If your school is planning an anniversary celebration in the near future:
- check your school's opening date on the schools'
opening and closing dates database
- consider holding a first meeting of interested members of your school community at least 2 years prior to your anniversary date.
Here is a list of
schools celebrating a significant anniversary in 2023–2026 (XLSX, 144KB).
Feedback from schools that have celebrated anniversaries suggests the importance of long-term planning to:
- encourage school and community participation in
celebration activities
- research and
write the school history
- publish a book/CD
- organise advertising of your anniversary
- provide time to contact former staff and students
- organise guest speakers
- locate sponsors
- consider organising an anniversary fete
- organise an anniversary display
- make catering arrangements.
Useful education history links
Queensland
Australia
Other Australian states