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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1914

217 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 11

Baptist Sunday School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 January 1914 · page 4

The annual picnic of the Newcastle Baptist Tabernacle Sunday School, together with the Merewether branch, was held at Tomago yesterday, when the steamer…

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A Back Blocks' Teacher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 January 1914 · page 13

Miss Maclean, daughter of the late Archdeacon Maclean, underwent some perilous experiences last week. She has been teaching at Kakatiki school, and…

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Italian School Children

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 January 1914 · page 11

School life in Italy is taken very easily by the small scholars, but middle-class parents are anxious for their sons and daughters to distinguish themselves: and…

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The Dancing School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 January 1914 · page 11

Professor Zebra and his wife decided to start a dancing school, so they hung a notice about it on the gate. They had not long to wait. The first…

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At School with Mr. Lloyd George

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 5

Dr. Burford Hooke, of the Memorial Hall tells an interesting story of about an old schoolfellow of the chancellor of the Exchequer. A young minister, the Rev…

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Our Elementary Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 9

The opinion of educationists is shared by employers of labour, that the elementary schools, so far from developing intelligence, actually deaden it, unfit those…

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Country Schools. Medical Inspection. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 4

The extension of the scheme of medical inspection to country schools raises the problem as to what can be done with pupils in whom physical defects have…

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Maitland District. Maitland High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 6

Miss Grossmann, principal of the Girls' Public High School, West Maitland, has been promoted to the charge of the new Public High School for Girls at North…

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New Catholic School. at Tighe's Hill. Blessed by the Bishop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 January 1914 · page 6

The Right Rev. Dr. Dwyer, Bishop of Maitland, blessed and opened the new Catholic school at Tighe's Hill yesterday morning, in the presence of a large…

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Trade Schools. the New Scheme. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 January 1914 · page 5

It we announced recently that it was intended to reorganise the whole system of technical education and introduce trades schools. The Education…

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Trades Schools. the Advisory Boards. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 January 1914 · page 4

"It the trades schools about to be established are to prove successful," said Mr. Carmichael, the Minister for Public Instruction, this morning, "the instruction…

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Trades Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 4

It is obviously desirable that the teaching which a youth receives in a trade school should be in close sympathy with the work which he is doing…

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School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1914 · page 6

The children of St. John's Cathedral parish were entertained at a picnic on the Maitland Park yesterday, to give them an opportunity of bidding Bishop Dwyer…

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Travelling School Hospital. Proposal by Mr. Carmichael

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1914 · page 7

Speaking at the Druids' banquet in Sydney, Mr. Carmiachael, the State Minister for Education, said that the Government proposed to establish a…

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Travelling School Hospital

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1914 · page 4

The introduction of the system of medical inspection of school children was necessarily followed by the question as to how treatment was to be…

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Methodist School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1914 · page 4

The annual picnic of the Dangar-street (Wickham) Methodist Su[?] School was held at Tomago, under glorious sunshine conditions. The Sham[?]…

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Cathedral Sunday-school. Distribution of Prizes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 5

The distribution of prizes gained during the past year by the scholars attending the Newcastle Cathedral Sunday School was largely attended last evening…

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Newcastle School of Arts. Annual Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 January 1914 · page 6

The annual meeting of the Newcastle School of Arts was held in the lecture hall of the institution last evening. Dr. Wilfred Nickson (president) was in the…

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A N.s.w. Public School Teacher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1914 · page 10

Mr. J. F. Gunnell, Public School Teacher, 266 Genmore-road, Paddington, Sydney, writest "I have used your excellent mixture for coughs and colds, viz.,…

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Evening Schools. Apathy of Parents. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1914 · page 5

While the attendance at many of the evening continuation schools last year was highly satisfactory, and the total enrolment showed an increase over the…

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