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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1889

208 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 11

Adamstown. Sunday School Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 October 1889 · page 7

The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-school anniversary took place yesterday, and, despite the very unpropitious weather the attendance at each service was large, and the…

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Wickham Superior Public School. Presentation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 October 1889 · page 6

YESTERDAY afternoon a number of friends assembled at the Wickham Superior Public School for the purpose of wishing Mr. G. H. Flannery good-bye on the eve of his…

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Schoolboy Blunders

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 October 1889 · page 3

A TEACHER, writing in Cornhill, gives some amusing instances of these, as made in reply to examination questions. He says:—There is a pleasing mixture of fact and fiction in…

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Burwood. South Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 October 1889 · page 3

A grand concert will be given solely by the pupils, under the conductorship of Mr. Cotterill, head master, in the Mechanics' institute, on Friday evening next, in aid of…

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State School Scholarships. New Exhibitions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 October 1889 · page 2

UNDER the Public Instruction Act of 1880, Superior Public schools and High schools are established in various centres of population to provide secondary education for pupils…

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Correspondence Mr. Creer and the School of Arts. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1889 · page 7

SIR,—In reference to an article in the Call of to-day, allow me to say that the statement as to Mr. Creer and the School of Arts is not accurately described…

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School Politicians at Nowra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 November 1889 · page 4

EVERY day experience teaches us that young Australia is very precocious. Not a day passes without some youngsters being brought up before the…

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Correspondence Mr. Creer and the School of Arts. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 6

SIR,—In Mr. Creers letter in to day's Herald and Advocate, he says: "I also thins the present secretary, Mr. Ross, will admit that chiefly through my advocacy he obtained his…

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Training School Appointment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 November 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Mr. Woodhouse has been appointed chief instructor for the Training School in Sydney…

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The Position of Teachers. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 7

SIR,—I am thankful that you have the courage of your opinions, and that the teachers of the district know they have one friend. Your leading article on the subject,…

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Burwood. Sunday-school Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 7

The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-school anniversary was celebrated on Sunday and Monday, and the weather was all that could be desired for the occasion. The attendance…

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The London Board Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—In consequence of representations made by the parents of some of the scholars under the London School Board system as to their inability to provide the…

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Public School for Young Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 November 1889 · page 3

THE fast rising and flourishing township of Young Wallsend has made such rapid strides that the Department of Education have, we believe, been in communication with the…

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St. Joseph's R.C. School, Burwood, Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 November 1889 · page 6

Another picnic up the Hunter River is that of St. Joseph's R.C. School Burwood, which be held at Tomago Boats for this will leave will the Market Wharf at 10.30 a.m., 11 a.m.,…

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Methodist Free Church School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 November 1889 · page 7

The children attending the Methodist Free Church Sunday-school had a trip to Tomago, whore they spent a very happy day under the care of their teachers and…

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Burwood Roman Catholic School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 November 1889 · page 7

The children of the above school and their relatives went by boat to Tomage, where a pleasant day was spent in mirth and frolic. The wants of the inner man had…

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The Industrial School Affair. The Girls Fined. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1889 · page 5

THE girls Dower, Gillespie, Carmichael, Stanfield, Toohey, and Hunter, the ring-leaders of the industrial school rebellion, were charged this morning with destroying…

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Stockton. School of Arts Debating Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 7

The members of the above society held their usual weekly meeting on Wednesday night. The president, Mr. W. Donnelly, was in the chair, and there was a large…

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Charlestown. Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 7

At last the work of repairing the Public School has been commenced, and certainly no the soon, seeing that the white ants have for a long time past had possession of the…

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Australian News. New South Wales. Religion in Public Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 November 1889 · page 6

THE tenth annual report of the Church of England Synod Committee on the question of special religious instruction in the public schools shows that the number of classes…

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