City school gets new classrooms

 By SHIRLEY MAULUDU

STUDENTS of Sunrise Bethel Christian School in Port Moresby have all the reason to smile when the school opened three new classrooms last Friday.  

Principal Roger Tumes said the students were excited as the new classrooms were spacious and will give senior grades more space to move around to do their classroom activities compared to smaller classrooms they have been using. 

Tumes said previous rooms were close to each other and smaller.

“The rooms are close to each other and when someone is having devotion next door, everybody hears them singing – so it’s very nice out here.”

He said the new classrooms took six months to build and the students have been using them since end of term one.  

The new classrooms accommodated grades four, five and six – they each have a class of about 34 students. 

The classrooms were funded through students’ school fees with support from Adelaide Christian School, in Australia, and cost about K400,000. 

Tumes said with new classrooms, students will be excited to learn more. 

“They are very talented children and they all read amazingly well. They pick up things really quickly and we’re really blessed to be here.”

The school has 240 students from prep to Grade 6 with only one class of each year level and 14 teaching staff.

Tumes hopes to see the school expand.

“We’re looking at least get two more classroom blocks when we get to grade eight and then see what God wants to do after there.

“We’d like to go into high school but I’m not sure about that at this stage.”