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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Schools

Schools, 1913

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Schools of Method

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 2

We understood from some of the teachers present at the meeting on Saturday last that Mr. Inspector Cotterill is an advocate of "Schools of Method," and "Exhibitions of…

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School Children's Strike. Pittsburg, April 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 2

Thousands of school children "struck" because cause of charges preferred against an unpopular teacher, whom a jury has just acquitted. The police reserves were called out…

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Burrangong School Picnic

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 30 April 1913 · page 2

The children Attending Burrangong Public School, together with their parents and friends, had their day out on Friday last, when their annual picnic was held in the…

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Combined Schools Exhibit

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 3 May 1913 · page 2

Recently "The Wattle," the local school paper, had something, to say concerning the matter of a combined non-competitive district schools…

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Telegrams. Public Schools. Special Attention to Religious Instruction. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 4

A deputation from the Anglican Synod Committee waited on the Minister for Public Instruction and urged that more attention be paid to religious instruction' in public schools…

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Eugenics in Schools

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 1

Herbert Spencer's dictum of more than fifty years ago, that we teach children a great many unnecessary things, but we never teach them about…

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Talks on Health. Doctors in the Schools

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 1

When you and I were young there were no doctors in the schools. The plan of having the children periodically examined by a doctor is of very recent origin; but it was recognised as…

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Wireless Station at Public School. "An Australian Marconi."

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 4

A wireless station has been established in connection with the Narrabri Public School. The permission of the Postmaster-General was obtained, with the usual limitation as to…

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Dalton Public School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 4

The Minister of Public Instruction has approved of the preparation of full plans and specifications for carrying out improvements in connection with the Public School at Dalton…

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Bourke-street Public School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 4

A general meeting of the Parents and Citizens' Association connected with the above school was held at the school on Thursday evening. Mr. Garland (the principal) presided, and there was…

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Compulsory School Attendance

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 2

During the first half of last year 32,098 children in New South Wales between the ages of 16 and 14 failed to…

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The School of Life

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 2

We are here, I believe, to learn rather than to teach, to endure rather than to act, to be slain rather than to slay; we are tolerated in our errors and our harness, in our conceit and…

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Yass District School

The Yass Courier · Monday 19 May 1913 · page 2

The pupils attending the above school will render two operettas in the Mechanics’ on Friday evening, “Bo-peep and Boy Blue,” and…

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Public School Concert, Taralga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 May 1913 · page 4

The Empire concert in aid of Taralga Public School Library and Prize Fund took place on Saturday last before a very large audience. Fortunately the weather was fine, and enabled…

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Our Schools Inspector

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 21 May 1913 · page 4

Referring to Mr. G. T. Cotterill, the new schools inspector in this district, Temora "Independent" says:— "He has visited a number of surrounding…

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Yass District School

The Yass Courier · Thursday 22 May 1913 · page 2

At the Mechanics’ to-morrow night, the pupils of the Yass District School will give an entertainment, consisting of a Cantata, “Tiny Tots,” by the…

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Bowning Public School

The Yass Courier · Thursday 22 May 1913 · page 5

Mr. McGirr has been notified that the Minister of Public Instruction has approved of the acceptance of a tender for the erection of a new…

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Public School Cooking Classes. an Interesting and Useful Study

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 1

There are few people who realise what the cooking classes established in connection with the public schools of this state really are and…

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East Goulburn Public School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 6

The children assembled in the schoolground in the morning as usual. They marched past and saluted the flag, and drawing up into line again sang "God Save the King," and gave…

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At the High School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 6

Proceedings commenced at the High School with the saluting of the flag. The Union Jack had been hung outside the building, and in front of this the scholars wire formed in…

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