St Monica’s College Epping celebrated the opening of its new St Stephen/Gaudete Campus in Reservoir by burying a time capsule in a special location on the grounds of the new campus on August 19.
The site for the new campus was previously St Stephen’s Primary School and the original birthplace of St Monica’s College with St Stephen’s serving the Reservoir community from 1958. It’s now being used as a specialist campus for year 8 students with an emphasis on numeracy and literacy.
The planting of the time capsule marked the final celebration for the opening of the new campus. Items placed in the time capsule included notes from students and staff, special anniversary memorabilia, copies of college accounts and records.
St Monica’s College principal Brian Hanley said the capsule will be an important historic record of life at the college in 2024, the year the college celebrated it’s 60th anniversary.
“It will be a fantastic experience for our staff and students in 2064 to recover this capsule as part of the college’s centenary year and enjoy the many surprises they will find inside which reflect on life at the college in 2024,” he said.
