Before we share all our photos we wanted to truly get your attention to this beautiful special school and tell you all about the school and how it come about. We will break it down in part to give you some idea, but truth be told we could talk all day about this school as it touched the hearts of us all.

The school started back in 1964 when local resident George Stanley Kidd decided Gunnedah needed a school for children with intellectual disabilities. Gunnedah Lions Club Inc held a meeting with representatives from the Department of Education, and you guessed it, the first class started at the girl guides hall in March 1965, with Edith Beasley in charge.

It was not long and the parents and friends were soon out in the community and beyond fundraising and with the enormous support from the AMAZING and always giving Lions Club, the GS Kidd Memorial School open in 1966, not in the current location.

The NSW Department of Education purchased the school in 1970 and Edith Beasley retired from teaching in 1983. Tom O'Reilly was the first principal and today the principal is Bec Maybury.

In 1985 Gunnedah Lions Club once again supported the school and with the school ladies auxiliary they donated and installed an inground pool so the students could learn basic water skills, and two years later the adjoining land was used as a playground.

Over the years one building proved inadequate, so additional buildings were added, and thanks to the AMAZING charity group Variety - the Childrens Charity installed playground equipment and a wheelchair swing.

As time went on they had outgrown the school with the success of teaching and students numbers increasing so a one-hectare greenfield site in Lincoln Street Gunnedah had been purchased for a new school to be built and here it stands today.

GS Kidd Memorial School caters for students to severe range of intellectual disability, they provide a place where the dignity and self worth of each student is of utmost importance and they ensure parents and caregivers feel comfortable in their role as contributors to their children's education.

The school is a place where whole life learning takes place within a variety of community environments. They have designed individual programs including reading, writing, mathematics and the living skills and behaviours which allow students to function as independently as possible in their community.

From the moment you step onto the grounds of this beautiful school you can feel the love and care and we hope through our photos and videos to come you also get to feel this.

Keep following as we take you into the hall and school grounds of GS Kidd Memorial School where hearts are big and smiles are made.

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