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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1952

814 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 41

The Letter Box Teaching Teachers

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 May 1952 · page 4

If the "low standard of education" mentioned in recent letters means what I think it does, then that…

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School Display At Lambton Park

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1952 · page 2

Lambton Parents and Citizens' Association will organise an exhibition of maypole and folk dancing by pupils of…

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New System For Schools Explained

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 May 1952 · page 3

The Area Director of Education (Mr. D. Drake) explained the Department of Education's new decentralisation…

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Nutritious Lunches For Schoolchildren

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1952 · page 6

School lunches containing nutritious balance are an expensive item today and, allied with oilier school requirements, are a heavy drain on the weekly budget. Canteens are established…

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Radio For School Ready Soon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 6

Wireless equipment which New Lambton School Parents and Citizens' Association was buying for the girls and…

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School Tennis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 10

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The only country schoolboy left in the State schools tennis tournament, R. Mihell, of Kyogle,…

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Schools Column

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 10

The Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) will meet delegates of the Newcastle P. and C. District Council at the City Hall on Friday at 3.45 p.m. to discuss various school requirements. THE first set of pictures…

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Around the Schools University, College Careers Discussed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1952 · page 6

Openings for boys with the Leaving Certificate were outlined to Newcastle Boys' High P. and C. Association this week. The school Careers' Adviser (Mr. A. Denham) told…

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Teachers Reject Salary Offer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1952 · page 3

Newcastle branch of the Teachers' Federation last night recommended that the federation council reject a…

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School Sports Winners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 May 1952 · page 3

Winners at Wickham Home Science High School sports yesterday included (from left) Joyce Tindall (50 yards, 12 years), Joyce McGuire (Junior champion), Maureen McKinnon (senior champion) and Betty Maslen (open high jump)…

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Empire Day In The Schools

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 May 1952 · page 4

Appropriate celebrations of Empire Day in all schools today culminated with a half-holiday and this evening most children have planned fireworks displays and bonfires…

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Self-Wounding To Avoid School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, May 23. A.A.P.—A 14-year-old girl shot herself with her brother's sporting rifle at Luberton…

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£347 Raised At School Fete

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1952 · page 4

Cessnock High School's annual fete raised £347, the monthly meeting of the Parents and Citizens' Association…

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Fete at School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 May 1952 · page 3

The Lord Mayor (Ald. Armstrong) opened a fete in the grounds of Wallsend East Infants' School on Saturday. He…

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Two Conferences For Teachers

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 May 1952 · page 4

Teachers in secondary, primary and infants' schools will attend two conferences in Newcastle…

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"Old Girls" Work For School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 5

A meeting of former school captains and vice-captains of Newcastle Home Science High School, at the school…

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Judge's Meeting With School Friend

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 13

When he was presented with a pair of white gloves, signifying the absence of criminal cases from the…

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School At Toronto Approved

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 5

The Minister for Education (Mr. Helfron) has approved erection of a two-roomed building for an infants' school…

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Schools Column

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 11

This week two conferences of principals and school mistresses of Newcastle district schools are being held. Today's conference dealt with the "1951 seminar in Art Education" and "Art Education in the United…

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Talks On Teachers' Salaries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 2

The President of the New South Wales Teachers' Federation (Mr H. Heath) will give details of the Public Service…

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