A NEW secondary school in Kg Meragang equipped with quality equipment and systematic infrastructure is expected to provide a better and more conducive teaching and learning environment for all the Form Six students once it begins it full operation in January 2009.
Yesterday witnessed the key handing-over ceremony at the new school on its spacious 12 acre land, enough to accommodate up to 1,200 students and 40 classrooms. The whole school is further equipped with ICT rooms, an art room with an additional dark room facilities for photography as well as a gallery and exhibition area to showcase students' work.
In catering to special needs students, the new school offers several facilities for disabled students, including an elevator for students in wheelchairs to move about more easily without any problems.
One of the more impressive features of the new school is the sunken amphitheater, built outdoors as a new and innovative way for students to learn in a new environment away from the traditional classrooms.
The Kg Meragang Secondary School is a project under the 8th National Development Plan that was managed by the Ministry of Education's Department of Estate Planning and Management and supervised by the Public Works Department at the Ministry of Development.
At the cost of $16.4 million, the construction of the school began last year on February 8 and was completed in early August of this year. This project is a milestone in the aspirations of the sultanate to create more skilled labour in the country in the near future.
Yesterday's ceremony saw Pg Anak Hjh Norhasimah, Director of Development of the Public Works Department, handing over the keys to Hj Mohd Daud Hj Mahmud, permanent secretary (Higher Education) of the Ministry of Education, who was guest of honour at the event.
Hj Mohd Daud then toured the school premises, including the school's laboratories and library, accompanied by Pg Anak Hjh Norhasimah.Present at the event were personnel attached to the MOE.(AIS1)
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