Flower Beds!

For those that have not had a chance to see our new flower beds, here are some pictures of our renovation. Keeley Lowery, one of our Biology teachers, spearheaded this project. This was PTSO's give to the CHS community. Sharon Duquemin graciously designed the flower bed and Kevin Mitchell with Inspired Designs was instrumental in getting us great pricing on the plants, boulders and mulch. He also took care of us with more dirt. Gotta love more dirt! Please support his business as he has generously supported CHS. Thanks to all the students and parents that came up to save on the cost of labor. It looks great!

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Extreme School Makeover!

It was like Extreme Home Makeover during Spring Break. Take a look at the 3 story addition, but more importantly the band hall pictures. It's not quite done but there was a lot accomplished in one week.

Enjoy!

More Steel and Pics!

We have steel for the three story addition just about completed and we are continuing the process on the commons area. See the pictures today! Pretty exciting!

Big Weekend!

The walls came crumbling down this weekend in the band hall. We aren't done yet, but the band was able to get a feel for the amount of space that they will have when the project is completed. The directors are officially moved into their new office space...almost. Mr. Johnson is still waiting on his space to be completed.

We have brick on the exterior of the band hall practice rooms with paint on the walls. Hopefully Spring Break will be when we can tie that together with the existing band hall.

The gym expansion is almost completely bricked and now we wait for the right time to tear out the existing wall to tie in with the gym. There will be a temporary wall built inside the gym to allow this work to be completed while we are still having school.

If you drive around to the back of the building, you will see the commons area starting to take shape. It is pretty exciting! I'll get some of those pictures soon.

Enjoy your day!
RW

Check This Out!

Hello from CHS!

We have steel going up for the commons area and it is starting to take shape. Very cool.

I wanted to post a brief update to direct you to a new communication feature that our district is providing. Click HERE and then choose the February 2008 Edition for the latest segment of Inside Carroll. It is a 30 minute segment that has a ton of great information including yours truly discussing our construction at CHS.

Enjoy!

RW

Long Awaited Update

With the semester coming to a close and the students all taking finals, I have some time to update this blog. Here is the latest and greatest of each part of the renovation.

Library

All of our library furniture is in. We have a few pieces that need to be replaced, but all in all, it is here and almost ready for the grand re-opening. We have to still do some work to establish the library office and workroom, but the main portion of the library is looking great.

Band Hall

I have fielded a few questions about the band hall. The biggest concern/question has been "I thought it was going to get much bigger than what we are seeing". The addition that you can see from the road contains all of the practice rooms, office space, workroom and a percussion room. We have doubled our practice room space, added an extra office, provided a work space for the band boosters and developed a room for the drum line to fine tune their routines. All the space inside the band hall that was office space, storage and practice rooms is now opened up to make the actual band hall bigger. Just like the library, these are interior expansions that can't be appreciated from outside. Once it is done, you will definitely see a difference.

Commons Area

We have a slab and some steel already up. We are waiting for the rest of the steel which should be here sometime next week.

Gym

As you can tell from the road, we are moving right along with this piece. There is a deck that has been installed about 12' from the ground. This deck is where the new set of bleachers will be housed. Below that deck will be storage and a new dance studio for our dance classes. By utilizing that space, we are freeing up one of our gyms for other classes all without adding more square footage to the plan.

Classroom Addition

We have a slab. The steel is in fabrication. That is about all I have on that item.

We are moving right along. Thank you for your patience and support.

RW

Construction Update

It has been awhile since my last post. There was a bunch of activity today.

Steel and cinder block for the band hall expansion

Pouring grade beams for the three story addition







Steel for the gym expansion




We are moving right along. The commons area should have a completed foundation by the end of the week and the three story addition should have its foundation by the end of next week.

If I don't post again, have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Enjoy the time off.


RW