Welcome back to Kaitaia Intermediate

Lloyd Summerfield's Form 1 class at what was to become Kaitaia Intermediate School included a future rich lister and Kaitaia College principal. Back row: Clive Crombie, Bill Bradford, Roger Wyatt, Neville Parker, Michael Rider, Conrad Subritzky, Ian Coulter, Peter Evans, Neville Puckey, Bruce Marshall. Third row: Michael Reynolds, Ian Thomas, Peter Cooper, David Ramsey, Peter Madgwick, William Tailby, Puhi Hadfield, Warren Matthews, Colin Kitchen, Dennis Hoskin, Mark Rogers. Second row: Loma Jakes, Dianne Smith, Karen Holemby, Margaret Maugham, Sue Malthus, Jennifer Bulman, Ngaire Burt, Elizabeth Somerville, Alison Miller, Vicky Berghan, Alma Werner, Irene Wood. Front: Donna Subritzky, Ellen Moates, Donna May, Sue Ernest, Gay Harrison, Maureen Paice, ?, Barbara Durbin, Heather Clarke, Pat Matthews. Absent: Robert Yates.

Planning is well under way for next year's celebration of Kaitaia Intermediate School's half-century, although some former pupils probably believe they were there well before that.

Originally the then four-classroom school, complete with woodwork for boys and cooking for girls, was a satellite (split body) of Kaitaia Primary School. In 1968 it became a separate entity, with its own headmaster, staff and committee.

By then it had grown to 11 classrooms, plus administration and the usual support buildings. It's those 50 years of independence that will be celebrate with October's reunion.

The school is using its Facebook page to spread the word, and to invite contributions, not least in the form of volunteers to help organise the reunion (contact Sheree Blakeborough on (09) 408-1490 or kisadmin@xtra.co.nz).

A collection of class photos is building up on the Facebook page, but there are some major gaps. The call has gone out for named class photos from 1964-1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975 (except rooms 6, 9 and 11), 1977-79 and all of the 1980s.

If some names have been lost in the mists of time there is every chance that the class registers will fill the gaps.

It is also hoped that past pupils and staff will be able to add some of the names missing from photos that are already on the Facebook page.

Any stories from days gone by will also be appreciated.