WITH the completion of five extra classrooms which would end its ''floating class system'', the 15th anniversary of St Teresa Secondary School was made especially meaningful.
Because of the limited number of classrooms, the senior students at St Teresa have had no home-room and instead moved from room to room to attend lessons.
However, with the campus extension project, which added one floor to the five-storey school tower, all students could now be settled, according to St Teresa's principal, Ms Hilda Kwan Wei-yin.
The $1.6 million project was paid for by 10 years of school savings and two fund-raising walkathons held in March and November.
While expressing gratitude to project sponsors - including past students and pupils' parents - Ms Kwan was disappointed about the failure of the Education Department to offer help.
She said it took too long to apply for grants for a large-scale project from the department.
Using a renovation project which had been awaiting approval for three years as an example, Ms Kwan said she had doubted ''the campus extension project would be approved by 1998''.