Gowrie Primary School

The six units that made up Gowrie Primary School were named after six properties in the Tuggeranong Valley. School architect, Enrico Taglietti, designed the school buildings to reflect a rural theme.

Athllon comes from the names of Harry Oldfield's family - Alfred, Ted, Harry, Les, Lile, Oldfield, and Nancy. Their original home stood where 'Blinky Bill' child care centre is now. The house was destroyed in the 1952 bushfires, which also wiped out nearby Fadden Pines. The foundations of Oldfield's second home can be seen in the City Parks Depot beside the Scout Hall in Gowrie. Their farm covered Gowrie, Monash, and parts of neighbouring suburbs.

Gulla Gulla was the property of Mr Geoff Hyles. Baby Noel Hyles used to say, "Gulla, gulla, gulla," while crawling around the house and that gave their family the idea for the name. The cotoneaster hedge that was around the house can be seen in the children's playground in Watkins Street, opposite the Padua campus of McKillop College.

Yamba The property was one of the soldier settlements located in the Woden Valley in the vicinity of Eddison Park. Walter Eddison drew block 28 in the 1920 allocation of leases for returned servicemen from World War 1. He named the lease Yamba . The family moved into the newly built homestead on the 560 hectare property in 1928. Originally from England Walter Edison an accomplished horse rider joined the Australian Light Horse Brigade. After the war he and his family consisting of wife Marion and children, Tom, Diana, Jack and Keith emigrated to Australia. The children became skilled in horse riding and helped their parents with the hard work at Yamba – mainly a grazing property. The three boys served in the armed forces during the second world war. All three were killed on active service. Yamba was sold in 1955 with the property later being subdivided to become part of the Woden Valley development.

Lambrigg was built brick by brick in 1894 by the internationally famous wheat experimentalist William Farrer for his wife Nina de Salis. The house stands beside Farrer's scientific laboratory just beyond Point Hut Crossing. Farrer's cross-bred varieties grown beside the Murrumbidgee River rescued wheat from the world-wide collapse caused by rust.

Cuppacumbalong is the school administration block, library information centre, computer lab and hall. Built near the junction of the Gudginby and Murrumbidgee Rivers, near Tharwa, the original homestead was aptly named after the "Meeting of the Waters".