After fatal shooting, Nashville school renovates with a rainbow of colors

(25 Jun 2024)
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Nashville, Tennessee - 25 June 2024
1. Wide of steeple at The Covenant School
2. Tight on paper cranes
3. Mid on a painting of rainbows at The Covenant School
4. Wide of colorful signs inside a classroom
5. Wide of the front entrance of the school
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Trudy Waters, Head of School, The Covenant School:
"As we began thinking through moving back into the space, we had a lot of input on design, on structure, on the intentionality of how to make this a a safe, comfortable, inviting, engaging space for kids."
7. Wide of Trudy Waters waving to students off camera
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Trudy Waters, Head of School, The Covenant School:
"And every time we would meet as a group, it felt like the rainbow would show up. And you just can't make that up, you know, and it was constant. Those aren't the only three times. Those were just the three big hard markers for us to go, 'OK, we're going to keep moving forward because God's still with us.'"
9. Pan down on books organized in a rainbow
10. Push in on rainbow colored hallway
11. Pan across a painting made by students UPSOUND (English) Trudy Waters, Head of School, The Covenant School: ( talking about a painting made by students:)
"There was a hot dog on here somewhere at one point because one of the one of the children that lost their life, they loved hot dogs, and that's what they would eat together with their friends. So this is this is a real raw piece of what kids think through and think of as they move through the process of healing."
12. Display in school hallway UPSOUND (English) Trudy Waters, Head of School, The Covenant School (talking about the resilience of the students)
"It's been really amazing and just a privilege to be able to watch how the kids interact with each other and how they show up day in and day out. But they keep living, they keep smiling, they keep laughing and giggling and, you know, getting in trouble, you know, they do, they do all the things that kids do."
13. Pan down on student artwork on the walls
14. Tight on student artwork
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Trudy Waters, Head of School, The Covenant School:
"We've moved three times in a year, you know, so I mean, we've had a lot of ups and downs. So we feel like we're finally settled. It's time to give part of this hope and the story that that we get to see every day because we're the ones with the kids."
16. Wide on colorful paper cranes
STORYLINE:
A rainbow of colors greets students at The Covenant School in Nashville, recently renovated after a fatal school shooting in 2023.
The small Christian elementary school returned students to its classrooms earlier this spring, where paper cranes in all colors of the rainbow hang from the ceiling and cozy couches and chairs dot the hallways.
"As we began thinking through moving back into the space, we had a lot of input on design, on structure, on the intentionality of how to make this a a safe, comfortable, inviting, engaging space for kids," said Head of School Trudy Waters.
Waters said the rainbow became a theme during the renovations of the school because parents and students kept spotting rainbows in the sky whenever they gathered together after the shooting.
"There was also a rainbow that appeared a few weeks later when we had a meeting at another church in town, with the Metro Police Department," said Waters. "And every time we would meet as a group, it felt like the rainbow would show up."
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