Schools may still be out for summer, but there is no shortage of work happening inside of them.
It is always a busy time of year for facilities staff, according to the superintendent of the Anglophone South School District.
Zoë Watson said when teachers and school-based staff go home for the summer, custodians begin a deep clean of the district’s 69 schools.
“I think it’s important to note our buildings are not air-conditioned, so our custodians do work in some pretty tropical conditions,” Watson said in a recent interview.
It is also a busy time of year for district employees who work in maintenance and trades positions.
Watson said there are many projects big and small happening throughout the district, which spans from Sussex to St. Stephen.
“Paving projects and roofing and ventilation systems and window replacements and painting and things like that,” she said.
Watson said close to 200 high school students took part in a summer school program at St. Malachy’s Memorial High School in Saint John, with satellite operations in Sussex in St. Stephen.
At the middle level, the district’s behaviour intervention mentors put on 13 summer programs that lasted for five weeks, she said
Students will begin heading back to class on Tuesday, Sept. 6.
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