Time in a bottle

St Patrick’s Primary School will wind back the clock when it digs up two time capsules, which have lain buried since the current school was built in 1985.
At the time, everyone at the Greymouth school put something in a capsule, with instructions that it be opened 25 years later, on October 23, 2010.
A second capsule was buried at the same spot five years later, and will be opened at the same time.
Teacher Carmel Kelly said it was a great opportunity for today’s children to learn something of history and how it can be preserved.
“We have been studying about the Marist order and the Sisters (of Mercy) who taught here. It’s good for our kids actually to learn about the past,” she said.
A big day was planned for the opening of the time capsules, over Labour Weekend, and a lot of people had contacted the school, excited about the event.
The school hoped past students would return for the opening. Photocopies would be made of the letters and stories in the capsule.