Lindfield East Public School was opened largely due to the efforts of Mrs Grace Sullivan of Tryon Road. She was tireless in her endeavours to have a school built and began submitting applications for a school to the Department of Education from 1921. In 1926 a submission containing 51 names was lodged and soon after planning began to build LEPS. Mrs Sullivan's youngest child, Jean, had reached secondary school age by the time the school was opened, so none of her three children attended the school after all.
The foundation stone was laid for a two-classroom school in 1928, and the school opened on 27th May, 1929. The names of 17 children between the ages of 5 and 14 years appear on the Admission Register for that day and by the end of the year 49 children had been enrolled.
Read the recollections of a student from these early days on our LEPS History page.
The LEPS Archives makes original documents, pictures and talks, recollections and oral history interviews available as they are transcribed, scanned or otherwise digitised, for use by LEPS teachers and students.
Please enjoy this photo movie of LEPS history which was produced for the 75th Anniversary.