• When Tamaki # 5 school opened in September 1955 and spent it's first week surrounded by a sea of mud and rain water

• Then in October 1955 the school changed it's name to Glenbrae School

• The polio injections

• The prefabs with coke (coal) stoves

• When there was only 1 wooden bunk in the sick room

• School trips to Mt Albert school farm, the circus, the beach, downtown Auckland, climbing to the top of Mount Wellington

• School camps at Albany and Motu Moana

• The bottle drives - often raising $100 - $200 per drive

• The school galas and sausage sizzles

• The primo milk vending machine in the senior block

• The art shows

• The fire in the boiler room

• The school breakfasts with free fruit and milk

• Radio Glenbrae