CELEBRATIONS will be held later this year to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Kerang South Primary School.
A back-to-school reunion is planned for Saturday, October 28, between 10am and 4pm.
The school was built in Mitchell Street and attracted an initial enrolment of 132 students.
Classes had a delayed start in 1967. Construction was not completed in time for the start of the school year and students shared facilities with Kerang Primary School during the first half of the year.
It was the first State school to be equipped with evaporative air conditioning.
Current principal, Lyn Veall said that celebrations will include school tours, a long lunch and opening of a time capsule that was buried in the school grounds after the 25th anniversary celebrations.
The organising committee had established a Facebook page, and is encouraging people with a connection to the school to lodge details, including years at the school and where they are now.
The school’s golden jubilee committee is also encouraging former students, staff and parents to join the organising committee.
Ms Veall said that former students and parents are encouraged to submit snippets of their memories of their time at Kerang South Primary School and copies of photographs via the school’s e-mail address.
Ms Veall was a teacher and member of the 25th anniversary celebrations committee in 1992.
“Visitors will see the growth in the school, the new [indoor sports and activities] shed, the portables at the back and see that the original six classrooms aren’t all classrooms now,” she said.
The school currently has 167 students.
The school was officially opened 15 months after the arrival of the first students by the Assistant Minister for Education, John Rossiter.
