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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1944

929 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 47

Suburban and District East-Lambton Needs School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 3

Some East Lambton parents would not allow their children to attend the new temporary school at Payne's paddock, New Lambton, the Secretary of Lambton…

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Adamstown P. and C. Want to Form a School Band

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 2

Adamstown Parents and Citizens' Association last night decided to Inform the District Council of Parents and Citizens'…

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Road Safety Talks For Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 2

If road accidents involving school-children are to be reduced in number, it will be necessary to reintroduce the police lectures to schoolchildren,…

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Repairs Wanted at Junction School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 4

Junction Parents and Citizens' Association wilt ask the Minister for Education to hove immediate repairs and alterations carried out at the former…

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Children's Frolic for Sunday School Picnic

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 4

Teachers at St. Michael's and AU Angel Sunday School. Mayfield East, arranged a children's frolic and dance to raise funds…

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English Women Teachers May Now Marry

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 1

LONDON. Tuesday.—A long controversy was ended in the Commons yesterday by removal ol the marriage ban on women…

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Schoolgirl Informer Killed by Mates

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday: Two Negro girls at a Harlem school stabbed another girl through the heart with a letter opener for reporting a theft to the teacher. The two girls, both aged 12. overheard Margaret Palton. 9. "telling teacher."…

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Kotara Wants School Shelter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 5

Kotara Parents and Citizens last night decided to petition protesting against the failure of the Department of Education to erect a weather shed at the…

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Two Negro Girls Kill Schoolmate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, May 10. A.A.P.— Two 12-year-old negro girls, after overhearing a schoolmate report to a teacher that they had stolen…

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Encourage School Sports Plans at Mayfield East

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 6

The Headmaster of Mayfield East School (Mr. C. M. Ebert) told the Parents and Citizens' Association last night that he would make a feature…

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N.e.s. Out of Some Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fifty per cent. of the space occupied by N.E.S. in schools had been returned for school purposes. In some cases…

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Sport at Mayfield School

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 5

"I am determined that sport will be a feature of this school; It is not strong at present," the headmaster of Mayfield East School…

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School Holidays

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 2

Departmental schools broke up to-day for holidays until May 23. The technical collage will break up to-morrow night and resume…

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Teachers Blame Drivers, Not Children, for Road Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 3

Schoolteachers, critical of "the carelessness of motor drivers and the number of accidents involving schoolchildren," took exception at a meeting of the Teachers' Fedration last night to statements that children's carelessness…

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More Land Is Needed For Islington School

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 5

Islington Parents and Citizens' Association will ask the Department of Education to resume a piece of land of approximately two…

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School Concert

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 5

A concert held to assist the Mayfield East School had been very successful, and had cleared more than £20 profit, it was…

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School Sport Carnival

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 4

A proposal for a sporting carnival for school children in September in Dangar Park was made last night to Mayfield East…

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Teachers' Concern at Overcrowded Buses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 2

Inadequate transport for school-children, and traffic dangers in streets near schools were referred to at a meeting of the Newcastle…

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Booragul Site For High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 2

Booragul was the site selected on the western side of the Lake Shire for a high school, the President of Newcastle District Parents and…

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Need for School at East Lambton

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 2

In preparation for an application for an infants' school at East Lambton, a list of names and ages of children in the area will…

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