Ourimbah Public School 150 yr Celebrations 2013 in Ourimbah, New South Wales | Primary School

Ourimbah Public School 150 yr Celebrations 2013

Locality: Ourimbah, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4362 1033

Address: 121 Pacific Highway, 2258 Ourimbah, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.ourimbah-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

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16.01.2022 A massive THANK YOU to all involved you made this event an amazing day to remember today!!! We SOLD 9 paintings today so thank you to all those people who have ...taken a wonderful new artwork home to brighten their walls and thank you to ALL those artists who created something inspiring for us all to look at and wonder how you did that. Thanks to ALL the teachers and students who created a colourful exhibition in the canteen area. Thanks to ALL the RAP volunteers who created workshops and walks to get to know our rainforest even more. Such a magical place, leeches and all today!!! Thanks to all the hard working volunteers who kept us fed, what a BBQ! We had art, we had craft, we had music and we had great food despite the rain trying to dampen our spirits. A great turnout so thank you to ALL those who ventured over to Ourimbah Public School today. I'm sure you all had an unforgettable fun time. (If your photo is here and you'd like me to remove it let me know.) See more

10.01.2022 Hello everyone, it's been a long time between posts of school history but I thought I'd just like to let you know there's a new mural at the school that has been painted by yours truly, Cat Soper, based on the #Take3ForTheSea initiative where the students are learning about how the rubbish that might find its way down the drains can end up in our creeks and oceans seriously affecting our wildlife and sea life. Single use plastic is bad for our environment so if you're at the ...beach take an extra 3 pieces (or more) of rubbish with you so it doesn't end up in our oceans. This mural has certainly brightened up the playground and office building walls. I want to personally thank Robbie Pearson who gerneyed all the moss and grime off the walls before painting them for me ready for the colourful mural. Robbie also primed and sealed the walls for the rainforest mural in the canteen area all those years ago too. Legend! Thank you to the 2016 leadership team and Ourimbah Public School for asking me to come back and draw all over some more walls. Lots of fun...again. See more

02.01.2022 Some sad news to report that Alf Taylor has passed away. For those of you that remember he played the headmaster at our Old Time Fair classroom re enactments at the150 yrs celebrations back in 2013. Thank you Alf. RIP. This is an excerpt from the Express Advocate...... VALE - ALF TAYLOR O.A.M.:... When you think of theatre on the Central Coast, you think of Alf Taylor. Few people have done as much to foster the performing arts and nurture young talent in the region than Alf Taylor who was awarded an OAM in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2015. After doing his first show with Gosford Musical Society in 1976, Mr Taylor featured in a huge range of principal and featured roles in dozens of productions over the years and was made a life member in 1987. He was also heavily involved in drama through the Gosford Players and the Fringe Theatre and was active with Uniting Productions which fosters local playwrights, performing their works at the Uniting Church in Gosford. Alf was also a welcome point of reference when Woy Woy Little Theatre introduced the first Flash Festival three years ago. But perhaps his most notable achievement was setting up the Youth in Performing Arts program, run annually at Laycock St Community Theatre to highlight the talents of performers aged up to 21. West Gosford Rotary came up with the idea and Don Craig, who was theatre manager at the time, asked me to organise the program," Alf told the Central Coast Express Advocate in June 2015. No one had done anything like it before so there was no model to copy but I set up a committee and we went about spreading the word to schools. I remember doing auditions in garages and lounge rooms. The performers had to meet a certain standard but I was insistent from the beginning that there were to be no prizes involved. Although I handed over the reins in 1999, I am proud of how the program has developed and been modernised. Alf was also an active volunteer for numerous organisations incuding Laycock St Theatre, Lifeline and the Uniting Church. Mr Taylor is survived by his wife Noella, their three children, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Words: Express Advocate.