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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1941

1,011 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 51

Early Australian Schools Headmaster of King's Paid £100 a Year Main entrance gates, Macquarie Fields School

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 4

Castle Meehan, Macquarie Fields; The King's School, Parramatta, and St. Mark's Church, Darling Point, are all linked together in Australian history through a member of the famous Macarthur family…

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Teachers Defeated by Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 7

Superiority of the A grade in the City and Suburban Cricket Association's competitions was demonstrated on Saturday when Lambton easily defeated a good Teachers'…

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Sunday School Picnic

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 5

More than 200 children and parents attended the combined Hamilton and Adamstown Presbyterian Sunday School picnic at Speers Point on Saturday…

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At Belmont School Strike Threat

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 5

Because they consider that overcrowding at Belmont school has reached saturation point, and that the conditions under which…

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U.S. Scholars See War Need New York, Feb. 4

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 4

A plea for declaration in the United States of "a stale of emergency...which will be equivalent to full industrial, military and naval…

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More Room Needed Domestic Science School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 6

"I think a crisis has arrived in the history of this school," said the Principal of the Domestic Science School (Miss M. Henson) at the annual meeting of the…

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New Course for High Schools

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 6

This young student does not appear too confident as he has his first lesson in the use of a plane. Proper facilities for manual training have yet to be provided in most high schools. Regarded as one of the moat important changes in the State educational system for a number of years is the introduction of…

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Mayfield East School Aids War Efforts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 7

At the annual meeting of the Mayfield East Parents and Citizens' Association last night, the Headmaster (Mr. M. Hale) reported that schoolchildren had raised £112…

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Classes Too Big at Central School 1120 Children on Roll

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 8

"The school is big enough for two schools," said the Principal (Mr. R. J. Stove) last night, in reference to the Central Junior Technical School…

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Technical Schools Overcrowded

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 5

Danger-point is being reached in the over-crowding of Newcastle technical schools, and in some cases passed, say…

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Free Milk in Schools

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 5

Following free-milk experiments in certain chosen schools in Sydney and Newcastle, individual schools were now being asked by the Department of…

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Library for Mayfield East School

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 5

An effort to expand library facilities will be one of the features of activities at the Mayfield East School this year, the headmaster (Mr. M. Hale)…

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Evacuation Plans in Schools

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 4

Parents of school children are to be circularised by the Department of Education for information to be used in formulating plans for evacuation in…

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Combined Secondary Girls' Schools' Annual Swimming Carnival

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 8

Many records were broken or equalled at the Combine Secondary Girls' Schools Annual Swimming Carnival, which was held at the Ocean Baths to-day. This is the first year that the P.S.A.A.A. has conducted…

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Children at School, But No Teacher Leeton

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 8

For the second time in a few weeks children assembled at Corbie Hill School, near Leeton yesterday, only to find that they were without…

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Teachers to Support Stewart House

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 2

The Newcastle branch of the Teachers' Federation decided last night to assist the appeal on behalf of Stewart House Preventorium, at Curl Curl. All schools…

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High School Girl Swimmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 8

STAND UP AND CHEER. Schoolgirls at yesterday's carnival…

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Apple a Day for N.z. Schoolchildren

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 9

WELLINGTON (N.Z.) Wednesday.—As part of the campaign to dispose of the apple crop, which would normally have been exported, the Government…

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Cessnock Additions to High School Staff

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 9

Speaking at the annual meeting at the Cessnock High School Parents and Citizens' Association last night, the Headmaster (Mr. J. Gibson) said that two…

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Combined High Schools Swimming Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 14

Still looking pale after his recent attack of influenza, John Erwin, Newcastle representative and holder of the Australian…

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