EVERYONE is invited to join in the festivities when the Mount Pleasant Primary School community celebrates a major milestone.<\/p>\n
Next month, the school will join the prestigious list of state-built institutions reaching 150 years of operation.<\/p>\n
Mount Pleasant Primary School’s business manager Janine Schulze said the event will be amplified by public involvement.<\/p>\n
“On the day we’ll have our original building, which will be turning 150 years old, open for people to come and walk around and tour the classrooms,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We’ll have photo displays running from a TV and in our arts centre we’ll have the [Mount Pleasant History Group] there with our old photos and enrolment records on display.<\/p>\n
“There’ll also be a display from the Albert Coates Foundation there because he was a well-known person in the area who went to the school and became a doctor.<\/p>\n
“Each year our grade 6 students do a project on Albert Coates so they’ll be there with their display and information as well.<\/p>\n
“It’s a fantastic milestone. We’ve celebrated 100 years, 125, now 150 years, which is amazing. We’re very lucky to have the history group doing a lot of work for this too.”<\/p>\n
The event will be opened with a smoking ceremony and the school’s choir performing an original piece created last year about the school’s history.<\/p>\n
Tea, coffee, and a birthday cake will be available for attendees while a book fair of children’s literature will feature with funds to go towards the school’s library.<\/p>\n
Ms Schulze said many past students have expressed interest in returning, with some to visit from interstate.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got people coming as far as Canberra and maybe a group from Western Australia,” she said. “A lot of people in their 70s and 80s are interested.<\/p>\n
“For our 125th anniversary, we planted a time capsule but it’s a mystery where we put it because no one can remember.<\/p>\n
“In trying to find it, we’ve found little artefacts like Selkirk bricks and old coins.<\/p>\n
“That’ll be a bit of a guessing game because we’re hoping someone from the community in attendance will remember where it was planted.”<\/p>\n
Commemorative 150th anniversary glasses will be for sale. The event will run from 10am to 2pm on Saturday 19 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EVERYONE is invited to join in the festivities when the Mount Pleasant Primary School community celebrates a major milestone. Next month, the school will join the prestigious list of state-built institutions reaching 150 years of operation. Mount Pleasant Primary School’s business manager Janine Schulze said the event will be amplified by public involvement. “On the […]<\/p>\n