Schoolgirl Producer For Backyard Concert
Hours of practice by a group of school children a Adamstown resulted in an unusual backyard presentation in aid of the Crippled Children's Hospital appeal…
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Schools, 1940
1,336 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 67
Dashing Century by O'brien Waratah Wins School Cricket Final
With eight wickets to spare, Waratah won the rinal of the schools vacation cricket competition, arranged by the Newcastle District Cricket Association, at…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Teachers May Use Motors Barrier Strikers Ban Goods Transport SYDNEY
The Barrier Industrial Council and the Australian Railways Union have agreed to place no restrictions on the return of 70 schoolteachers to Broken Hill by motor…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Patricia's Notebook The £.s.d. of Back to School
PARENTS this week face many problems and many implications. There is the problem of helping the children who will go on to higher education to choose a…
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Swansea won by narrow margin from Caves Beach in the final of the surf-boat race at Merewether Surf Carnival on Monday. Upper right: One of the surf-ski team which gave an exhibition…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schools Resume To-day Starting Age Six Instead of Seven
All public schools in Newcastle, Sydney, and the eastern part of New South Wales will begin the new year to-day. The exceptions are the schools in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock High School Changes
The enrolment of students at Cessnock High School this year may not reach the record figure of 1250 for last year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Congestion Problem in High Schools Classes Exceed Maximum "Danger Point" Is Being Reached
Newcastle school pupils went back to school to-day, after their six weeks' Christmas vacation. But, in many cases, high…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →High School Students Back at Work
NEWCASTLE school pupil, went bad to school to-day after six weeks holiday. In some schools, increased enrolments brought accommodation problems which were met only by increasing the size of the closes beyond the accepted limits. Here is a section of a fifth year dais at New castle Boys' High. It has an enrolment of 34. The minimum size of a fifth year class is supposed to be 25 to 28 pupils…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Congestion In High Schools
COMPARED with five or six years ago, the total school population of New South Wales is down by some thousands of pupils. This might suggest that the perpetual problem of the Education Department—accommodation-would be eased. But the problem does…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland, Cessnock, Kurri West Maitland Heavy Enrolment at Schools Effect of Camp is Slight
About 2000 children will attend schools at Maitland this year. Yesterday infants and primary pupils returned to school for the first 1940 term, and high…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Space Problem Acute Some Secondary Schools Overcrowded More Classrooms and Buildings Wanted
Principals of some of Newcastle's secondary schools cannot find room for first year pupils who will enrol this week Classrooms are already overcrowded…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New High School for Singleton Singleton
Rapid progress is being made with the construction of a new Intermediate High School at Singleton. The Minister for Education (Mr. D. H. Drummond) will…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Took Watch From Schoolboy Man Said He Was Policeman
A wristlet watch and school books were taken from a schoolboy. William Warby, of off Oak-avenue, Islington, yesterday afternoon by a man…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New School May Be Built at Sandgate City Council Asked For Land Grant
The Education Department is considering the establishment of an infants' school at Sandgate for the convenience of children who now have to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Singleton's Claims for Air Training School Singleton
Singleton's claims would be fully considered, by the Air Board in selecting sites for establishments to be set up under the Empire air scheme, the Minister for Air…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Grass Fire Near High School
No damage was caused by a grass fire which broke out on Vacant land in Pearce-street, East Maitland, near Maitland Boys' High School, last night. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →£20,000 Trades School
THE ILLUSTRATION on this page is from an architect's drawing of the new trades building, fitting and machine ship being crected at the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Newcastle Hospital Schools Students Happy in Face of Adversity
There are schools in Newcastle where no bell rings, where the classes do not worry the teachers, where the pupils are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Change of Wind Saved Barnsley Public School Bushfire Was Advancing On Mile-long Front
A change in the direction of the wind about 4.30 yesterday afternoon solved a stiff problem for fire-fighters when the Barnsley Public School was…
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