By ANNA USHER

The original school buildings were shipped all the way from England. Seventy-five years later, they’re still standing.

Beauty Point Public School is preparing to mark its 75th anniversary – and it is calling on former students, staff, past parents and long-time Mosman residents to help preserve its history.

Established in 1951 as an Infants School for children in Kindergarten to Year 2, the school was built on what a NSW Government Inspector at the time called “a dream site” – a hilltop with “an uninterrupted outlook upon Middle Harbour – one of the most beautiful seascapes of Sydney.”

The original English-built classrooms still stand today, used as the school’s Office, Music and Learning Support rooms.

Principal Trent Gardiner is asking anyone with old photographs, artefacts or memories connected to the school to come forward – whether they attended as a child, taught there, or simply watched the school take shape in the early days of the suburb.

You do not need to be a current school family to contribute.

From dairy farm to dream school.

Before Beauty Point became a residential suburb, it was farmland – home to poultry, dairy cattle and goats, with a Dairy Farmers Cooperative Milk Company depot on Central Avenue.

The land was released as an estate in 1928, with probably as few as 120 blocks. Until that release, there were no houses beyond the end of Medusa Street.

The school opened in 1951 under its first headmistress, Rosa Fishman. By 1957, a Government Inspector was reporting that children were being given “a wholesome, unstrained and valuable introduction to school life.”

In 1969, another inspector described it as “this small, quiet, little school … possessed of tone and serenity all of its own.”

The school was renamed Beauty Point Public School in 1976, when a primary third class was added to meet the growing needs of the local community. The school hall was completed in 1994, and the library followed in 2011 with Commonwealth Government funding under the Build the Education Revolution program.

Two celebrations on the calendar.

The anniversary will be marked at two on-site events: Wednesday, 5 August 2026 to coincide with Public Education Week, and Sunday, 13 September for the annual Beauty Point Carnival, featuring displays, performances and opportunities for former students, families and teachers to reconnect.

Anyone with items, stories or memories is encouraged to contact the school at [email protected] or bring items to the school office during school hours.