High School Teacher's Fine Football
J. Menton, Gosford High School teacher, who is regarded as one of the best Rugby Union half-backs in the…
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Need For School Residence At Spencer
The urgent need for a school' residence at Spencer was emphasised at the Spencer Progress Association's meeting on Saturday…
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Miss Mildred Douglas, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Douglas, of Gosford, has just returned from 12 months in England as an exchange teacher. She tells in this article of her experiences in…
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Last Tuesday the tramp of many feet along the school corridors indicated that the Autumn vacation was but a memory and that once more the scholastic message of "Full steam ahead" had been heard by all. There were some long faces, but not many. Both staff and pupils seemed pleased to. greet friends…
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An interesting and attractive ceremony was witnessed on Empire Day on Wednesday. The whole school, staff and pupils assembled at the Valencia Theatre for our annual Empire Day celebrations. The entire management of the…
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A new site for rebuilding the Ourimbah School of Arts Hall was selected by a public meeting held at Ourimbah last night. The site adjoins the southern side of the Ourimbah Post Office. The decision to consider a new…
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District schools held concerts and had a half holiday on Wednesday to celebrate Empire Day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gosford Public School Head To Retire At End Of Year Teaching Associations In District Date Back Forty Years
Headmaster of Gosford Public School, Mr G. A. Walpole, will retire at the end of the year. Apart from two breaks, he has taught in the Gosford district since 1910…
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Yesterday our half-yearly examinations commenced and our usual jubilant spirits were replaced by worried brows and frenzied thinking. That awful pre-examination feeling of "I don't know a thing" was everywhere pictured on faces. All school activities this week…
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A double-framed wooden classroom is to be erected at Gosford High School to help relieve the accommodation problem. The High School has six…
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The jubilee celebrations of the Boolaroo Public School will be held from October 8 to 14. The secretary, Mr J. Ninnis…
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Rain washed out almost all sport on Wednesday. The over-weight third-graders (mudlarks) played at Wyong. Tennis courts and fields were a pathetic sight. We were disappointed of course, but know that members of the staff shared our grief for, judging by their Wednesday afternoons' vigour, we feel…
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Twenty children from the Presbyterian Sunday School at Ultimo were entertained for the King's Birthday holiday week-end…
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Somersby Public School has been chosen by the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Education Department for a half-hour nation-wide documentary broadcast over station 2BL…
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Unrelenting rain has caused quite a bleak outlook in many respects. All sporting fixtures for this week were thoroughly drowned and we feel positively isolated in our island school. Even our playground activities have been abandoned and our lunch-time is bounded by dim windows and glistening concrete…
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For the second Wednesday afternoon in succession we had lessons instead of sport. Despite the almost sunny morning our local fields and courts were squelchy and muddy and very sadly our Sportsmistress and Sportsmaster were compelled to report complete cancellation of all sport with the exception of two…
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The Director-General of Education, Mr J. G. McKenzie, unexpectedly visited Somersby Public School on Tuesday during the recording of a documentary broadcast…
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A 16-year-old schoolboy was taken by Brisbane Water District Ambulance to the Gosford District Hospital this morning after he…
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We now have a school song. We take pride in the fact that it is entirely original. Mr L. Collits composed the music, a stirring rhythmic air, and Mr C. Sundstrom wrote the words. Yesterday at general assembly we had a gala rehearsal. The choir was…
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It was something of a welcome change to see the sun again last week and to know that normal school routine could be followed. However, on Wednesday about 400 of us, mostly girls, attended a matinee ballet performance at the Valencia theatre. It was a new experience for most…
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