In light of their centenary year, St Dunstan’s Preparatory School Grade Seven learners wrote letters and placed them with other items in a “time capsule” on November 30, to be finally opened in 100 years’ time.
In the interim, the capsule will be opened in 25 years and then at 50 years, where the 2043 and 2068 Grade Seven learners will read the 2018 letters, and add their own letters to the capsule for the 2118 Grade Seven learners to read.
“As this is the year of their centenary celebrations, and St Dunstan’s is a World War One memorial school, the Grade Sevens studied this war for their history module of social sciences,” said social sciences teacher and organiser, Desireé Nienaber.
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“I set the children the task of writing a letter to the Grade Sevens of 2118, describing something about their lives in order to give the children of the future an idea of what the world, our country, and especially their school, was like in 2018.”
The youngsters chose to write or print a hard copy as they are uncertain whether cyberspace will still exist in 100 years’ time.
Desiree, the St Dunstan’s head girl of 1951, also contributed to their letters to the time capsule.
The social science teacher said she spent a lot of time reading the Grade Seven’s letters and noticed a common thread that family, friends and siblings are close and important to them.
With their letters, the children placed a few items in the time capsule – items that the children of 2118 may find interesting, perhaps even amusing.
These items were: photographs, a Samsung cellphone, an Ipod and Ipad, a calculator, pen, rubic’s cube, Duracell battery, aerosol deodorant can, school badges, a trophy, glue, face paint, plastic straw, school blazer, some clothing, adverts for market day, novel, school centenary magazine, Benoni City Times newspaper with adverts, Citizen newspaper, sweet wrappers and the Gideon Bible which was placed by the chaplain, Father Joe Thompson, as a token of the school’s Christian heritage.
Grade Seven learners Shivani Padayachee and Connor Honiball read their letter before placing it into the capsule..
The capsule was buried in the garden of the Preparatory School in Rynfield.
The Grade Sevens of 2018 will be invited to both ceremonies in 2043 and 2068.
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