Christchurch Girls' High School has for years pushed for rebuild of a quake-damaged block. Photo: RNZThe Ministry of Education has done a u-turn over a school rebuild after spending millions of dollars on a failed approach. Christchurch Girls' High School will get a new main block after five years of trying to strengthen the existing one. Thousands of students have been taught in the quake-damaged, then partially-finished, block at the decile-10 state school since the 2011 earthquake. Construction is likely to start in late 2022, just prior to when the whole city-wide school rebuild programme was meant to wrap up in 2023.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 10, 2020 03:22 UTC