In 1879, John Irving stepped off the 1st through train from Melbourne to Sale to open Morwell’s 1st school located in a former butcher shop. The school moved to its present site in Commercial Road in 1880 where a wooden school was built.
The 1st brick section of the school was built in 1906 followed by a number of changes during latter years. The weatherboard section was moved to its present position in 1921.
The school’s most famous 20th century pupil is Gen Sir Horace Robertson, known as “red Robbie” who attended between 1903-5 where his father was head teacher.
Robertson led the 1st mounted cavalry charge by Australian horsemen in World War I, and had a prominent World War II career in Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific.
