A NEW building with flexible learning areas is set to arrive at Warrnambool Primary School to replace 1950s-era classrooms demolished during the school holidays.
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Victorian Education Minister James Merlino said the building would include two classrooms, an outdoor learning environment, store rooms and a group breakout area.
Warrnambool Primary School Principal Peter Auchettl said year three-four students would use the building's two classrooms, adjoined by a common area with an over-sized chessboard laid into the carpet.
"The internal walls will be able to move so you can create open learning space," Mr Auchettl said.
"If you look at our current site everything is quite structured; it is all in squares and boxes. This building will be on an angle so it is energy friendly. It will face north and utilise the breezes."
The $739,000 permanent building, constructed off-site, will fill a now-vacant space near Raglan Parade where the school's 1954 Block D classrooms sat until last month.
The state government demolished that block because its eaves contained asbestos with the new building paid for under the Victorian School Asbestos Removal Program.
Mr Auchettl said the works could cause disruptions outside the school on Raglan Parade when contractors delivered the prefabricated building from Geelong on May 20 and 21.
"The components will be placed on site via a crane from the delivery trucks that will be parked along Raglan Parade," he said.
"We are just asking the community to take extra care as they travel past the school."
The delivery of the modular building will not require road closure and traffic management will ensure the safe entry and exit of vehicles during the delivery process.
Mr Auchettl said the building was flexible to suit changing teaching needs and would fit alongside a growing number of contemporary learning spaces at the school.
"It's a transition from traditional-style buildings into flexible learning spaces," he said.
Students will be able to use the new building by July.
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