Buried 25 years ago, the students were amazed to see what was in it.
As a 7-year-old Amanda Broughton dreamed of being a rockstar with a rockstar boyfriend and touring the world singing at concerts.
That was 25 years ago.
Her dreams, along with the dreams of other students, were written in letters and buried in a time capsule on the grounds of PuruaSchool as part of the school's centenary celebrations.
The capsule was dug up on Thursday, ahead of the school's 125th anniversary and reunion on April 7.
Miss Broughton's letter in the time capsule read: "I am a rock star. I will get a rock star boyfriend. I travel in the sky. I travel on top ov the sea. I travel all arand the world to ing song all arand the world. I will tavel arond the world." (sic)
The rock star life hasn't panned out for Miss Broughton, who works as a retail manager in Whangarei and farms next door to the school with her partner. Neither of them play any musical instruments and while her partner is not a rock star she reckons he's a "keeper".
Her dream was inspired by a cartoon on TV at the time about a singer, called Jem and the Holograms.
Current principal Autumn Ede said other student dreams included wanting to be a teacher, a guitarist, a policeman, and living in Fiji earning $90 a week.
The capsule was lifted just ahead of the anniversary - to the amazement of today's students - to inspire them about what they want to put into a new capsule.
On April 7, a new capsule will be buried with items from current students but will include a lot of the items from the capsule buried a quarter of a century ago.
"In 25 years, we'll pull up another time capsule," Ms Ede said.
Amanda Broughton, with son Hunter Price, wrote in her letter in the time capsule that she wanted to be a rock star. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Former students and staff were on hand on Thursday to dig up and open the capsule, which included letters, toys, a school journal, a chip packet, the cleaner's pay slip, shoes and more.
Peg Shepherd was principal at the school, albeit on maternity leave, when the capsule was buried, and read the dug up letters to the current students on Thursday.
"It was very cool to open up the capsule and see the names."
Mrs Shepherd, alongside former students Steve Shepherd, Graham Wright, Bruce Finlayson and Colleen Ferguson regaled tales of their time at the school to the students as part of the ceremony.
Mrs Ferguson was also a teacher at the school and said looking at the items showed many things, such as the swimming pool, ordering scholastic books and bringing mini chip packets to school, hadn't changed in 25 years.
