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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1947

1,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 55

Furniture for Belmont Infants' School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 6

Furniture would be provided for the room recently built at Belmont Infants' School, the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) advised Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A…

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New Pupils for High Schools Had Extra Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 2

New pupils for high schools will start work to-day after an extra day's holiday. There are vacancies in class 4B at…

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School Holidays End

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 1

"Creeping like a snail unwillingly to school" was Shakespeare's description of the 10th schoolboy. But Anthony Rigby's repugnance for school yesterday was too active for such a mild description. Noeline Rigby is seen trying to "entice" him into the…

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Alternative Site for Church School Refused

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 2

A request from [?]or Peters, on behalf of the Catholic Church authorities, to[?]purchase about all acre of ground from Greater…

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School Loses 31 Typewriters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Thirty-one typewriters have been stolen from the Dulwich Hill Home Science School. The loss was discovered…

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New School for Cardiff

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 6

Erection of a school at [?] Cross Roads, Cardiff, had [?] decided by the Department [?] education, but difficulty was [?]…

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Holidays Over—Schooldays Begin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 3

Yesterday was a serious day for Newcastle's schoolchildren. They went back to school. Some of them went back happily, others…

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Teachers Seek Birth Certificates

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY: Headmistresses of many infant schools in Sydney are asking parents to produce birth certificates before children are accepted for enrolment. Most schools will not enrol children under five, but others accept…

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Toronto School Overcrowded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

Toronto public school was badly overcrowded, the school Parents and Citizens' Association and Mothers' Club was told yesterday…

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Claim School Bus Overcrowded

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 5

Because the Transport Department will not provide an additional bus to convey children to Plattsburg School, there was every likelihood of…

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Schools Planned For Belmont, Marks Point

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 6

Proposals to use the existing Belmont Public School as an infants' school, and to erect a primary and secondary school on a new site at…

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Teacher's Death Closes School at Rathmines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 February 1947 · page 2

Children at Rathmines this week were not able to attend their school, which has been closed because the only teacher, Mr. T. E. Scott, died…

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No Pre-school Sessions on U.S. Radio

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 February 1947 · page 7

NEW YORK, Jan. 31. A.A.P.—Miss Ruth Fenner, who conducted the Australian Broadcasting Commission's "Kindergarten of the Air,"…

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Seek School Bus For Adamstown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 5

Adamstown Parents and Citizens' Association decided last night to send a deputation to the Department of Road Transport to ask for a special…

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Wheel From Car Injures Schoolboy

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 3

A five-year-old schoolboy. Brian Harrower. of 33 Council Street Cook's Hill, was injured in an unusual manner this morning…

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Carrington School Sheds Criticised

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 2

Carrington Public School's two shelter sheds were in a "disgraceful condition," members of the Parents and Citizens' Association said last…

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Want Classroom, Shelter Shed at Kotara School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 5

Kotara Progress Association decided to ask Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., to arrange for two schoolrooms at Payne's Paddock to be transferred to…

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Consider New Site for School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 5

Replying to protests by Boolaroo branch of the A.L.P. and parents and Citizens' Association against proposed resumptions of land for school purposes…

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Hamilton School Not Repaired

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 2

Although the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) had told Parliament that he hoped necessary repairs to Hamilton School would be…

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More Teachers at Belmont School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 February 1947 · page 5

The Headmaster (Mr. W. Forbes) reported to Belmont Parents and Citizens' Association that three extra teachers had been appointed to the…

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