14 Aug 2024

130 Wellington Girls' College students arrive to parliament

From Checkpoint, 5:42 pm on 14 August 2024

Around a tenth of students from Wellington Girls' College turned up to Parliament grounds today saying they had nowhere else to go. All 1300 students were sent home on Monday after a main teaching block was revealed as earthquake prone. About 130 students spent their day sitting in a makeshift classroom on the lawn in front of Parliament, studying and playing a game of football, Rachel Helyer Donaldson reports.