School education director for Dubbo Jane Cavanagh yesterday spoke the words that devastated residents of the village so desperately wanted to hear.

“We will be rebuilding at Eumungerie,” she said.

Late yesterday afternoon Ms Cavanagh and Eumungerie school principal Heather Thompson were to meet with parents at the village’s hotel to reveal a plan for getting children back to their studies on Monday.

Demountable accommodation is set to be installed in the school grounds within the next few days, possibly this afternoon, Ms Cavanagh told the Daily Liberal.

Classes on Monday would kick-off under an existing “covered learning area” before the school’s 23 children got a chance to check out their new-look and temporary schoolhouse furnished with donations from Dubbo and Gilgandra schools, she said.

Ms Cavanagh revealed that the intact library of the closed Drinane Public School would be gradually transferred for the benefit of the Eumungerie children.

Wednesday’s fire destroyed two classrooms, the library, canteen, computer room and outdoor learning area at the school that opened its doors to learning in 1904.

Eumungerie bushfire brigade members, who were on the scene within 10 minutes of a triple-0 call at 4.34am, kept the fire from destroying surrounding buildings including the administration building where important records are stored and a new but unfinished classroom paid for with federal stimulus package cash.