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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1912

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The Perfect Teacher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 3

Enthusiasm, magnetism, clearness, and warm devotion are the qualities with which a teacher should prepare to equip himself in order that his lessons may…

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Schools in the Woods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 11

The best schools in the world are the schools of the woods and of simple homes, and the best teachers are young-hearted healthy parents…

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Roadway Subsides. Schoolboys Engulfed. Rome

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1912 · page 5

A party of 45 schoolboys were walking on a promenade at San Rome, when it collapsed, having been weak-end by rain…

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Sunday-school Union. Annual Meeting. Essential Sacraments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 5

The fifteenth annual meeting of the Newcastle Church of England Sunday School Union was held last night, in the Parish Hall, Church-street. The Dean of…

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Teachers' Union. First Annual Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 6

The first annual meeting of the Newcastle branch of the Public School Teachers' Union was held at the Newcastle School of Arts last evening, the…

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German Schools. the Modern Method

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 13

For military purposes Germany is one and undivided. In educational matters, however, the many kingdoms, duchies, principalities, and free cities that compose…

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Continuation Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 February 1912 · page 7

The evening continuation schools at Cook's Hill (commercial) and Wickham (artisan) reopened on Monday night after the Christmas vacation. The advantages…

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District News. Hamilton. Public School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 February 1912 · page 3

The annual picnic of the Hamilton Superior Public School was held in Mr. W. Donnelly's grounds at Toronto yesterday, and was a great success. Although the sky…

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Our Sydney Letter. Marriages and Births.—the Broken Hill Railway (Proposed).—"a Royal Visit." and No One Knows of It.—but the Duke Is Coming.—a Remakrable School Career.—three "Immigrants" From Tamworth.—sharks and Surf Bathers. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 February 1912 · page 5

There is justification for the gentle little crow with which we have hailed certain vital statistics—the triumph of the benedict over the bachelor for last…

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Charlestown. Public School Bazaar

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 3

A bazaar, in aid of the piano fund of the Charlestown Public School, was opened in the school building yesterday afternoon, by Mr. A. Edden, Minister for…

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The World of Mind. Teaching in Schools. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 5

Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner for Australia, has read a paper before the Scottish Geographical Society in Edinburgh, entitled "Two…

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Duel Between Schoolboys

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1912 · page 11

Another schoolboy duel hum taken place near Detmold, Germany. Two seventeen-year-old public schoolboys appear to have resorted to pistols to bottle a…

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Shot His Schoolmaster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1912 · page 11

Shouting, "That's our revenge on a school tyrant," a seventeen-year-old school boy, named Greein, fired four revolver shots at the professor of…

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Newcastle Schools. New School at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 4

The new year has brought many changes in connection with schools in Newcastle and district, a number of teachers having been transferred from…

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Schoolmasters Murdered. Sentences on the Boys. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 5

In connection with the charge of murder against eight boys belonging to the Meath industrial School, for the [?]eath of John Kelly, an assistant…

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Aviation School. for Special Training. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 March 1912 · page 5

Colonel Seely, the Parliamentary Under-secretary to the War Office speaking in the House of Commons, said that the training school for…

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British Education. Non-provided Schools. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 March 1912 · page 5

The House of Commons has passed the second reading of Sir George Marks' bill empowering owners of non-provided schools in single school areas…

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Crowded Schools. Minister's Proposals. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1912 · page 5

A deputation, introduced by Mr. Parkes, M.P., waited on Mr. Carmichael, the State Minister for Public Instruction, to-day, to urge that the scheme for increasing…

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Boolaroo. Sunday School Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 7

The annual meeting of the Northern District Baptist Sunday School Union was held at Boolaroo on Saturday. Mr. F. Nicholson was in the chair. The schools…

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Wickham. Public School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 5

The annual picnic of the Wickham superior Public School was held on Wednesday at Mr. Donnelly's grounds at Toronto, whither upwards of 900 children…

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