Centre fittings...

We are now seeing the fittings going into the centre. Its wonderful to see an outline of where things will be placed. Pictures 1 to 4 - Office, Kitchen, Entrance of Over 2 side with cubbyholes, Staffroom. We recently did a walk through to place Autex pinboards and choose a colour scheme for the centre. The main colour of white will have splashes of Aubergine, Lime, Stately and Chilli Red boards throughout the rooms - yes even I was impressed with their names. Most walls are white with some feature walls however the resources will be carefully selected to bring the rooms alive.

Taggers attack centre

Over the month of May, our centre along with other local schools in Mangere have been hit with tagging, vandalism and break ins. As you can see the culprits have tagged over brick which means each brick has to be replaced and extra money spent for scotch guard. We also had our trust sign taken of our new centre coming in the area. This will cost approximately $6800 for the scotch guard to be sprayed entirely over the centre so if any future tags are done, it will be easier to remove. Unfortunately these things do happen - the good thing, no damage was done inside the centre. Where would we be, without the local support of our Mangere Maori Wardens lead by our good friend Thomas Henry that do a wonderful job of patrolling the area and reporting these incidences immediately to Police. Our board visit regularly as well however be reassured this incident is minor compared to the fires that happened to Mangere East Primary School. This is not fatal - we will still keep moving on despite these happenings!