Family marks third generation to attend Footscray North Primary
Sofia Sporton will follow in her mum and grandma’s footsteps next week, becoming the third generation to walk the halls of their school. This is how things have changed at Footscray North Primary since the 1950s.
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Sofia Sporton will follow in her mum and grandma’s footsteps when she starts school on Monday.
The five-year-old will be the third generation to walk the halls at Footscray North Primary.
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“It’s the same uniform, it even has the same song and I think they have the same flags in the hall,” mum Sonia Sporton said. “It’s kind of like going home.”
Mrs Sporton and her mother Jeanette Rose’s class pictures from 1980 and the late 1950s still hang on the walls.
Mrs Rose said she doesn’t remember much of her time there almost 60 years ago.
“I just remember having fun,” she said.
In the ’50s, there was no school uniform, students just wore whatever they wanted.
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“I think it looks nice now, they have hats for protection — we never had anything back then,” Mrs Rose said.
“But I think it’s wonderful, my sister and I went there when we were young, my daughter has been there and now I’m very proud to see my granddaughter there.”
Mrs Sporton said there would be no tears from Sofia on her first day.
“She will be running to get there and I will be crying in the car,” she said.
“I think part of it is knowing we have been there — she knows we are comfortable there so she’s comfortable there.
“But if you hear a woman sobbing, that will most likely be me.”
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