IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE SITE TODAY...

you're sure of a big surprise! Well, on Tuesday we did.

This is what it looks like already. The red thing at the front of the picture is the bottomof the crane.
This is what it is like standing in the middle in the atrium (that's a fancy word for the space in the middle where the sun comes in the top) looking up where the rooflight will be. You will be able to see the sky. The big thing sticking up with 'Waycon' written on it is the lift shaft and the orange coloured bits that go around all the edges are the 'edge protection' to stop people falling off while it is being built. Can you see us in the picture?


This is the view out of the front door from the position of the new reception desk.

Earlier we asked what on earth had happened to the park, well this is what. It's the drilling rig that is making holes that go down into the ground over 100m (that's a long way), there are 23 holes needed (we think), that's 2.3kilometres of hole, that's nearly one and a half miles!!! If you go to the park in the next few days you can see the drilling, if you're lucky you might see the big fountain of water, as high as a house, take your umbrella.

Later they will put pipes down the holes and get heat out of the ground to heat the school. We told you about how it all works before, use the 'search box' in the navigation bar at the top of the BLOG to look for 'monster machines' to find out more. After visiting the site and the park we went to the junior school to a meeting with Evelyn and Lynne so that Kath (the model making wiz from before) could talk about the layouts for all the furniture and the colours for the carpets and the walls and things.

Perhaps some of you have ideas how the new school should look...you could draw your class. What colour would it be, what would it have in it? What other ideas do you have? We'd love to see what you think and may be we can put some on the BLOG.