YESTERDAY was an historic day for the Jimboomba region with one of its oldest institutions, the Jimboomba State School, marking its 125th anniversary.
The date passed with little fanfare yesterday, coinciding with the start of NAPLAN testing for 2015, but the occasion will be celebrated later this month.
On May 30 the school will invite the community to attend a special commemoration in the school hall.
Principal Jay Mills said the school’s students were excited to be celebrating its 125th anniversary.
“The school is integral to the history of the area,” she said.
“Back then it was almost the only building in Jimboomba.
“Countless students and teachers have gone through the school.”
The Jimboomba Provisional School was officially opened in May 1890 but was up and running from 1888.
It’s first class was made up of just 27 students, six of which were from the same family.
Ms Mills said it was fascinating to consider just how different things would have been when the school opened.
“There was just one teacher who lived on site,” she said.
“There would have been students of all different ages in the one classroom.”
Ms Mills said as part of the celebrations, the school would put together a display showing the different artefacts used by school students through the years.
“We will be looking at the juxtaposition of the old way of education with the new way,” she said.
“In our hall we will have displays of old memorabilia, with people loaning slates and old desks and ink wells, leading up to the front of the hall where we’ll have iPads and digital projectors running.”
The school is also compiling a recipe book to mark the occasion.
The 125th anniversary celebration will run from 10am until 2pm.
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Jimboomba State School principal Jay Mills has put a call out to the community in a bid to discover the location of a time capsule buried on the school grounds.
The school is putting together a new time capsule to bury as part of its 125th celebrations this year but would love to discover the old one buried 50 years ago.
“There is a time capsule somewhere in the school grounds but no one knows where it is, it was to be opened for the 125th (anniversary),” Ms Mills said.
“It could be under the asphalt, we just don’t know.
“It’s one of those lost things.”
The school is collecting items to include in this year's time capsule.
For more information phone the school on 5548 8333.
