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南洋小学部分校舍将于今年被拆除，新校舍将于2014年底竣工。在此期间，小一和小二学生将移至位于5, Toh Tuck Road的临时校舍上学。小三至小六学生依旧在旧校舍上学。
Nanyang Primary to raze old blocks in $30m revamp
The Straits Times | Sun Oct 14 2012
SINGAPORE - The original Nanyang Primary School, which was built atop a hill on King's Road in 1975, will be demolished this year, along with an extension constructed in 1985.
These two sections, which make up about 40 per cent of the school in Bukit Timah, will be rebuilt to a "more modern" design by the end of 2014, said principal Lee Hui Feng.
Estimated to cost $30 million, the new construction will include a classroom block, indoor sports hall, gymnasium and performing arts studios.
During the construction works, Primary 1 and 2 pupils will go to a holding school at 5, Toh Tuck Road, while Primary 3 to 6 pupils will remain at King's Road. But parents living near the temporary premises in Toh Tuck will not get priority for their children to enrol in the popular primary school.
Primary 1 registration rules give some priority to children who live near a school, and priority for this hotly sought-after school will still go to those living in the proximity of the King's Road campus, said Mrs Lee.
Speaking to The Straits Times at the school yesterday, she said the decision to tear down the school's oldest blocks was based on necessity.
Some of the classrooms are 56 sq m in area, short of the Education Ministry's latest specifications of 90 sq m, said Mrs Lee.
The ceilings in the older buildings also leaked sometimes, and the toilets were "very old and small", but could not be renovated because of the existing plumbing.
The new classrooms in the rebuilt section will be used by Primary 5 and 6 pupils, and 240 children from the Nanyang Kindergarten.
Mrs Lee foresees that the next two years will be challenging, as pupils will have to make do with the lack of facilities.
"Rooms that are used for learning in the day will have to double up as co-curricular activity rooms in the afternoon," she said.
Though she looks forward to the expansion, Mrs Lee said she felt a tinge of sadness over the demolition of spaces where pupils played sports or learnt musical instruments and other art forms.
Current pupils also had a list of school haunts they would miss such as the eco garden, pavilion, and old basketball court.
Said Madam Lau Hwai Bing, 44, a teacher at the school whose mother used to teach there, and whose daughter is currently a student: "I feel sad saying goodbye to the old things, but I'm also excited about the facilities the younger generation will get to enjoy."
Mrs Lee said she hopes to transplant an old fig tree to the rebuilt campus, and plans to keep pieces of the rubble for history's sake.
"Just like what happened when the Berlin Wall fell," she said.
She also plans to display pictures of the old buildings in the rebuilt campus, so pupils and teachers with memories of school days there could "keep telling the stories" to incoming pupils.
The school organised two homecomings for alumni, in April and last month. After these events, Mrs Lee said she received e-mail messages from many former pupils hoping to visit the old buildings before they were torn down.
She now opens the school on some nights and weekends for alumni to visit. She said former president Ong Teng Cheong's sons will be visiting the school over the next two weekends。
The school boasts some famous former pupils, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his siblings, Mr Lee Hsien Yang and Dr Lee Wei Ling。
Said Mrs Lee: "It warms my heart to know that ex-pupils want to come back, and it gives me the chance to meet alumni across the generations."
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