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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1950

1,114 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 56

Student-Teachers Have To Take On Holiday Job

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 5

Many students of the Newcastle Teachers' College are spending their two months' Christmas vacation working as waitresses, steelworkers, factory hands and in other temporary positions to augment the allowance they receive from the Education Department while they are doing their training…

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School-term Camps for Mineworkers' Children

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 6

Once again the Joint Coal Board, in co-operation with the Department of Education and the National Fitness…

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Spastic School At Cessnock

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 7

With the collaboration of the directors of Cessnock branch, the Association for Crippled Children hopes shortly to open a spastic…

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Schoolboys Learn Cycling Safety

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 3

Learning the ways of safety at the Schoolboys' Own Exhibition in London. A police-sergeant shows some boys "Mr. Care's…

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Increased Grants To Teachers Urged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 12

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Secretary of the Australian Council of the Employers' Federation (Mr. R. Powell) told the Australian…

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Belmont School To Cost Over £150,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 2

The cost of the new secondary school at Belmont would be more than £150,000, the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) advised…

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Schools Resume Tomorrow; Record Entrants Problem

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 2

Public schools in Newcastle will reopen tomorrow after the Christmas vacation. There will be record numbers of entrants to high schools and in the infants' departments. Most denominational schools…

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Stories From the Classics Tom Brown's Schooldays

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 5

"TOM BROWN'S Schooldays," by Thomas Hughes, is the story of a boy who went to that fine old English school Rugby when Dr…

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Back to School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 5

By Anne Dawson, 13, of Fifth-street, Weston. Ten points…

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Catholics Urge School Aid On U.K. Election Candidates

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.). —The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Griffin, last night urged British Catholics to press upon election candidates "the justice of the claim for settlement of the Catholic schools' problem."…

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2222 Newcastle Students Begin High School Courses

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 5

Thirteen State schools in Newcastle today enrolled 2222 pupils for study in various branches of High School education. All pupils gained their High School Entrance Certificate last year. The…

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New School Opens: Teachers' Praise

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 11

The new primary school at New Lambton South (Payne's Paddock) was a splendid building and one of the best he had…

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Back To School—Then Playtime

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 1

Every child was wearing his best face and hair-do for the reopening of school yesterday. But in some cases the…

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Wallsend School Repairs Delayed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 4

Because of the amount of work waiting for the painting and repair staff, work at Wallsend School ground could not be started for…

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School Did Not Start For Some Infants

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 3

School did not start yesterday for some infants. Headmistresses had the Education Department's permission to delay new enrolments…

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Around the Schools: Some Books Cost More This Year

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 5

School exercise books would cost as much as 25 per cent more than last year, Newcastle stationers said yesterday. ONE stationer said about 90 per…

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Geoffrey Just Didn't Like School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 3

These children from New Lambton South Infants' School started the school year happily enough yesterday, but (at right)…

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Schoolboys Picked Spot for Hot Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 8

Cooling off at the Ocean Baths yesterday were these schoolboys, happily surrounded by cold water. From left: Robert…

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Schools' Sports

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 18

Sportsmasters and sportsmistresses, of primary schools and sportsmasters of secondary schools will meet at Hamilton School at 4 o'clock next…

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Population Is OutGrowing The Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 2

The beginning of every school year finds Mr. Heffron, as Minister for Education, in the unenviable position of a man who…

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