Welches Primary closed due to water outage

The water woes of a rural school continue this term as the institution has closed early due to a water outage.

NATIONNEWS understands that just about 190 students and staff of Welches Primary School, Welches, St Thomas have been affected by the outage.

Just before midday teachers began making calls to parents and guardians to collect their wards.

Last term, teaching days were lost also due to a number of outages that caused the institution to remain closed for several of days. (SDB MEDIA)