Writing school history |
Teachers and principals |
Past students |
Celebration activities |
Special guests and requests |
Historical displays
The following are suggested celebration activities.
School - community events
- morning teas for former students/teachers from 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s onwards
- talks by former students to class groups about:
- teachers, inspectors
- subjects and teaching methods
- exams
- project clubs
- discipline
- getting to school
- playground games and equipment
- special days including Arbor Day, sports' day, breaking-up day
- animals in the playground e.g. horses, goats, snakes, magpies
- consider organising an anniversary fete
- consider developing a school archive
- organise a tree planting ceremony to commemorate the anniversary
Student activities
- develop questions for interviews with past students/teachers
- write up findings
- appoint a writer-in –residence to assist student anniversary activities
- collect/publish information for a school anniversary newspaper/newsletter
- students write district histories as part of local area studies
- create a nineteenth/early twentieth century classroom leading to re-enactments of earlier school days including lessons in period costume
- schedule class visits to the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre to become part of an historic classroom
- learn dances/drills from old syllabuses
- class group/year level historical presentations
- provide historical displays to local shops/shopping centres to encourage interest in the school anniversary
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Last updated: November 2007
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