If you’re a school that’s been going for 140 years you deserve a medal or two.
And that’s exactly what Campbelltown Public School received yesterday from the Mayor, Councillor Paul Hawker.
The mayor presented the school with a Community Service Award in recognition of the school’s 140 year anniversary.
The award was also recognition for all that the school community has done for Campbelltown during that time.
This was the second “medal’’ the school has received in its 140th anniversary year.
Earlier this year it was presented with a Campbelltown City Council Heritage Medallion.
This was recognition of the outstanding work of Campbelltown Public School in promoting, preserving and celebrating not only the past heritage of our community, but the role it plays in shaping our present and future.
The community service award was formal recognition of the enormous efforts of the school community in celebrating their 140th anniversary, through the collecting and digitising of oral histories, photos, newspaper articles and school memorabilia, to create a timeline of the school, and the region’s history.
The work that was done is now permanently available to the school and the community.
[social_quote duplicate=”no” align=”default”]“The archives will continue to provide a strong and positive sense of local identity – allowing us to reflect on and acknowledge where we have come from, as a small township in the early 1800s to the significant and ever growing community of Campbelltown City that we are today,’’ the mayor said.[/social_quote]
“Today’s visit to the school and presentation of a Community Service Award was to thank the students, staff and parents for their contribution to that project, and congratulate them on being part of the Campbelltown Public School community – it truly is one of our city’s greatest and most enduring assets, having been a part of our community for the past 140 years, and no doubt for many years to come.’’
