Unusually large replacement windows for the vandalized Golden Horn Elementary School are already on the assembly line.

'We were busy with the (2007 Canada Winter Games) athletes' village stuff, but we said we would move something aside and get these windows punched out as quickly as possible,' Northerm Windows president David Borud said this morning.

Borud said the company works closely with the Yukon government's property management section, and notified the branch as soon as it heard of its willingness to adjust its production schedule.

'Some of the windows they (the vandals) busted are 117 inches long,' Borud pointed out. 'It just happened that we have a bunch of glass for the athletes' village job that is 130 inches long.

'So we had the glass needed to actually build these windows.'

Otherwise, the school may have had to wait for a special order of glass to come in, he said.

The RCMP are continuing their investigation into the vandalism that occurred at about 3 a.m. Tuesday.

Whitehorse Cpl. Tom Wyers said this morning police have reviewed the original footage from the security copies, and were waiting for the arrival of working copies to continue their scrutiny of the tapes.

The exterior cameras captured four culprits on tape.

Police were alerted of the break-in by a security company that monitors the school alarm system. Officers were on the scene at 3:22 and actually heard voices coming from the bush and the crunching of snow but were unsuccessful in their attempts to catch the suspects, who dashed deeper into the bush. The police dog was out of town.

Meanwhile, things are beginning to return to normal at the elementary school after it was forced to stay closed Tuesday because of the extent of damage.

Principal Chris Wright said this morning, there were still two classrooms closed because traces of broken glass are still being found in those two areas.

'There was a tremendous amount of broken glass,' Wright said. 'There is no way the students could have come here yesterday.'

The principal said a special assembly was held this morning to discuss the situation with the students, many of whom were upset by the damage to their Carcross Cutoff-area school.

He said one kindergarten student pretty much summed it up at the assembly when she said: 'This is not fair, this is our school.'

Both the school staff and staff from the property management branch deserve applause for their efforts in cleaning up the mess, Wright said.

The principal is also thanking the bands from both F.H. Collins and Porter Creek secondary schools for rejigging an already-tight schedule to make room for a performance at Golden Horn this afternoon. The bands had been scheduled to be there Tuesday.

Evidence suggests the vandals gained entry through the principal's window. They entered the library by kicking in the door, and ransacked other areas of the school that they could access.

Had individual classrooms like the computer room not been locked, Wright suspects, the damage could have been much worse, though his computer was destroyed.

Several windows were smashed in. One classroom had all the windows smashed, and today is without any daylight coming in.

Wright said he hopes the culprits are caught and brought to justice, and are made to apologize to the students and staff of Golden Horn.

The Department of Education has estimated damage at $10,000.

Across the territory, vandals generally cause about $50,000 in damage to Yukon schools annually, more so in the Whitehorse area than in the rural communities, according to the department.