Uki Public School

From Barn to Schoolhouse

Education in the area began modestly in 1895 when Rowlands Creek School opened in D.C. Marshall's barn with just eight children enrolled. Because children were needed to help milk cows and work on farms, it operated as a 'half-time' school, with students attending for half the normal school day.

The school moved to a new one-room building on the present site in 1901 and was renamed Uki Public School in 1906. The small building was converted to a weather shed when a larger school was built in 1908 at the cost of £198/15/3.

In 1911, 55 residents signed a petition to relocate the school to allow for village growth and business development. By March 1912, teacher Dora Fisher was instructing children in the weather shed. The expanded school had two classrooms, a verandah, and a residence for the principal, who paid £48 rent annually in 1912.