08 Oct 2011
Plans taking shape for our 150th celebration
Our planning meetings will now be held at 6pm on Wednesdays before the P&C meeting. Our next meeting being on the 6th April.
Friday 4th November will be a school-based focus on the history of our school with classrooms coming alive with memories from the past. The official ceremony for the weekend will be held at midday and include activities such as the opening of a time capsule.
On Saturday 5th November we will be booking amusement rides and opening the school to the public to view displays and performances. It will be a chance for ex-students and teachers to get together and remember days gone by. A Dinner Dance will be held in the evening at the Civic Centre.
Please contact me at school or on the email if you have any other ideas for the days.
www.wellington-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au
Feel free to join our committee and we are seeking representatives from all of our Year groups.
We are already getting pleasing feedback from ex-students and staff. Please pass the word around.
The quiz answer from last week reads as follows:
The first Public School was opened at Montefiores by "Daddy King" then mid way through 1860 Henry Lambert and some other men made a formal application to the Board of Education for a "national school" at Wellington on 18th July 1861 and approved in September 1861.
A tiny slab building with a bark roof comprising of 2 classrooms was offered in Gisborne Street.
Then there were changes made in the following years the above building disappeared but a new brick building was erected on the corner of Lee and Gisborne Street (now site of Woolworth's Petrol Station) which had a residence. This closed for a short while and reopened on 25th March 1867.