For Angie Holdaway, Renwick School runs in the family.
The former pupil turned teacher aide also has her young sons attend the school which is celebrating its 150th jubilee this weekend.
Four of the teaching staff at the school were also there when Mrs Holdaway started on October 24, 1984.
Aside from living in Australia for a year, Mrs Holdaway, who became the unexpected chairwoman of the jubilee committee, has always lived in Renwick. "I spent a year in Australia in 1998-1999, but came back to good old Renwick. Renwick's home."
Her sons Jed, 8, and Qyn, 5, also attend the school.
She began as a teacher aide at Renwick School about three years ago and was apprehensive about calling some of her new colleagues by their first names.
"When I got the job I was so worried about calling her [former teacher Julie Culbert] Julie."
The school was "bigger, brighter and better" since she was a pupil and was very family oriented, she said.
A daughter of a former classmate was in the same class as one of her boys and in some cases there had been four generations of a single family go through the school, she said.
Mrs Holdaway became the chairwoman of the committee when she was asked to attend a jubilee meeting and was introduced as the chairwoman.
She will earn some well deserved down-time next week after 2 1/2years and many late nights of planning.
Some of the events planned include a Waihopai Valley bus tour, a museum and library open day, a celebration dinner and the opening of the jubilee garden at the school.
The school's annual fundraiser, the Festival of Wheels, will be held at the Giesen Sports and Events centre on Uxbridge St. It will close the weekend of celebrations and will include classic cars, hotrods, farm machinery and food and craft stalls.
Entry to the event is free and will run from 11am to 3pm.
Centre manager Vicki Harrison Jones said anyone wanting to show their cars was welcome to, but they needed to be at the centre by 10.30am.
- The Marlborough Express
SIMON WONG
Connections: Former Renwick School pupil and teacher aide Angie Holdaway, centre, with her sons Jed, 8, left, and Qyn, 5, right, who are pupils at the school. They are joined by staff members who taught while Mrs Holdaway was at school, from left, Kaye Eccersall, Julie Culbert, Sue Cambridge and Kathryn Martin. The school is celebrating it 150th jubilee this weekend.
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