Pupils at Prospect Primary are finally getting something they have always wanted ? a school library.

Teachers and staff were putting up shelves yesterday in the new space created specifically for this purpose.

But that?s not the only ?new? addition to the school this year.

Thanks to ongoing work over the summer, Prospect Primary now also has two special rooms for one-on-one learning support.

Learning support and reading recovery teacher Patrice Pachai said yesterday that she was excited at the prospect of using this new space with pupils.

Ms Pachai said in the past she had to improvise by making do with what space she could find in a classroom and most of the time the pupils had to sit on the floor.

But not anymore.

Thanks to the Department of Education?s Facilities Manager, Jeane Butterfield, the school also boasts two new storage spaces on the upper level and a cleaned up and re-floored tuck-shop that can be used in the future for special events.

?With a few new appliances of course,? Ms Butterfield said.

She said most schools on the Island had some kind of face-lift over the summer, but Prospect needed the most work as it had been rather neglected in the past.

She said the school would also be getting a new gymnasium floor within the next few weeks.

?It?s a new type of wood that?s harder than the type we currently use and we?re going to pilot it at Prospect before installing it anywhere else,? she said, adding that it was a pre-finished product which meant that it could be put in over a weekend and was four times harder and stronger than the current floor in the gymnasium, which would increase its life span.

?We are also planning to install new filtered water drinking fountains at many of the schools on the Island,? she said.

Ms Butterfield added that they would gradually rejuvenate the washrooms at Prospect.