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INTRODUCTION

Nearly THREE HUNDRED School Children in Hampshire are back at their desks today after fire gutted their classrooms almost two weeks ago. The pupils from Colden Common Primary School, near Winchester, have been having lessons at other schools while County Council officials and teachers have been trying to bring things back to normal. Our Reporter, Robin Worman, was at the school when the fire happened and has been back to see what's going on. He spoke to the Headmaster, Malcolm Roberts, who says they've just got to take things in their stride….

Item: Colden Common School
Dur: 3'15"
Out: (Children's voices) Amen

B/A Robin Worman reporting on lessons starting again at Colden Common School which was burned down nearly a fortnight ago.

AND NOW HERE IS THE FEATURE

Cut: Headteacher lookback
Dur: 30"
Out: Quite honestly and digger fx bed, (fade fx after 5 seconds for bed to v/o.)

Within a couple of hours the building was gutted and there was no choice but to pull it down as quickly as possible in the succeeding days and lay plans for a new school.

In the meantime the small matter of nearly THREE HUNDRED children to be housed and taught until temporary classrooms were available on site. They were put on buses every morning for three weeks and shipped to other schools in the area under the watchful eye of Malcolm Roberts, Eric Smith, the Schools Officer for Hampshire and of course, anxious parents…

Cut: Parents Vox Pop (Fade in fx under 'Schools Officer')
Dur: 53"
Out: bus fx fade out

Three weeks later, on May the FIFTEENTH, the children return to their old school site, now a veritable village of temporary classrooms

Cut: Children & Bell fx Bed (fade in fx under temporary classrooms)
Dur:10"
Out: fx fade out

(v/o start after end of school bell)
At a special assembly that morning, the Headmaster, Malcolm Roberts, told his pupils that the temporary new buildings were actually not the most important thing….

Cut: Roberts assembly
Dur:27"
Out: equally good school

Finally, one of the School Governors, a Methodist minister, John Archer, said a special prayer for the new, if temporary, Colden Common School

Cut Governor Prayer
Dur:25"
Out: (Children's voices) Amen