Surfside celebrates 25 years of education

TIME flies when you’re having fun and, evidently, so does the time capsule for Surfside Primary School, which recently celebrated its 25th birthday.

The time capsule, buried by staff and students 25 years ago, was unable to be located as part of their quarter century celebrations, which saw past staff, students and parents return to Surfside Primary.

Principal Mark Huglin said the day and night celebrations began with a birthday breakfast for the whole school with Lindsay Fisher (the school’s original principal) in attendance.

“He opened the school back in 1993 and was here for the whole day. We had people returning to Surfside, it was like an open day for people to come back and see the school.

“Student leaders took them on tours throughout the day and in the evening, we had a Surfside reunion that was attended by current and former staff and parents as well as past students.”

Mr Huglin said there was 100 people in attendance and it was a fantastic night and opportunity to reminisce, alongside memorabilia that had been collected over the years.

“We had people in attendance whose kids are now going here, the second generation is coming through. We still have Geoff Cunningham on staff, he’s a founding member,” he said.

“Unfortunately, we were unable to locate the time capsule. It’s one of those things; how deep do we want to dig is the issue.”

Mr Huglin said a lot of people commented on how established the school now felt having originally been nothing more that a building on a cow paddock.

“There were absolutely no trees or flora. Now 25 years later we have a beautiful garden. The things that make a house feel like a home; well, people noticed that the school feels like a home now because all those things have grown up around it,” he said.