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Cawston Primary School to celebrate its heritage at fall homecoming

Harvest Homecoming will take place Oct. 11 at 1:40 p.m. with poems, songs and dances
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The new Harvest Homecoming will take place at Cawston Primary School on Oct. 11 at 1:40 p.m. (Contributed)

Young and old generations will come together at a new fall homecoming celebration at Cawston Primary School.

Called Harvest Homecoming, the event is about building connections with the community and sharing its past, said school librarian Carmen Lucich, who came up with the idea.

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Each year, the school holds a harvest assembly close to Thanksgiving, where the students perform poems, songs and dances appropriate to this time of the year. But, this year, Lucich said she and some colleagues are planning to highlight the school’s history because it has such a storied past.

“This new event is inspired by the idea of homecoming weekends that take place at many colleges,” she explained.

“At those institutions, alumni and former staff are invited back near the beginning of the school year to events that celebrate the history of the school. As a primary school, we are unable to plan dances, football games or parades. However, the idea is to use the harvest assembly to highlight and honor our past.”

Primary school teacher Michael Lucich said teachers often run in to locals who ask about the school because they attended when they were young.

“They are very interested in knowing what’s happening, so we wanted to have a chance for those people to come back and see what the school was like when they went here or when their kids went here. This assembly gives them a chance to come back and do that,” he said.

Students who attended the primary school in the 1980s and 1990s will probably remember performing “Shake, Shake, The Apple Tree” with Mrs. Gardner, a well-known Kindergarten teacher at the time, he added.

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Following her retirement in the late 1990s, that song was no longer performed, as new teachers wanted to try new ideas. However, this year, for the first time in over 20 years, “Shake, Shake, The Apple Tree” will be performed again.

Photographs and artifacts, such as old textbooks, that were used at the school going back to the 1950s, will be on display. There will also be a slideshow of the school’s history during the assembly.

Harvest Homecoming will start at 1:40 p.m. on Oct. 11. The children will be performing several poems, songs and dances that have historical importance to the school.

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