Schools Column
State and non-State schools in the Newcastle district are busy this week practising for the full-scale rehearsal on April 11 of their Jubilee Celebrations display. THERE will be two rehearsals next…
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Schools, 1951
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Around the Schools Gun Salute At Teachers' College Ceremony
Salutes from six-pounder anti-tank guns will probably mark the three stages of the "swearing-in" ceremony to be re-enacted by Newcastle Teachers' College students at the Jubilee pageant on April 18. The Commanding Officer of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pianos Sought for School
Jesmond Parents and Citizens' Association decided last night to try to provide the school with two pianos…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gateshead School Labour Appeal
Gateshead Parents and Citizens' Association decided to appeal for voluntary labour to clear ground for a school vigoro and cricket…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Extra Sydney Buses for Local Schools' Jubilee Display
Newcastle Transport Department has arranged to bring at least 35 buses from Sydney on Wednesday to augment the local fleet to transport 8000 children from district schools to No. 1 Sports Ground…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge School Building Programme
SYDNEY, Thursday.—In 1901, the Department of Education spent £57,663 on school buildings; to-day it was well into the swing of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brick School At Kotara Promised Soon
The present Kotara school would soon be replaced by a modern brick building, and because of this parents in the district should not send…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Union Training for Schoolboys
Merewether-Carlton will begin schoolboy training at Mitchell Park, Merewether at 10 a.m. tomorrow…
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Six thousand schoolchildren taking part in the school's jubilee display at Newcastle Sports Ground on April 18 will wear…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kotara Wants Third Teacher
Following a report by the headmaster (Mr. Hayes) that there were now 90 pupils at Kotara School, the P. and C…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pony Rides At School Gala
"ON PONIES BUILT FOR TWO."—One of the highlights at New Lambton South School gala day on Saturday afternoon was the riding on horseback. Among the lucky children were (left to right): Jeffrey Johns (9), Paul Owen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Teaching Methods At "Test" School
SYDNEY: Until two years ago a school without classes or exams, where hobbies are part of school work, was merely a schoolboy's idea of paradise…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cramming 'Out' At Schools
The objective of the modern schoolteacher was to encourage the child to learn from experience and not from listening, or reading,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →School Heads "Stop Boys Playing Union"
Some headmasters of district High Schools were again objecting to pupils playing in week-end football competitions, Mr. R…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Students At Atom School
Dr. J. E. Johnston, of the Harwell atomic energy research establishment, England, demonstrates a simple remote-handling device for radio-active materials to students at the establishment's school for industrial and medical works. The school is Europe's first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Final Rehearsal Plans For Schools' Display
Final arrangements are being made today to ensure that the combined rehearsal of Newcastle Schools' Jubilee exhibition at No. 1 Sports Ground tomorrow will proceed smoothly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →10,000 School Pupils In Jubilee Rehearsal
Nearly 10,000 schoolchildren took part in today's final rehearsals for the Schools' Jubilee Celebrations next Wednesday afternoon. Schools were represented from as far distant as Belmont,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suburban and District Pennants For Mayfield West School Houses
Pennants will be presented to newly-formed Mayfield West School houses on Empire Day. The Headmaster (Mr. S. Delves)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cooperation On School Swimming
Newcastle City Council decided last night to cooperate with the Department of Education in arranging for schools to use…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Slow" Signs At School Corner
The Minister for Transport (Mr. Sheahan) has advised the Junction Demonstration Parents and Citizens' Association that "Slow" signs will…
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