Completion of a new school building for integrated education in elementary and junior high schools in the disaster area Miyagi, Onagawacho, August 23, 19:34
Elementary school students and junior high school students will conduct integrated education in the same school building due to the decrease in the number of children in Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture, which was damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and a ceremony to celebrate the completion of the new school building on the 23rd Opened
In Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture, an elementary school and a junior high school were located in different places, but due to the decrease in the number of children and students after the earthquake, elementary school and junior high school students will be provided with integrated education in the same school building. It was.
On the 23rd, a ceremony was held to celebrate the completion of the new school building, which was attended by the sixth graders of Onagawa Elementary School, the third graders of Onagawa Junior High School, and people from Qatar in the Middle East who supported the project costs.
At the ceremony, Hinako Endo, a sixth grader in elementary school, said, "I don't have much memory at the time of the earthquake, but we, who grew up with the reconstruction, want to learn with the same big dreams as this school building."
The new school building, built in the center of the town, is a four-storey reinforced concrete building that accommodates approximately 300 elementary and junior high school students.
Onagawa elementary school and junior high school will hold school festivals and other school events together, and junior high school teachers will take charge of elementary school English and music classes.
Mayor Yoshiaki Suda of Onagawa-cho said, "I hope that this school building will not only be a place of learning, but that the whole area will be energized."