Masons Cove ‘green’ school readies for kids
ROANOKE COUNTY – Contractors are still grading the parking lot out front, but inside the new Masons Cove, classrooms are ready and teachers and staff are excited about opening day Monday, Aug. 22.
Media and area school superintendents and associates got a tour of the building today.
Among them were Salem Superintendent Dr. Alan Seibert and Assistant Superintendent Mike Bryant.
Kindergarten teacher Elizabeth Mills already has all her 19 students’ names on their new desks and classroom books and accompanying stuffed animals labeled in colorful crates.
“I can’t get over how it’s all come together,” said an excited Mills, who taught first grade at Masons Cove in the old school heated by a coal-fired furnace.
The new building has abundant skylights and energy efficient windows, as well as a geo-thermal system that provides the majority of its air conditioning and heating from underground pipes of water which remains at a constant earth temperature.
Masons Cove and the rest of Roanoke County Public Schools will welcome their students on Monday. Salem City Schools do not open until the day after Labor Day.
