MORE than 200 pupils from across five decades turned up to mark the 65th anniversary of Seascale Primary School.

Ex-students from the 1950s through to 1990s gathered last Saturday to catch up with the news, and to take part in a disco at the Windscale Club, which included the appearance of DJ Ian Sharp who previously ran the village discos.

Organiser Jason Rushworth, who went to the Seascale Primary School in the 1970s, hit on the idea of a reunion site on Facebook while working in the United Arab Emirates and “missing life back in Copeland’’.

He said: “With everybody knowing somebody else from another school year apart from our own, I decided to run the reunion to include all the school years from the 1950s all the way through to the 1990s.

“We’ve had a great time going down memory lane with all on the site, and it has triggered memories we had totally forgotten about.”

At the reunion, he presented current Seascale School headteacher Avril Spencer with a framed picture of the school’s opening day programme from 1951, which he had found in London’s National Archives.

Jason said: “It was a fantastic day that brought in more than 200 ex-pupils.

“We also had a successful fundraiser for the Seascale Beach Park Project and a fantastic turnout in the evening for a dance down memory lane to the tunes we knew and loved so well!

“The feedback so far has been immensely positive. Already there have been calls for a follow-up reunion in 2021.’’

Two of the former pupils, Nigel Pallister and Ann Todd, were reunited at the event after 51 years.

Ann had travelled from Australia and Nigel from Peterborough.

For more information about the event, go to the Seascale Primary School reunion Facebook page which has nearly 600 members.