Education minister Diallo Rabain told the House of Assembly last night that Dellwood Middle School would be open to students on Monday.

Mr Rabain told MPs during the debate on the Throne Speech that all classrooms had now been certified safe for human occupancy.

“Dellwood will be open on Monday,” he said. “All the rooms you [the One Bermuda Alliance] ignored have been certified safe for human occupancy.”

Mr Rabain later told The Royal Gazette that while the school will be open on Monday, the gym, cafeteria and the library would remain closed and sealed while remediation work continued.

He said that remediation work on the gym, which required a new roof, was “long term” and it would take several months before it was ready to be used.

The Salvation Army gym and youth centre gym directly across the street are available to the school.

Mr Rabain said: “They have already worked out schedules when gym times are and everything.”

He added: “Test results for the area that was in question came back negative. That was the only area of the school that was stopping us from opening it on Wednesday.”

Mr Rabain said that out of “an abundance of caution” he made the decision to do testing in additional rooms that concerns had been raised over.

The Minister’s announcement in the House of Assembly last night came after parents attended a meeting organised by the Ministry of Education at CedarBridge Academy at 5.30pm.

Dellwood did not open for regular school activities this week. Students spent Monday and Tuesday at home, and met briefly in the building’s amphitheatre on Wednesday, before being housed in the Salvation Army. In an update on Wednesday, the Ministry said students would be sent to TN Tatem Middle School and Clearwater Middle School on Monday and Tuesday next week.