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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1943

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Nes Technical School Starts Jan. 11

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 January 1943 · page 2

The Director of NES (Mr. Hicks) and the Major (Ald. Dunkley) will officially open the NES technical instructors school…

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Current Topics School Swimming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 2

THE DEPARTMENT of Education Vocational Swimming Classes will start at the Ocean Baths to-day. The classes will continue for a fortnight…

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School Children Taught to Swim

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 3

Between 30 and 40 children attended the opening classes to-day at the Newcastle baths when the vocational swimming classes…

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Industries Men for Nes School

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 2

About 30 men from Newcastle's heavy industries will attend the NES Technical Instructors' School to open here…

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Education for Teachers Recommended

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY: Recommendations that all teachers should be given higher educational training, and that they should have…

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N.e.s. Instructors' School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1943 · page 4

The N.E.S. Technical Instructors' School will open at Islington Technical College on Monday night. This is the first school of its kind to be…

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School Teachers Called Up

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY: Release from the Department of 50 per cent, of the 530 teachers in cusses 1. 2 and 3. who have been called up for the…

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Cricket Council to Encourage Game in Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 6

NEWCASTLE Cricket Council will be revived to-night. Its chief objective will be to advance cricket in district schools. At a…

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Maehl Too Good for Schoolboys

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 6

P. Maehl, a colt in Newcastle district cricket competition, was the outstanding player in the schoolboys' vacation competition, which was continued…

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Children Who Leave School Must Register

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE: All children are required to register with the Manpower authorities immediately it is decided that they are…

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Girls Fit Themselves as Physical Culture Teachers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 4

CLAD IN SHIRTS and shorts or light frocks, the 68 girls, attending the junior physical instruction course at Newcastle Girls' High…

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Schoolteachers to Be Released

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Before the summer school vacation ends. 50 per cent. of the 530 schoolteachers in Classes 1, 2 and 3, who have been…

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Why Children Fail at High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

The main task in the guidance of high school pupils is the prevention and cure of failures. Failures may be classified under three headings—achievement failures, social failures and vocational failures…

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School Play Centres

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

COOK'S HILL.—The enrollment at the Cook's Hill play centre has now reached 310. About 100 of the children, in charge of the…

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School Sport

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 6

At Newcastle Boys' High School sports. J. Rincheval tries a shot putt with a medium ball. He is taking the…

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Temporary School Buildings May Be Ready After Vacation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 2

Temporary buildings will be erected on Payne's Paddock to provide accommodation for pupils of the former New Lambton School…

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Merewether Leads Schoolboys

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 6

Merewether is leading in the school-boys' vacation cricket competition with 37 points, followed by Hamilton 27. Waratah-Mayfield 21, Wickham 11…

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Nes Instructors' School Lecture

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 5

Mr. Harold C. Davis, of the States NES Department, will lecture to the Newcastle NES Technical Instructors' School at the…

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Leave from School to Pick Grapes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 2

Vignerons in the Cessnock district believe they have overcome the labour difficulties of harvesting the grape crop this season…

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First Holiday Swim School Ends

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 2

Fewer than 20 children failed to learn to swim at the first summer swimming school at Newcastle Baths. The school ended…

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