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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1947

1,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 55

Teachers Will Support University Move

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 2

Teachers should support the movement to form a University in Newcastle, Mr. J. Quinlan told the Newcastle Teachers' Federation last night…

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Want More Rooms at Jesmond School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 9

Jesmond Parents and Citizens' Association decided to ask the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) to erect a double portable classroom to house…

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Stop Press High School Cricket

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 16

SYDNEY: Intermediate schools cricket at Moore Park, Sydney. first innings 4/284 (closed). Newcastle, first innings 3/70…

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Junction School Women's Auxiliary

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 5

The Mayoress (Mrs. H. D. Quinlan) was re-elected president at the annual meeting yesterday of the Women's Auxiliary of the Junction…

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School Radios for Waratah

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 8

Waratah Parents and Citizens Association will try to raise sufficient money this year to install radio equipment in girls' and boys' sections of…

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Fisheries School Went Overboard

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday. — Thrown into the water from an overturned cutter off Shelley Beach, Cronulla, 13 ex-servicemen students of the…

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Teralba School Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1947 · page 7

A credit of £117 was reported at the annual meeting of Teralba Parents and Citizens' Association. It was decided to install a visual…

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1/- Appeal at Warner's Bay School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1947 · page 7

Children at Warner's Bay School have been given an envelope to raise 1/ subscription each. It was reported to the annual…

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Intermediate Schools Open Swimming Gala

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY: The new Intermediate Schools' Championship Carnival, claimed to be the largest swimming gala held annually,…

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University School For British Nurses "Herald" London Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 8

THE Council of the Royal College of Nursing in London has decided to set up a separate educational establishment for nurse…

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School Vacation Cricket Team For Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 11

Newcastle School Vacation team to play in the Green Shield competition at Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday and Friday will leave Newcastle by the 7.35 Flier on…

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Suburban and District Want Full High School Course at Plattsburg

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 6

A full high school course, including shorthand any typing, should be available at Plattsburg School, Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., told Lake-road…

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Projector, Radios Bought for Cook's Hill School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 4

Two of the school's major a[?]—one purchase of a projector for the secondary school and a wireless se[?] the primary school—had been…

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Schoolboy Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 10

J. Wooden has been selected to replace C. Puxty in Newcastle district schoolboy cricket team in the Green Shield match at Sydney Cricket…

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Cane Permitted In Schools

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 7

SYDNEY: Use of the cane by teachers in Education Department school in N.S.W. is permitted…

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School Cricket Junior High Boy's Eight For 11

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 10

R. Mitchell, Junior High School left hand slow bowler, who took eight wickets for 11 and top-scored with 22 of the team's 73, was the…

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Ask Teachers Why Essay Plan Was Rejected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 2

Newcastle Horticultural Council will ask the Teachers' Federation why it did not agree to an essay competition among schoolchildren on…

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Newcastle's Low Score In School Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 12

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Five minutes before stumps in the A. W. Green Shield match, New South Wales passed Newcastle's first innings score…

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Girls' High School Swim Record Broken

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 11

SYDNEY.—Roma Willcox, Australian junior 220 yards title and record holder, broke the combined Girls' High School 75 yards…

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Rain Stops Play in Schoolboys' Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 March 1947 · page 14

BRISBANE, Friday.—The N.S.W. schoolboys lost 4.65 against Queensland, when rain stopped play at 3.30 to-day. Davis, 18, Brierley, 14, and…

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