If there’s one thing that the students, staff and parents of Duntroon Central Public School know in this final year before the school is closed is that they will be going out in style.
A “Grand Finale Celebration” for the school is set to take place on Saturday, May 26, and the Duntroon community has been hard at work making sure the day is a memorable one.
Festivities will get underway at 1 pm, when guests will be greeted by a performance by the Stayner Collegiate Institute Concert Band. Children’s programming will take place throughout the day.
The school will be open for tours all afternoon, and several classrooms will be decked out with memorabilia from the various decades the school has been in existence.
At 2 pm those in attendance will be piped into the school’s gymnasium by the Beinn Gorm Highlanders and an official program will begin. After speeches by the various dignitaries present, the focus will move back outside for what’s sure to be the highlight of the day.
Students at the school have been hard at work writing messages and inserting them into balloons, which will be set free with the help of one graduate for each decade and one current student from each grade. The current students will all be descendants of other graduates of the school.
At 3 pm, entertainment will begin, with several talented current and former students taking the stage.
A light barbecue dinner will be served at 4 pm, and an hour after that several teams representing different decades will battle for supremacy on the baseball diamond.
Anyone and everyone who’s had anything to do with Duntroon Central Public School over the years is invited to what’s sure to be a bittersweet community occasion.