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Speaker 1: Heller duple see Alan speaking of building, the Ministry of

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Speaker 1: Education has warned the government that it needs to get

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Speaker 1: on with building new schools and classrooms because of a

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Speaker 1: role bulge that's moving through schools and incoming migration. It

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Speaker 1: reckons one hundred and thirty nine schools are already over

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Speaker 1: their classroom capacity. Tim Botting is the principle of Ormiston

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Speaker 1: Senior College and with us, Hey.

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Speaker 2: Tim, Hey, how's it going.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very well, thank you. How bad is it

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Speaker 3: with you? Guys?

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't said it's bad. We're definitely experiencing the role growth.

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Speaker 2: We're currently got fourteen hundred students in a building that's

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Speaker 2: designed for eleven hundred and twenty five. So we've had

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Speaker 2: to make some adjustments within our space is to accommodate

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Speaker 2: those students.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like teaching in your cafe, aren't you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, We've We've got to use some cafe space. Our

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Speaker 2: library space now has students in it. We're hoping really well.

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Speaker 2: Our staff have adapted brilliantly, and our students are doing

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Speaker 2: really well in the space. And thankfully the Ministry is

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Speaker 2: working really well at the school to bring in some

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Speaker 2: short term role growth buildings. At the end of the

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Speaker 2: year to move ahead with the full build going on

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Speaker 2: later on the year.

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Speaker 3: You're getting another ten temporary classrooms. Is that enough?

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Speaker 2: No, But these plans in place that are working forward.

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Speaker 2: I think we're in a position in Ormiston because we're

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Speaker 2: identified as a very high growth area by the Ministry

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Speaker 2: Education as well. They're aware of our situation. So we've

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Speaker 2: got those ten coming in and then we'll have another

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Speaker 2: ten by the end of the year and potentially another

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Speaker 2: ten next year while they are building a twelve classroom

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Speaker 2: extension to our current block.

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Speaker 1: Tim, thank you very much, really appreciate it. I mate,

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Speaker 1: that's Timbotting the principle of Ormiston Senior College.

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