Open house set at new SES building
Published 9:14 am Wednesday, February 28, 2018
- SES kindergarten student Marlee Kate Geohagan reviews her work Tuesday with Covington County Schools Superintendent Shannon Driver. SES recently opened a new early learning center. The community is invited to an open house from 5:30 until 7 p.m. Thursday.
Members of the Covington County Board of Education and local media got a sneak peak of Straughn Elementary School’s Early Learning Center on Tuesday, just ahead of an open house set from 5:30 until 7 Thursday night.
Board member Jeff Bailey closes the interior steel s hutter of a new SES classroom that doubles as a shelter.
SES Principal Bettye Anne Older said Pre-K and kindergarten classrooms were moved into the 9,926 square foot facility in January. The facility was constructed as a total FEMA-rated shelter.
“We were able to put 900 children in here in a tornado drill last week,” Older said.
All of Straughn Elementary’s students were moved to classrooms and middle school students moved to the hallway. “
The students were in place within five minutes, she said.
“And amazingly, it was quiet.”
The FEMA-rated building was built to withstand an EF5 tornado. The reinforced masonry building has a concrete roof deck, reinforced interior and exterior walls, steel indoor window shutters, double steel exterior doors, a fresh air ventilation system for the whole building, first aid kits, and a community system.
Tucker Ward, Kyera Harris, Mallory Hall and Drew Ferguson.
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