CELEBRATIONS were tinged with sadness at Maryfields Primary School, Kingston on October 30 as about 200 people gathered to remember 24 years of Catholic education before the school closes its doors for the last time.
It was like a reunion as past students, families, staff and friends gathered to relive and remember.
Celebrations took the form of a ritual with symbols used to acknowledge the foundation and key elements of school life over 24 years.
Two former parish priests, Frs Bernard Gallagher and Pat Cassidy, and several past clergy who had also served in the parish, attended.
Past principals, a past parent, student, teacher and the former parish priests, principal Peter McKee, Brisbane Catholic Education executive director David Hutton and Kingston Marsden parish priest Fr Jim O’Brien addressed the gathering.
Mr McKee said all those directly associated with Maryfields reinforced the special significance the school had in the lives of so many.
The decision to close the school was made in May after a year-long effort to keep it open failed to attract new enrolments.
