Fernridge School pupils yesterday wound back the clock and their clothes 150 years ahead of sesquicentenniel celebrations at the school this weekend.
Principal Janine Devenport said pupils at the Masterton school had also completed lessons during the lead-up to the weekend that included visits to an old world classroom at Cobblestones Museum, where former Kuranui College principal Grey Tuck had dressed in period schoolmaster costume, and "differences in schooling then and now" were highlighted.
Fernridge families and community members had contributed recipes for an anniversary cookbook compiled for the sesquicentenniel as "a more user-friendly" publication, she said, complete with a school history and photographs - to mark the sesquicentenniel.
Each of the almost 200 pupils on the school roll had also fashioned a ceramic tile for a mural that was installed on the exterior wall of a classroom building at the school.
Registrations and a gathering to launch celebrations will be held tonight at the school hall and celebrations resume tomorrow with a roll call and photographs at 10am, after which the classrooms will be thrown open to sesquicentenniel visitors.
