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Prospect Primary School Centennial

Ms HOOD (Adelaide) (15:28): Last year, Prospect Primary School turned 100. Unfortunately, a particular global event postponed that celebration. Instead, last month, on 22 October, our local community celebrated Prospect Primary Centennial +1 Open Day. It was certainly worth the wait. The school and the wider community pulled together to deliver a truly wonderful event. There was a bake stall, a plant stall, nature craft, a yiros stall, popcorn, badge making, games, music, dancing and a barbecue by the local Blair Athol Lions Club.

A history display celebrated Prospect Primary School's stories of staff and students from the last 100 years, while teachers opened up their classrooms to proudly display the work of our little ones. After a challenging couple of years for the school community, in particular for staff and students, it was so incredibly heartwarming to see our school community come together again.

One very special moment on the day was the opening of the Prospect Primary School's time capsule. The time capsule was sealed on 26 October 1986 by then Prospect Primary School students Debbie Zimmerman and George Tyhalas. Fast-forward 36 years, and Debbie and George were there once again—this time as adults—to open the time capsule that they had sealed almost four decades earlier. Included in the time capsule were students' artwork and even a cassette tape-recording of students' voices. We loved hearing the little ones ask us, when they saw the cassette tape, 'What's that?'

An event like this does not happen without the tireless work of so many. I want to acknowledge first the local businesses who supported the event, including Schinellas, Healthy Inspirations, Fiaje jams and preserves, Drakes Collinswood, Officeworks Prospect, Fotobase, Africola, Africola Canteen, OTR Prospect, Costco, Kennards Hire Valley View, PowerHouse gym, Skinnymixers, Bunnings Prospect, Prospect-Blair Athol Lions Club, Prospect Historical Society and Scrunzi.

In particular, there is an incredible group of women I want to acknowledge today who are also in the gallery: firstly, Prospect Primary School principal, Karen Duval, and assistant principal, Anita Hall, who with their staff work so incredibly hard to foster a welcoming, inclusive and creative school community. You will always find them rolling up their sleeves to decorate the school hall for the disco or turning sausages on the election-day barbecues, on top of ensuring the smooth and safe running of our beautiful school.

To our Centennial Committee champions—Mez Nelson, Anna Cope and Alicia Neville—these three mums worked day and night for months and months to make this event happen. They did it without the expectation of acknowledgement or reward but simply because they love their kids and they love their community. Thank you, Karen, Anita, Mez, Anna and Alicia for making this incredible day happen.

To our governing council and the many parents, grandparents, caregivers, teachers, support staff and loved ones of staff who volunteered hours of their time letterboxing pamphlets, packing up, setting down, working on the stalls and making the day run so smoothly—thank you. I actually recorded how long it would take me to read out all the names of everyone who contributed to making this special day happen and it literally would have taken up more than the entirety of my five minutes today.

So, thank you so much to everyone for being part of this magical day: a day of celebration, a day of community and a day that reinforced to all of us what an incredible village we are educating and raising our children in. I cannot wait for Prospect Primary's 200th birthday.

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