Shiny new $50 million campus set to go

Wakatipu High School's new entrants prepare to enter their new school near Remarkables Park on Monday morning on their first day. The $50million-plus development, four years in the making, will fully open to the whole school today. Photo: Tracey Roxburgh

For the first time, Wakatipu High School will operate with all its pupils at their brand new campus in Frankton.

Staff and contractors have spent the past month completing the move from the school's home for the past 37 years, in Gorge Rd, to the $50million-plus, two-storey, 10,000sqm campus.

The starting roll would not be finalised for another week or so, but was expected to be between 980 and 1000 pupils, Mr Hall said.

Years 10-13 pupils visited the school for orientation sessions last week. Year 9 pupils started on Monday.

The first-year pupils were followed by their parents and the school hosted a barbecue and a tour.

Other parents would tour the school on Friday, and 75-minute tours would be held for the public on Saturday, at 10.30am and 1pm.

The school's move and the staged opening had gone ''really, really well'', Mr Hall said.

''There are still a few teething problems and ... that will go for some time.''

A problem with the building's climate-control system

had been rectified and it had been working well since, Mr Hall said.