Fairfield School celebrates its 150th anniversary

Fairfield School teachers and pupils wave their hats in the air at a gathering last week to celebrate the school’s 150th anniversary.

Principal Greg Lees said the whole school dressed in Victorian garb for the day and learned about some of the history of the school.

The school had its start in February 1872 when it was called Walton School and was housed in the Walton Mission House in Green Island.

Later it moved to a two-roomed building on Main South Rd where the Fairfield store now resides.

On New Year’s Day 1951, a fire destroyed the old school. With an expanding roll of more than 130 pupils, a new 2ha site was found at the end of Sickels St, and in March 1953 the new school was opened as Fairfield School.