CME Village

The village on our back lot is beginning to look more and more finished.  The skirting has been finished around the bottom portion of each portable.  Bathrooms are in the process of installation.  Decks and concrete pads are finished.  There is still a lot of mud but hopefully we will see green growing soon.

Below is a view of how our village is laid out.  Our leadership team is in the process of trying to decide on the best configuration of how to place classes in the portables.  This is the beginning of hundreds and hundreds of details and decisions that will have to be made. 

 The smaller portables are the bathrooms. 

 The girls' is on the left and the boys' is on the right. 

A Bit of Wiring

Last week, workers were in the building doing a bit of work in the ceiling.  They have been running wiring for the internet/server so that it can be fed out to the portables.  Looks like miles of wiring. 

This is in our copier room and is connected to the server. 

The wiring runs through the ceiling including this portion of the boys bathroom by the front stairs.  It will eventually go out to the portables.  Notice the old ceiling tiles...the ceilings were lowered in the 1983 renovation. 

Newest Pictures

Outdoor pictures of the building have been added to the Original Outdoor Photos tab of the blog.  If you have never been able to walk all the way around our building, you can now enjoy a pictorial tour. 

Pictures for the other tabs will be added ASAP.  There are lots of things in our school to photograph so that we can remember how it used to be. 

History of CME Building

Thanks to former principal, Barbara Albaugh, for providing information about previous addition and renovations of our building.  We are in the process of attempting to collect an historical timeline of CME for a future project. 

Fighting the Rain

In between the rain showers that are falling this morning, workers are busy pouring the concrete sidewalk and pads that will be used outside our portables. 

New Building Image

The picture below is the architectural rendering of what the front of our building will look like when it is complete.  The two story main entrance will be completely new.  It will be located in front of what is now our main entrance.  

Portables Update

You will notice that the skirting is going up around each portable now, but one side has been left exposed.  The exposed side is so that state inspectors can gain access to do an inspection at the end of this week in order to inspect each of the THIRTY tie-downs that are anchoring EACH portable.  In the next three weeks (hopefully with good weather), the electric meters will be installed and the decks will be complete.  After additional inspections we'll be given clearance to clean each portable and get it ready to occupy by the last day of school. 

CME Village

Although there hasn't been any activity going on within the building in regards to the renovation, our track area is a different story.  Despite the rain and weather, the crews have been busy bringing the portables in, hooking them up, and building steps and decks. 


This is our intermediate playground and track area at the beginning of the creation of our CME Village.

 

Equipment begins to arrive.

Concrete is laid for our foundations.

The portables began to arrive during dismissal - crazy times.

The portables come in halves and have to be put together and balanced with concrete blocks.



Each portable has a front and back entrance so steps need to be built. 

 This job takes lots of hands and trekking through the mud.

Back entrances

Front decks in progress......



What's Going On At Clays Mill

Clays Mill is undergoing a much needed renovation beginning June 6, 2011. Our school will be in the midst of many changes for about twenty months while construction is underway. Please watch the blog for photos and information as the construction progresses.