Getting Ready for School
"The cause of education bo hanged" he muttered as he sat down on the kerbstone on Shelby-street yesterday. He was a lad of thirteen. He spat through…
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School History of Australia
We havereceived from the publisher, Mr. F. F. Bailliere, of Melbourne, a copy of a "School History of Australia," just issued by him, under the editorship of Mr. Marcus Clarke, a gentleman well…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. Macquarrie River. Second Annual Report of All Saints' Church Sunday School
"PARENTS AND FRIENDS,—On behalf of the teachers, we have much pleasure in presenting to you a brief summary of the progress of the Sunday school during the past…
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THE annual treat in connection with the Old Place Sunday-school, Jamberoo, took place on Good Friday the 19th instant; and though the weather was somewhat…
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As intimated in our last issue, the Rev. Evelyn G. Hodgson. M.A., Diocesan Inspector of Schools under the Bishop of Sydney, commenced his inspection of the Church of England School in…
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Some interesting particulars of the Normal College of New York City are given in tho April number of Harper a New Monthly Magazine. We shall give an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MISCELLANEOUS. Sunday Schools
MR. BRIGHT'S address to the Sunday-school teachers at Rochdale reminds us of the day when such schools were the only ones open to the children of the labouring classes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →West Dapto Primary School. Inspected, June 13th, 1878
IN this school the religious teaching is very careful and efficient. In the third class, the anwering was very good both in scripture and catechism. In the second and first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Macquarie River Primary School. Inspected, June 14th, 1878
IN this school due attention is paid to the religious instruction. The children answered very fairly in the Old Testament, and very well in the New Testament. Owing…
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The Rev. E. G. Hodgson, the Diocesan Inspector of Church of England Schools in this colony, examined the school at West Dapto, and that at Macquarie River in the course of his recent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Liberal Education under the London School Board. (Herald's Correspondent.)
I Do not profess a wholesale admiration for the proceedings of the London School Board. They have spent money lavishly, not to say extravagantly, and have gone out of their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bulli School of Arts. (To the Editor of the 'Illawarra Mercury.')
SIR,—Permit me to remark through your columns that it is to be hoped the present movement to obtain a School of Arts or Public Hall here shall not be allowed to flag. Let us raise all the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. Shellharbour. Sabbath School Picnic
THIS event came off on Wednesday last ; the ground selected being a pretty grassy slope on Mr. Durrell's land, about two miles west of the township. The day was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. Jamberoo. Wesleyan Sabbath School Anniversary
ON Sunday, the 22nd ult., the Rev. W. Moore preached a sermon in connection with the above school to a large and attentive audience from cxxvi psalm and…
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A TEA and concert, in aid of the prize-fund of the above named school, was held in the schoolroom, Jerrara, on Friday night last. The night being clear, though somewhat…
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THE examination and annual s[?]rieen in connection with the abovementioned school, came off as announced on Wednesday last, the 12th inst. The morning broke disagreeably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News Opening of the Public School at Charcoal
A public demonstration in connection with the opening of the Public School just completed at Charcoal took place on Wednesday last. The proceedings took the form of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Berkeley Public School
A very interesting event, in the way of a public picnic and an exhibition of "work," &c., in connection with the Public School at Berkeley, took place on Friday last. The demonstration was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Union Sunday School Treat, Jerara Vale
ON Friday last the annual treat of the above-named school took place in a nice clear paddock near the school, and was well attended by the parents and friends of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wollongong Public School
The Annual Exhibition of "Work" in connection with this school took place at the Temperance Hall, on Wednesday last. The building, was gracefully ornamental on the…
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