On 19 December 2024, the School's Archivist, Darren Watson, received an unexpected email from the Grounds Supervisor. During improvement works, made possible by the Friends of Middle School, the Facilities Team discovered a time capsule. The contents revealed that, on 12 August 1987, the Barwon House boys filled a plastic container with notes and reflections from their time at School and placed it in a brick wall near their boarding house tennis courts. One tightly packed plastic wrapper turned out to be a noodle package and note by Magnus McCamish Yoshikawa (Timbertop '88), who declared that "This is what we had for Lunch/Because the food was allfull [sic]." 

On learning that the time capsule had been discovered, Magnus had a good chuckle - particularly about his spelling - and confirmed that the noodles are still available for purchase today! While many of the other notes were destroyed due to weather or animal activity, it was a delight to find this unofficial time capsule, albeit 63 years earlier than one note advises it should've been. Jonathan Hutchings (Cu'91) recalls that there may also be a Barrabool House time capsule from the same year, so we are hopeful that this, and a possible Connewarre House time capsule, will be located also!