It is safe to say that Henderson elementary did not have a normal start to the school year. With construction all summer, it was sure that if they didn’t get help, they would not be ready for kids to come.
“There were like, hundreds of volunteers that came to help,” second grade teacher Kirstie Mullins said.“I’m not sure how we would have been able to have school without all the help that we did have, moving furniture, moving boxes, unloading pods.”
Not only did the classrooms have to get set up, but the kitchen was behind, so FHN stepped up to help send food over during this time of having no kitchen.
“The kitchen was not ready, so we hadn’t quite passed our food inspection, our health and safety inspection, and not because there was anything wrong, but just because we weren’t even ready to do the inspection yet,” Mullins said.“There wasn’t an oven in the kitchen, it was kind of just an empty space, and still needed work.”
Before, the kids would have to get their lunch and walk to the multipurpose room to eat, because the gym and kitchen shared a space. Now that space will be the cafeteria and the new construction will be the gym.
