(Photo: Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools)

By Dan Hermanutz

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St Patrick’s Community School hosts Rededication and Blessing Ceremony

Feb 4, 2020 | 3:06 PM

St Patrick’s Community School in Red Deer has a new lease on life after a long modernization period.

The school was partially closed for over a year while major renovations were done.

“(The building) was starting to show its age even though Red Deer Catholic does an amazing job of taking care of our buildings,” said Terri Lynn Mundorf, the school’s principal.

Staff, students, dignitaries and community members gathered Tuesday morning for an official rededication and blessing ceremony at the school.

“You heard the kids speak this morning, they love the chapel, the makerspace areas, and all the room in the hallways and it just looks so contemporary in the design. They did an amazing job with the interior design.”

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The school is home to around 650 students from kindergarten to grade nine. They were bounced around to different classrooms throughout the building while construction was ongoing. For the last year, kindergarten and grade one students spent the full year at St. Teresa of Avila School due to a lack of space during that time.

The upgrades fixed detreating issues and introduced new areas and characteristics to the school. Classrooms are now separated by garage style doors that can open up and join classrooms, larger hallways and a makerspace area where students can create things.

“When we have the furniture for the makerspace, that will be filled with all kinds of LEGO and games and robotics and the Spiros will be out there,” says Mundorf. “It just adds another dimension to St. Pat’s in the breadth of programing we offer. And those are critical skills, to learn to use LEGO, do some coding in there, build things. Now we have the space where teachers can take their class into and use them.”

The school returned to normal operations in early December, something Mundorf said everyone from students to staff and parents were looking forward to.

“We were so happy to get our school back. We were all excited; it was like an early Christmas present for us.”