Well, students at Red Rock Elementary School started this school year on a new to them temporary campus.

Let me explain what I mean.

The more than 50 year old Red Rock Elementary School closed at the end of the school year so that a brand new building could be built in its place.

We were there on the last day of school when students and staff said goodbye to the old Red Rock Elementary School.

It was a day full of mixed emotions and that's why we wanted to catch up with students and staff once again, this time at their temporary location on the roof five campus to see how they are doing and a look toward the future.

Well, you know, they say your home is where you are and your heart is in the red rock.

Although our building is gone, that love and that spirit is life.

You know, it's here.

I mean, Red Rock, since I'm pretty, um, in good.

Um, fifth grade.

I think I can count that as Red Rock as, um, even though we're, like, Route five right now, I'm.

Red Rock is still being rebuilt, so we're still, like, part of the program, at first, you know, they knocked down a couple of buildings.

You know, they broke up the pavement and all that.

But then I went back the next week and it was completely demolished.

And I'm I don't know, it just kind of makes your heart just stop a little, you know?

But yeah, it's definitely an emotion and then you just see the market standing.

Then you're like, Oh, it's really gone.

Like, okay, a new chapter.

Here we go.

I think the idea that after this year we're going to have a brand new building is making everything thing easier.

But it's going to be exciting because there's going to be so many windows, lots of, you know, fresh light getting in for our students.

There will be a lot more places for the kids to play, a lot more textures.

A courtyard in the center that can be used for outside learning.

So I'm just really excited about all the opportunities we'll be able to have for education at the new site.

I hope that it makes our students feel proud to go there.

I hope that it's a place that everyone is happy every day to go to.

and you can be sure we will also be there when the brand new Red Rock Elementary School opens for the start of the 2024, 2025 school year and students and staff return home back to their new school on its original site.