Trinkets and treasures are preserved in Littlehampton Academy’s time capsule

PRESERVING the past for future generations is an ambition which will soon be fulfilled at The Littlehampton Academy when the school celebrated the completion of its own time capsule.

Students past and present came together to celebrate the completion of the project, which was created to usher in the era of the school’s new building, set to open later this year.

Special guests during the day included one family who had been with the school for an impressive three generations, seeing it in four different guises over a 52-year period.

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Heather Thatcher was a student at the Maud Allan Girls’ School in 1960. Her daughter Rebekah attended the Littlehampton Comprehensive School in 1981 and two of Rebekah’s children attended the Littlehampton Community School and the academy. Heather’s granddaughter Millie was in year-seven when the school became an academy, in 2009.

The ceremony, which took place last Monday, saw a mock burial of the capsule in front of the entire school.

The device has been filled to the brim full of nostalgia and trinkets from the academy and its predecessor schools, which is hoped will remain preserved until the capsule is removed from the ground in 2062.

It has also been packed full of pictures and ideas, created by students at the school, to illustrate what they think the future will look like.

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The item will provide an fascinating insight into education at the school, in 2012, that future generations at the school can mull over.

The Littlehampton Academy chaplain, Paul Sanderson, said: “It’s been an exciting project getting all the staff and students, both past and present, to collect memories and dreams of the future.

“Local churches have added their prayers for the new building.”

He added: “The academy ethos is ‘life to the full’ and we are so excited to have in the capsule some of the rich history that has shaped the present with such an exciting future ahead of us.”

The capsule will be buried later this month.

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