Walton Community School, Peterborough - Open Day 30th June 2007.

Walton Community School will sound it's last bell and close it's doors to students on Friday 13th July 2007. An open day was organised to celebrate the school's achievements over the past 69 years. Past & present staff, students, parents and the general public were invited in to have a look around the school as it is now, view archive material, witness the digging up and opening of the time capsule that was buried in 1985 plus much more.

The main entrance & driveway in to Walton Community School.

The entrance to the girls' side of the school. This entrance is no longer in use as obviously this is now a mixed school.

Front of the original part of the school with the opening year visible.

Bartram Hall viewed from the staff car park.

The Humanities block viewed from the staff car park.

The Maths & English blocks.

The Art block. A small part of the new Voyager school can just be seen to the very right of the photograph (blue & white coloured building).

Various displays of students' art inside the Art block.

The Science block.

Message wall on the Library & Student Support building. Former students, staff and visitors were invited to 'sign' the wall. This was very popular throughout the day and many people commented about feeling a bit naughty doing this!

We just had to claim our own space on the visitors wall!

The time capsule being buried on Friday 14 June 1985.

The time capsule dug up 22 years later, Saturday 30 June 2007.

The opening and displaying the contents of the capsule - items of clothing (Walton school uniform), newspapers, etc.

A copy of the 'Daily Star' newspaper that was recovered from the time capsule.

The original log book from 1939.

At about 3:30pm the highlight of the day appeared - a Spitfire. The infamous aeroplane performed a fly over of the school and did several passes.