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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1950

1,114 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 56

School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 5

Each morning I get up at eight, To hurry off to school; It wouldn't do if I were late, For I might get the rule…

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City School To Hold Drive For Members

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 4

Newcastle East Patents and Citizens' Association will send circulars to parents in an effort to increase active membership…

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School Girl Gored To Death By Bull

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 1

BRISBANE: A 10-year-old school girl was gored to death by a maddened bull within 200 yards of her home near Gatton. She was Sylvia Duncan, who…

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Red Literature In Singapore School

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 6

SINGAPORE Tues. (A.A.P.— Reuter).—Banned Communist literature and newspapers were discovered in a raid on Nayang…

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Showers Sought For School

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 5

"After the Doys had been playing in the school grounds they became covered in soot and oil and looked worse than…

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Tenders Called For School Fire-Escape

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 10

Hamilton Central Boys' School P. and C. Association last night received advice from the Minister for Education…

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Functions Arranged For Hamilton School

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 5

Hamilton Central School P. and C. Association last night decided to hold a dance in August for the girls' secondary…

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Citizenship Talk To Student Teachers

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 5

To bring to the attention of teachers in training the recommendations of the Australian Citizenship Convention, the Principal of Newcastle Teachers' College (Mr. G. H. Duncan) will address students on four points…

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School's Column

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 16

Mr. J. W. Staines, B.A., B.Ec, Vice-Principal of Newcastle Teachers' College, who spoke on "Human Personality and Character" at the Methodist Youth Workers' Conference this week, said he considered one…

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Around the Schools: Stone-Laying Big Day For Belmont

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1950 · page 8

Twelve hundred children from lakeside schools will see the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) lay the foundation stone of Belmont Secondary School to-morrow morning…

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Levy To Assist Student Teachers Urged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1950 · page 4

A voluntary levy on teachers to assist student teachers who were finding it difficult to live on the trainee allowance was suggested to…

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Rain Reduces School Attendances By Half

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1950 · page 6

Attendances at the majority of schools in the Newcastle district have been reduced by more than half through the continuous heavy rain. Infants' departments are…

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School League Teams In Sydney Games

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1950 · page 3

Two Rugby League teams, representing Newcastle schools, travelled to Sydney yesterday. They will meet Illawarra at Redfern Oval…

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Show Societies Pressing For Farm School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1950 · page 12

Fourteen show associations will this month ask the Government for an agricultural high school in the Hunter Valley…

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Heffron Sets Stone For School At Belmont To Cost £150,000

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 June 1950 · page 1

The Minister for Education (Mr. R. J. Heffron) today laid the foundation stone of the new Belmont Secondary School, which is estimated to cost more than £150,000. The school, the first of its…

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School Libraries Labelled "Intellectual Workshops"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 June 1950 · page 6

School libraries are better equipped today than ever before. Every year parents and citizens associations in the Newcastle district give hundreds of pounds to schools to enable them…

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School Sports Cancelled

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 June 1950 · page 15

Owing to the heavy rain on Wednesday all fixtures in the winter sporting competitions for Secondary Boys' Schools were Cancelled. All…

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Lake Candidate Would Urge More Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1950 · page 6

The provision of a hospital and more schools in Lake Macquarie Shire was foreseen by Mr. J. B. Simpson, endorsed Labour…

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Secondary School At Belmont

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1950 · page 1

The Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) laid the foundation stone of the new Belmont secondary school yesterday. Top: Children…

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Newcastle Party For W.E.A.'s School

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 10 June 1950 · page 11

Newcastle W.E.A. students to-day joined Sydney students at the annual King's Birthday week-end school at Newport,…

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