Taloyoak's Netsilik School vandalized over the weekend

School officials in Taloyoak, Nunavut, are picking up the pieces after school equipment and materials weredestroyed on Sunday.

Principal Gina Pizzo says $4,000 worth of school supplies and equipment that had come on the sealift were vandalizedoutside NetsilikSchool.

Shesays she is grateful that some residents called police.

"[It's] really nice when people do come forward to stop that kind of activity when they see it happening, or help cleanup afterwards," she says.

"We do really appreciateall the people pitched in to help us clean up the mess. Hopefully we won't see any more of this activity going on anytime soon."

Pizzo says some material cannot be salvaged and replacements will have to be flown into the community.

She says RCMP are investigating.