On Tuesday 7th June, Year 3s were visited by Mr Gale (Smiler Gale) from the Margaret River Rotary Club.  He talked about what life was like many years ago in Margaret River, including his story about how his parents came from London and what his life was like growing up.

Mr Gale played a slideshow that had a few pictures of Margaret River’s history.  Some interesting facts were that the Margaret River is about 60 kilometres long, and that in 1839 a man named the river Margaret because he couldn’t marry his girlfriend who was also named Margaret.  The slideshow also included a photo of the farm that Zac Webb’s family lived on.

Then it had a picture of children going to school on horses and Mr Gale explained the other two ways to get to school which were walking and pushbikes.  There was only one teacher and fifteen children in the whole school. 

When Mr Gale was a child his favourite things to do were playing marbles, climbing trees, swimming, playing hide and seek, red rover, cricket, footy and catch-me-if-you-can.  He did his last two years of school by correspondence.

All of the year 3s enjoyed Mr Gale’s visit and thought it was very educational.

By Mitchell