Girls Set Fire To Schools, £446,000 Damage
ROCK ISLAND (Illinois), April 7, A.A.P.—Two 14-year-old girls yesterday confessed that they set fire to two schools, of which one,…
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Schools, 1950
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Last Day Of Easter School Holidays
The weather was not very kind for the last day of the schools' Easter holidays, but the children found plenty to amuse them. Above: John Coulter (Stockton), Noelline Pool (Muwillumbah). At right: Dawn Roberts (Dunedoo) at rear, with their…
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Following complaints concerning the condition of the Hamilton North school grounds the Minister for Education (Mr…
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The yearly fall in fourth year attendances had begun, the Headmaster of Newcastle Technical High School (Mr. J. J. Forster) told the…
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Public and denominational schools in Newcastle and district resumed today after the Easter holiday break. First-year and second-year students at Newcastle Teachers' College also commenced practical…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Around the Schools: No Short Cut To "Times Tables"
Teachers are constantly finding new methods for teaching arithmetic but children still have to learn that two and two make four. A new book on the teaching…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →School Tribute To Mr. R. James, Junr
The pupils and staff at Kurri Kurri and Pelaw Main schools paid tributes yesterday to Mr. Rowland James, jun., who died on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Parents Press For Tighe's Hill School Repairs
Tighe's Hill Parents and Citizens' Association will ask the Education Department through Mr. Hawkins, M.L.A., that minor…
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Shirley Edwards, 12, of Newcastle-street, East Maitland, injured her left thigh when she fell at school yesterday After…
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LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): The National Association of Schoolmasters yesterday passed a resolution claiming that sex education should not be relegated to teachers but was the natural duty of parents. The conference expressed…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (O.S.R.).—A Hundred student from three Los Angeles high schools became involved in a riot over hitch-hiking rights at a favorite street corner where the boys waited to signal free car rides home after school…
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These three students of the Newcastle Teachers' College are busy in class. They are taking part in the physical education section of…
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Proceeds of Plattsburg Parents and Citizens' Association fete last night were £112. The Treasurer (Mrs. I. Crooks) said expenses…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Letter Box School Problem
For shortage of schools and teachers, I presume the war is made the scapegoat. But as I see it, we have raised the school…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Schools' Winter Sports
Newcastle P.S.A.A.A. has arrangements well in band for the (Commencement of winter sporting competitions for Primary and Secondary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Suburban and District Fete At Toronto Infants' School
Toronto Infants' School held a fete on the school grounds. The function was opened by Miss D. Henson (Cary Bay), former…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Stabbed At Fan Tan School
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Two Chinese were stabbed during a fight in a Little Bourke-street fan tan den last night…
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Newcastle's pre-school needs would be sympathetically considered when the Government had determined its policy on nursery school…
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Some are always good and kind, Mistakes they never seem to mind, And when the cane you ought to get,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah School Repairs
The Department of Education work staff had begun general repairs to the exterior of Waratah School, the Headmaster (Mr. R…
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