What a wonderful day we had on 17 October. We had approximately 1000 people come through the school over the course of the day.
The weather was perfect. There was lots to see and do and the day showed how wonderful the Albion Primary School community is.
Many thanks to the following:
- The 100th anniversary organising committee - Linda Pollard, Michael Mink, Samantha Ludbrook, Gracie Prencipe, Lauren Handley, Adrienne Williamson
- Mathew Holmes as 'jack of all trades'
- Albion Parents' Club for all the help, time and effort they put into making the day work. Special thanks to Amelia Farmer and Michael Mink.
- Albion school staff for the time and effort they put into the lead up to the day and on the day itself.
- Norwood Street Band
- Candeece Brown and the Sunshine College Band
- Robert Breen and the Victoria University Secondary College Band
- Robyn Douglas for her help with archives
- Trevor Batty for the use of his 100 year old car
- Mitko Deli & Cafe for their donation of hamper for the raffle
- Betty Batty and Diane Donoghue for making the scones
- Belinda and Linda Pollard for making the coasters
- Sunshine United Cricket Club
- Richard Popczyk from DK Property Partners for the advertising boards
- Families who contributed to the Community Cookbook
- Lucy Fekete and Wallis for the beautiful cookbook cover
- Past and present students, families and staff who contributed photos, memories, stories and memorabilia for the 100th book
- Matt Bird for making the wooden bookmark mementos given away on the day and the wooden cutting boards (both made from the original timber flooring) that were to be used as raffle prizes, but were destroyed in the Harcourt January fires before they could be handed to the school
- Dianne Mayo for her generous donation of the blank pavers
- Salman Munir and Farzana Haque for their generous donation of the perspex mementos
- Dan and Amelia Farmer for the drone photos
I am sure I have forgotten someone or something and for that I sincerely apologise.
100th anniversary celebration - Back to Albion Day