150th Celebration Information

150th Drone Photo and Videos

In the last week of Term 2, on Thursday July 3rd (two days before our official birthday), we held a wonderful open afternoon with guests participating in activities to do with either the number 150 or Ceres. We also invited all students, staff and visitors out to the oval to partake in the forming of a human 150 for a drone shot. The results are below, and the end result is breathtaking- particularly the videos. 

Massive thanks to Miss Petzke for the use of her drone and amazing photography skills.  

Thanks to everyone who took part, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

150th Merchandise

We are excited to announce that our 150th Commemorative Merchandise is now available for order! All orders are to be made via QKR (Home | Qkr! by MasterCard) and can be collected from the office.

150th Birthday Acknowledgement in office foyer

Throughout this year we will be displaying artefacts from Ceres Primary School's history in a beautiful glass cabinet that has been very kindly loaned to us by the Ceres Historical Society. Artefacts have been loaned to us also by the Historical Society and former employee Kerrie Pickering. 

These artefacts will be on display all year with the types of artefacts rotating each term.

We are so grateful to our wonderful community members for entrusting us with these items and for their incredible support of our school.

Also, an item that will feature in our foyer all year is our 150th time capsule kindly made and donated to us by the Mount Duneed Men's Shed. It has been beautifully made and inscribed with a message for our 150th anniversary.

Feel free to pop in and have a look and read.

This term's artefacts include;

• Ink wells found in a local Ceres backyard at the house where a former principal resided, and where Ceres students watched the moon landing in the front lounge room
• Photo of Ceres PS's longest serving principal, Duncan Robertson 1949-1967 and again 1968-69.
• 150+ year old minutes of some very early meetings detailing the proposal of building our school
• A photo of our very first Principal, Mr John Hartshorn, 1875-1894 

What's planned throughout 2025?

This year there will be many opportunities for our community to commemorate our 150th.

While our actual opening date was July 5th, we will host not only our big community event as described above, but also...

•  an open morning in the last week of Term 2 where parents will be welcomed to the classrooms to complete activities to do with the number 150
• classes will complete Inquiry investigations into a historical topic in Term 2
• a whole school drone photo will be taken at some stage this year
• a fun activity will be sought for all students in either late Term 3 or in Term 4
• and others so stay tuned. An exciting year awaits!