Courtesy of School District 57

By Veronica Beltran

New Kelly road expected for fall 2020

New Kelly Road School expected to open in fall 2020

Sep 4, 2019 | 11:18 AM

PRINCE GEORGE–The new Kelly Road Secondary school is one year away from opening its doors.

The new school, in the Hart Highway area of the city is expected to open in September 2020. The cost of the project is being shared between the BC government for $43.3 million and SD57 for $1 million.

The building will consist of the latest technology and design, and will accomodate 900 students. The school is being built behind the old Kelly Road school, which was built in the 1960’s and will be demolished once the new one is operating.

“This is the first time that it’s all being brought together all at once,” said Barry Bepple, School District No. 57’s Energy and Sustainable Conservation Coordinator. “We do all of this technology at individual locations throughout our district but this is the first opportunity we’ve had to build it and bring it all together as a collection of all the things we’ve been learning about.

Nino Maletta, the district’s General Manager, Facility Services, said the new Kelly Road has “a lot of connectivity,” and not just from a technology standpoint. The design, he said, will facilitate human connectivity in the form of face-to-face interaction.

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“It’s designed where there’s more ability for team teaching because a lot more of the walls are glass or they can slide out of the way or there are breakout spaces where group work can happen,” Maletta said. “That’s different than what we have in other schools. We have a little bit at Duchess but we carved out more spaces around the (new Kelly Road) to facilitate small group work. You don’t have to necessarily stay rigidly in your classroom to work on something.”

The new school will meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, meaning that it will meet the highest international certification standards for being environmentally friendly.

The completion of the new school will mark the end of the first phase, the second phase includes the demolition of the old Kelly Road, the removal of material, grading work, new roadways, bus lanes and parking lots.