Construction for an addition to be built on to St. Davids Public School is slated to begin next fall, according to a District School Board of Niagara planning report.

The roughly $2 million project includes the addition of seven new classrooms, library, gymnasium storage, unisex washrooms, a learning resource centre, kindergarten playground area and a new driveway with additional parking and kiss and ride area.

The addition is a result of the Niagara-on-the-Lake accommodation review in which school board staff recommended that Laura Secord Public School in Queenston close and its students will be merged with St. Davids.

Lynn Campbell, the town's trustee, said tendering for the project is slated to begin in Spring 2009.

"The project will expand the capacity of St. Davids to house the additional students," Campbell said. "To help alleviate the costs, the school itself has been doing plenty of fundraising."

Tony D'Alessandro, principal of St. Davids and Laura Secord, said students have been working hard to raise money through a fundraiser that involved selling magazine subscriptions.

D'Alessandro said if more than 450 subscriptions are sold, then teacher Ken Lamb will shave his head.

"We're calling it the shearing of the lamb," D'Alessandro said. "He's had a mullet for a very long time. It's time for him to lose it."

D'Alessandro said the head shaving is a nice way to get the students excited about the fundraising. If more than 500 subscriptions are sold, then D'Alessandro said he will spend a day on the roof.

D'Alessandro said an official closing of Laura Secord is being planned.

"It will be hard," he said of the closing. "But we have to look towards the future."