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Tuesday 27 January 2015
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No room for extra students Pupils at Nelson College will be forced to take classes in the school’s boarding houses this term as the student population outgrows the number of desks and chairs available. The region’s oldest college will welcome 1210 students when it re-opens next week, up on the 1080 at the same time last year, and headmaster Gary O’Shea says that’s putting pressure on the school’s resources. Several classes will be held in the school’s boarding houses until four new classrooms are built, which is expected to be around May this year. Gary says a fifth “pre-fab” classroom was borrowed from Nayland College and will now remain at Nelson College permanently. He says the growth has come from the Tasman district, with some families opting to send their boy to a single-sex school. “But if you look at the trends in
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Nelson and Atawhai, those areas will keep growing and in the next few years our growth will be from Nelson.” He says the school has enrolled 40 year-8 boys from Broadgreen Intermediate. The school is expecting another 8-15 students in the next few weeks, but he wouldn’t like to see it get much bigger. “If we got too much bigger we’d start to lose that sense of community.” Meanwhile, Nayland College’s new principal, Daniel Wilson, will preside over a smaller school than his predecessor Rex Smith. The school has suffered another drop in its roll, with 1021 students enrolling for 2015, down
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