Open event being held today (15 July)
Ballasalla Primary School is celebrating 70 years of the current school building today. (15 July)
An open event is being held in the school hall from 3:30pm until 7pm with photographs and memorabilia on display spanning the past seven decades.
Manx Radio has been speaking to Headteach Jamie Cox, teacher Hannah Drewett and Site Manager Donna, and Year 2 student, Millie:
Pupils today are marking the occasion with a special school dinner and wearing fancy dress.
- Site Manager Donna and her class in their Manx dancing dresses in 1982
- Newspaper clipping from the opening of the school
- Newspaper clipping from the opening of the school
- One of the first classes to use the new school building in 1955
- Ballasalla Primary School class from 1966
- Ballasalla Primary School class from 1966
- Teacher Hannah Drewett pictured as a student with her class
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