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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1884

136 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 7

Newcastle Superior Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 September 1884 · page 3

BY an advertisement in another column, it will be seen that the concert in aid of the prize fund of the above school, which concert was to have taken place next…

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Newcastle Superior Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 October 1884 · page 4

WE beg to remind our readers that the annual concert in connection with the above, in aid of the prize fund, takes place in the Victoria Theatre on Wednesday next, 15th instant, at 8 o'clock. The…

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Superior Public School! Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 October 1884 · page 3

THE above concert, in aid of the prize fund, takes place this evening at the Victoria Theatre. On this occasion, the school children will sing six or seven selections of…

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Teachers Promoted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 October 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The following are pupil teachers who gained promotion by successful examination in June last: Elizabeth Bain, Frederick Halbert, and…

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Newcastle South Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 October 1884 · page 1

THE long-talked-of concert in connection with the Junction Public School was held in the Mechanics' Institute, Burwood, on Friday evening last, 10th instant, and was a decided success. The large hall…

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Newcastle Superior Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 October 1884 · page 3

THE most successful school concert which has been given in this city for some years, was rendered in the Victoria Theatre on Wednesday evening last by the pupils of…

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Religious Instruction in Public Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1884 · page 3

THE following important circular has been issued by the various nonconformist clergymen of Newcastle:—"Ministers' Association, Newcastle, September, 1884, "To the Parents of Children attending the Public…

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Religious Instruction in Public Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1884 · page 2

WHATEVER may be the cause, it is apparent that the ministers of religion have, at last, fully woke up to the duty devolving upon them, of making…

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Sunday School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1884 · page 2

ON Wednesday, the annual picnic in connection with St. John's Church of England Sunday School, Newcastle, took place at the Crystal Palace Gardens, Waratah. The…

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Christ Church Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1884 · page 3

CONTRACTOR Fisher, whose work of improving and altering Christ Church Public School, at the intersection of Church and Bolton streets, has almost arrived at…

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A New School Series

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1884 · page 2

WE have to hand from the noted firm of P. Hoffnung and Go, Sydney, sample copies of their new series of Federal Australian Commercial Copy Books. They consist of…

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Newcastle South Public School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 November 1884 · page 3

ON Friday last, the picnic in connection with the above school, took place at Ridge House Park, kindly lent for the occasion by Mr. John Henderson, and everything passed…

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Pupils' Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 November 1884 · page 2

THE lovers of vocal and instrumental music who were present at the Protestant Hall last evening, at the concert given by the pupils of Signor Lardelli, were well…

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Primitive Methodist Sunday School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 November 1884 · page 2

The children attending the Primitive Methodist Sabbath Schools of Lambton and New Lambton had a picnic in Moody's Paddock, Waratah. The young folks, about 400…

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Public School Teachers and the Civil Service Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 November 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The members of the public school teachers union held a meeting on Saturday to consider the financial position of teachers as affected by the…

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Dominican Convent School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 November 1884 · page 2

ON Wednesday evening last an entertainment was given in St. Mary's School-room, Newcastle, by the pupils of the Dominican Convent. There was a large and…

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Public School Teachers' Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1884 · page 4

A MEETING of Public School teachers will be held this morning in the School of Arts at 10.30, for the purpose of forming a branch of the Union. Teachers generally complain of their position under the Civil…

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Newcastle Superior Public School Cadets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1884 · page 4

ABOUT seventy of the members of the Cadet Corps had a shooting practise at the butts yesterday afternoon. On the whole, the results were very fair, and we have no doubt that in a short time this body will…

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Newcastle Superior Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 November 1884 · page 2

IN about three or four weeks hence, an exhibition of drawing, mapping, printing, needlework, etc., will take place in connection with this school, and at the same time…

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School of Arts for Bullock Island

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 November 1884 · page 3

THE public meeting convened by the committee of the Mutual Improvement Society, for the purpose of ratifying their action in the matter of…

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