One morning this week the office staff started to get excited as they spotted vans on the site of the new build.  Sadly these were not from Balfour Beatty, but from Moray Council.  The running pitch was being marked out on the grass.  With the delay to the start of the construction work, to the delight of the PE staff, we are hoping to squeeze in another sports day early in June.

However, there have been a couple of interesting meetings.  The first was the Parent Council on Wednesday evening.  The presentation on possible rezoning for the Elgin Primary Schools helped to re-emphasise the need for the larger building for EHS than had first been thought.  The schools in Elgin South will be very close to capacity next session.  In a few years these pupils will be in secondary bringing the EHS roll to over 800 pupils – quite a change from the current 570.

On Friday, there was a meeting with Moray Council, Greenwards Primary and Balfour Beatty about the work extending Edgar Road to allow access to the new school building from the north.  This will be particularly important for construction work.  Planning for this is now well under way and hopefully before the end of this month work may be started.