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School started Monday at the brand new home of River Bend Elementary at 6710 Perry Creek Road after several days of hard work by River Bend teachers and staff and Wake County Public School System Facilities staff.
The new River Bend Elementary is a 51 teaching space reuse of the two story elementary school prototype used at East Garner Elementary. The facility was designed by Pearce, Brinkley, Cease and Lee. Barnhill Construction was the Construction Manager. The 103,806 square foot facility is located on a 20 acre site, master planned in collaboration with Wake Technical Community College and the City of Raleigh. It is adjacent to the Wake Tech North campus and a future City of Raleigh Park.
Principal Lois Hart worked closely with Clint Council, the WCPSS Facility Department Project Manager, in preparing for the move which she says went smoothly thanks to the hard work of her faculty and staff. The school opened in 2006, starting early in the temporary modular campus on Spring Forest Road while the new facility was built. Construction was completed and the building received final inspections at the end of November.
Hart offered her thanks to Becky Romine of WCPSS Facilities for organizing and scheduling the move. Romine had the new school's furniture moved into place Dec. 2 and 3.
Hart had her media specialist and physical education teacher working with the movers on Dec. 3 moving items from the Spring Forest Road campus into the brand new Perry Creek Road facility. On Dec. 4, everything in the school's administration spaces were packed and moved, except for the computers Hart and her staff were using.
The evening of Dec. 4 and 5, movers packed up materials from the classrooms and by 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6, the movers had finished their work and River Bend faculty and staff were preparing the building for the arrival of students. They worked Saturday and Sunday to get everything in place.
Hart worked with parents to make the move into the new school seamless. She communicated her plans for the first day and everything fell into place.
Students were dropped off by bus and car at the new campus Monday morning. Students in kindergarten through second grade went to the media center. Students in grades 3-5 went to the gym. They found their teachers there and then as a group went to their new classrooms for the first time. After some time to settle into their new rooms, teachers took their classes on a tour through the new building to help them become familiar with it.
"Children are already at home in the new campus after just a week," said Hart.
Parents are being encouraged to attend an open house at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday Dec. 16 just before the school's holiday celebration. Hart said parents will have time to enjoy the new building and then attend the second and third grade student performance in the school's new multi-purpose room.
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