CHAPTER FIVE
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL PLANTING 28th January 1987. The first day of Trinity Lutheran College Ashmore was celebrated with a service in the hall of Trinity Lutheran Primary School conducted by Pastor Roly Nuske, and the Headmaster and teachers were installed by Pastor Tom Reuther, the National Director for Lutheran Schools. There were 63 students in two classes, 42 girls and 21 boys. The new school was a guest on the campus of Trinity Lutheran Primary School until its new buildings were ready for occupation. Office space was provided for Headmaster Peter Nitschke, and one end of the hall was set up as two classrooms, equipped with pin-board screens and mobile whiteboards. The primary school easels provided the only Art facility. Home Economics classes and Science classes with a practical element were conducted in the canteen. Sports facilities and play spaces were shared with the
primary students. The availability of the swimming pool was a luxury not to be achieved for some years on the college site. Timetables were adjusted to ease the pressure on play spaces and toilet facilities. There was a constant need for creative solutions to difficulties and for tolerance and understanding by all parties. It was difficult to create among the college students a sense of their separate and special identity. Yet for the 26 students who had come from Trinity Primary it was familiar territory, and both students and teachers adapted well to the trying circumstances. In addition to the appointed teachers, Pastors Sam Simpfendorfer and Roly Nuske provided chaplaincy services and the teaching of Christian Knowledge, assisted by Vicar Michael Steicke. Mrs Margaret Nitschke worked as the part-time teachers’ aide.
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