THE media teacher and librarian at Laddsworth Primary School in Hilton is smiling, and so are the pupils after receiving a very generous gift for the school library.

The library now boasts a sturdy, lockable mobile storage and display cabinet, called a book wagon, plus several boxes of new books. The donation is valued at R50 000 and came courtesy of P. Trimborn Agency.

A CLASS of Grade 7 Laddsworth Primary School pupils won R10 000 in the Midlands Liberty Midlands Malls' "re*think: Conserve Water" school art competition on the theme of water conservation.

Each term Laddsworth has held an event to celebrate its 110th anniversary this year. The fourth term celebration took the form of an exhibition of artworks created by the pupils and a cocktail party at which three donated paintings were auctioned.

TO celebrate its 110th anniversary this year, Laddsworth Primary School in Hilton has held a commemorative event of some kind each term. To mark the start of Spring and celebrate the anniversary, the school recently planted 11 indigenous trees along the boundary of the sports field, once for each decade of the school's history.