In the early days of Belmont Secondary School, students had to spend gym class and detention time picking rocks out of the new school鈥檚 playing field.
Decades later, the fields are rock-free, but the school has reached the end of its life.
Leaks in the ceiling and duct tape on the floors were some of the signs that the old school needed replacing.
Next month, that will happen, when two state-of-art high schools open to serve the Sooke School District: Royal Bay Secondary and a new Belmont Secondary.
As the new era dawns, we asked readers for photos of Belmont over the years. Here are some of the pictures they submitted.
