Ivanhoe Grammar students skipped and played hopscotch, marbles, card games and quoits last Thursday to celebrate the school’s 100th anniversary.
On February 9, 1915, the school’s original headmaster, Reverend Sydney Buckley, officially opened the doors for the first 14 students of the then St James Church of England Grammar School for Boys.
The school now has three campuses, with the Plenty campus at Mernda in its 25th year.
To celebrate, students walked through a guard of honour beside riders representing a light horse brigade.
They then watched a re-enactment of the school’s first students in the playground, dressed as they would have been 100 years ago.
