Remarkables Primary School

Remarkables Primary School pupils will explore the Remarkables mountain range with Peter Hillary, when the mountaineer and expedition leader joins them for the school's 4 Peaks Day and the ticketed Glittering Peaks community fundraising night on Friday, November 12.

A signed and inscribed first-edition copy of Peter Hillary's book, In The Ghost Country, will be among thousands of dollars worth of items going under the auctioneer's hammer at Remarkables Primary School next month.

The Queenstown girl who lost consciousness when she fell and hit her head on grass at Remarkables Primary School on Thursday was "fine and back in class the next day", the principal says.

Queenstown's newest primary school was swamped with prospective parents and pupils yesterday - all there to glimpse the future of education.

Queenstown's newest school will hold its first social evening in November, with mountaineer and expedition leader Peter Hillary set to make the trek south to support Remarkables Primary School.