Queanbeyan Public School is holding a two-day event from Friday, November 14 to mark their 150th milestone.

The celebrations will include a school production performance, guided school tours, photographic exhibitions, scrapbooking workshop, choir performances, speeches and of course, a birthday cake.

School volunteer John Cope is looking forward to the celebrations and hopes many former students will return for it.

Mr Cope wrote a comprehensive history book on Queanbeyan Public School titled If Only These Stones Could Speak.

Selected chapters from the book have been appropriated for the school production titled 'QPS: This is Your Life!' which will be performed by students as part of the celebrations.

"The production covers the whole history of the school and it drew on parts of the book. It is presented in the style of television show 'This is Your Life'. I'm looking forward to seeing the school production," he said.

"There aren't too many schools around this region who can boast 150 years. Queanbeyan Public School was quite lucky to survive in some ways because there was a period of about 13 years when it was being kicked around before it had its own school premises."

Mr Cope will also share stories from his book 'Our Diggers' which is about the 98 Queanbeyan Public School boys who went on to fight in World War I.

Another, activity on the day will be the scrapbooking workshop where 150 individual blank pages will be available to visitors to record their memories. They may like to bring a photograph or write down a particular story relating to their school experience.

"It will be a nice record for us to have in years to come," Mr Cope said.

The Queanbeyan Public School 150th Birthday celebrations will be held on Friday, November 14 from 9.30am - 6pm and Saturday, November 15 from 12.30pm to 7pm.