THE new d’Auvergne School opened its doors for the first time this morning.

The smell of fresh paint was still in the corridors as 250 children made their way to their new classrooms.

The £6.4 million primary school on the old Jersey College for Girls playing fields opened two days later than the rest of the Island’s schools to give staff time to move in.

There are displays up on the classroom walls and head teacher Ann Curzons says d’Auvergne already looks lived in.

She said: ‘The children are all coming in and it is a lovely atmosphere.

They are all very happy and the sunshine makes it brilliant.

We have had such a lovely morning.

I feel as if I’m back home now.

‘There has been lots of lifting and shifting and now it is real because I can hear the children playing in the playground behind me.’ She said the building work was virtually finished and the children had started coming into school at about 8.20 am.