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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1953

922 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 47

High School Fete Big Success

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1953 · page 4

Newcastle Boys' High School fete was well supported from its opening in the school grounds at 1.30 p.m…

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Schoolboys Showed Film

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1953 · page 3

Noel Cocking (left), of Mayfield, and Robert Grady, of Lambton, were projectionists for a film shown at Newcastle Boys' High Scholl fete yesterday afternoon…

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Teachers' Officers Re-elected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday. — Results of the election of administrative officers of the New South Wales Teachers'…

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School Reopened After 2 Years

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1953 · page 3

SINGLETON, Sunday. — The school at Putty has been reopened after being closed for nearly two years…

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Snake Danger In School Ground

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 April 1953 · page 1

Snakes are so numerous at East Wallsend School that the school children have been forbidden to…

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Strike Upset to School Classes

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 April 1953 · page 3

Secondary school attendances were severely affected by the bus strike and were in many cases down by nearly two-thirds of the total enrolment…

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£600 Taken At School Gala

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 April 1953 · page 10

The New Lambton School P. and C. Association expects a record profit from its gala day at the…

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League 'Behind in Schools'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 8

Rugby League was falling behind other codes in encouraging school players, the President of Newcastle Rugby League (Mr. F. Barker) said last night…

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School Day Lost "In Transit"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 4

Secondary school pupils were losing time equal to one school day a week because of unsatisfactory bus timetables,…

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Thousands Kept From Schools

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 3

As a result of the continued bus strike today thousands of children were absent from schools in the Newcastle district and others, in an endeavor not to miss the day's lessons,…

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School Shop And Hall 'Inadequate'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 6

Newcastle Boys' High School Parents and Citizens' Association decided last night to protest to the Minister for…

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Extra Trains For School Holidays

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Extra additional and altered train arrangements had been completed for the school…

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Schools Column

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 7

On Friday morning the Education Department will make a sound film of a re-enactment of the recent captain and committee elections at Junction Demonstration School for a newsreel. THE elections, which have…

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Around the Schools Anzac Celebrations To-morrow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 6

Anzac Day ceremonies will be held in schools at 11 a.m. to-morrow. No uniform practice has been laid down, but…

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Luxury Baccarat "School"

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY. —A luxurious bacarat school in Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay, where 46 people were…

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LETTERS To The Editor Teacher Trainees

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 2

IT WOULD do the Cahill Government good to study the Teachers' College trainees' appeal ("N.M.H..," 31/3/53)…

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Baccarat School 'Guarded'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 11

SYDNEY, Thursday. — A luxuriously furnished baccarat school in Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay, was bolted and…

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School Soccer Postponed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 11

All P.S.A.A.A. primary school soccer and Rugby League competitions to have begun this afternoon, and…

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Sunday School's Free Transport

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 3

Pupils of Mayfield Baptist Sunday School will have their usual free transport to their classes…

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School Anzac Services

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 4

Sixth-class pupils at several Newcastle schools, at their Anzac observances yesterday, heard themselves in the Anzac play 'The Man With the Donkey.'…

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