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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1947

1,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 55

Bursaries for High School Girls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 8

Bursaries have been awarded to two pupils of Newcastle Girls' High School by the Parents and Citizens' Association, to enable them to continue…

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Head Organised Gang: Captured School "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, March 6.—A headmaster organised a gang and captured another headmaster's preparatory school after breaking down the doors…

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Conditions At Jesmond School "Have To Be Seen To Be Believed"

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 2

Development in the Jesmond district, principally due to the completion of large housing projects, has created serious overcrowding at the Jesmond Public School, where the attendance has increased considerably during recent…

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Schoolboys' Squad Chosen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 8

Newcastle District selectors have chosen the following practice squad of boys from the school vacation competitions. They will practice at…

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267 Schoolgirls Missing in Ship

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 3

TOKYO, March 9. A.A.P.—A ship carrying 267 students of a girls' high school in Yamaguchi prefecture (Shikoku Island) has been missing since…

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Flowers for the Teacher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 6

Flowers for the teacher is an old and charming tradition and Newcastle children carry it on. Wendy Henderson taken a bunch of flowers for her teacher at New Lambton School…

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Children's Bus to School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 3

Children on the Kotara-New Lambton bus route had a special bus yesterday to take then to school. It was provided by the Newcastle Department of Road Transport Picture shows an eager rush of passengers…

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Catholic School Girls' Carnival

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 7

COMPETITORS in the ex-students' race at the Combined Catholic Schools' Swimming Carnival at the Ocean Baths yesterday (left to right): D. Kitchen (2nd), D. Mellon (1st), V. Dempsey, V. Pead, P. Hall and A. Rankin (3rd). SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL, with a scale model of the "Bluebird" with which he hopes to…

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Child Delinquents Challenge To Teachers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 2

THE finding of a delinquent child should be a challenge to his schoolteachers to try and find a remedy, the Deputy Headmaster of…

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Boys Charged With Murder Of Schoolmaster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 3

LONDON, March 11. A.A.P.—Five of the 10 boys charged with having murdered an assistant master at the Standon Farin approved school on…

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Progress Bodies Want Wine Bar Site for School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 4

The Cross Roads Council of Progress Associations was told that Cardiff-West End, Lake-road and Argenton Associations were opposed to…

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Parents to Visit School To Revive Interest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 4

In an effort to revive the parents and citizens' association and arouse interest in the school, the staff of the Newcastle Junior High School…

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Police Raid Gambling School: Many Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 4

"I am surprised that the Charlestown School of Arts Committee allows such things to go on," said Mr. H. L…

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Tighe's Hill Now Central School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 7

Since the start of the year, Tighe's Hill School had been reclassified as a central school, the Headmaster (Mr. M. McGrath) told a meeting…

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Parents Go Back to Schoolroom

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 5

A group of parents of third year boys were asked to a meeting yesterday at Newcastle Junior High School by the headmaster (Mr. R. K. Scott) to discuss problems of third year boys and of the school generally. Picture shows parents sitting in the schoolroom desks listening to addresses given by teachers…

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Mothers Returned To School For Advice On Study

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 2

It was a case of "back to school" for US mothers at the Newcastle Junior High School yesterday…

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Problem Of School Lunch

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 3

Parents should become more "school-lunch-conscious," says the Newcastle Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Shannon). He urges that for hot weather school children should be given sand-…

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Want Specialist Teachers at Primary Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 6

In his report to Junction Parents and Citizens' Association last night, the Headmaster (Mr. E L. Maguire) referred to the need to provide…

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£108 Raised at School Fete

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 6

The Treasurer (Mr. R. H. Mills) disclosed at the annual meeting of Mayfield West School Parents and Citizens' Association that a profit of…

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Toronto Infants' School Overcrowded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 6

The Headmistress (Miss C. Jones) told the annual meeting of Toronto Mothers' Club that more accommodation was required for the infants'…

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