Last Day of School Holidays
Yesterday was the last day of the school vacation—and children who will go back to school to-day made the most of it. Top: B…
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Schools, 1949
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New Infants' School at Adamstown
The infants' section of the new school being built at Payne's Paddock, Adamstown, is nearing completion. When completed, the…
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FIRST-DAY SIDELIGHTS—When big sister had gone to school at Newcastle East today Mrs. R. Williams had great difficulty in rest raining her younger daughter, who also wanted to start. Her time will come later. At right: Dorothy Moss was a proud little girl on her way to school for the first time today, accompanied by her mother…
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Following heavy rain, the final of the secondary schools vacation cricket competition set down for No. 1 Sports Ground…
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CHICAGO, Feb. 2. A.A.P.—Deadly chlorine gas, used as a weapon in the first world war seeped into the classrooms of the…
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Newcastle Teachers' College will open at the end of this month or the beginning of March, when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Teacher Favours Fitness Camps
National Fitness camps at Point Wolstoncroft and Broken Bay were recommended to parents by the Headmaster (Mr. R. Thomas) at a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dietitian To Visit Schools
A Public Health Department dietitian would visit boarding schools and children's homes in the Newcastle district from February…
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There was confusion among some Newcastle mothers who took children to school for the first time yesterday morning. When the children had been…
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MR. A. W. HOLMES, who has taken up part-time duties as art master at Newcastle Boys' High School, is the first male art…
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The Department of Education was providing a new class room for Kotara School which would be completed in a week,…
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THE STATEMENT that Mr. A. W. Holmes is the first male art teacher to be appointed to a high school in New South Wales will no…
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Principal of Newcastle Teachers' College (Mr. Griffith H. Duncan, M.A.) is expected to take up duties in Newcastle on…
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LONDON, Feb. 4. A.A.P.—An Educational Department official denied that London County Council schools would teach sex as a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Smoking, Swearing In Strange School "Herald" Service
LONDON, Feb. 4.—Smoking and swearing are permissible in Britain's strangest school. In 40-acre grounds at Tylehurst…
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The annual meeting of South Wallsend Progress Association appointed Messrs. W. Walker and W. Ashton to interview the…
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SYDNEY: Police are investigating the death of a 14-year-old schoolboy who died at his home in Billyard-ave., Rushcutter's Bay last night. He is Geoffrey Ronald White…
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The Minister for Education has kept faith with Newcastle by meeting punctually his promise to found a teachers' college. It will start…
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Miss Hilda McIntosh, daughter of Mr. E. J. McIntosh, of Toronto, has been appointed to the staff of the new Newcastle Teachers'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mass For Maitland School Children
About 1000 pupils of Roman Catholic schools at West Maitland attended St. John's ProCathedral this morning for a…
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