing and learn­ing.

The Min­istry said it re­mained com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing ac­cess to qual­i­ty ed­u­ca­tion for all stu­dents and work­ing with rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers to pro­vide a safe and suit­able teach­ing and learn­ing en­vi­ron­ment.