Nevaeh Tuua (Vice Captain), Mason Butt (School Captain), Lyla fellows (School Captain), Imogen Dobson (Vice Captain).
A Junee North Public School centenary being held at the school on November 4 from 10 am will be to celebrate the hundred and one year’s Junee North has been teaching the areas students. The celebration which was originally meant to be held last year, but couldn’t due to Covid restrictions, is finally going ahead.
The celebration will run until 2:00pm giving plenty of time to catch up or meet new people. To liven up the day even more there will be performances by So Dance Junee and the school singing group, Dippin Dots, hair colour, braiding, face paint, Disney and Marvel characters and much more on the day.
Justine McDevitt has been Principle since 2018, but will be reflecting on a century of history on the date.
“We’re starting at 10 am, there’s the formal ceremony with the unveiling of a plaque and drawing. We’ll have history of the school, cutting of the cake, revealing what was in the last time capsule,” said Mrs McDevitt.
“After that we have school tours then we move into some local dance presentations and markets and stalls with a free BBQ lunch for the rest of the day.”
It’s open to past students as well so if you were a previous student, the gates are open for a trip down memory lane.
“I know there is a lot of former students & families coming back, students and elderly people travelling from all over the place. There are lots of reunion groups coming back together for that weekend. People are coming from far and wide.” Justine said it took twelve months to plan the event with plenty of hard work from many different people. “Our centenary was last year but with Covid restrictions we had to put off the ceremony until this year. “Former students and current students were able to purchase a personalised paving brick with their name on it and that will be a paved area under our new flagpoles and our new time capsule will be put there as well.
” The current time capsule has been in place for the last 25 years which should have been opened last year, the new one will now go in for another 25 years.” The committee are currently planning and expecting upwards of several hundred visitors meaning there will be plenty of faces from previous generations. “We didn’t want the day to be a fundraiser, just a celebration. No cost for families, with the option of purchasing items from the market stalls if they wish”.
Jack Murray
