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Schools, 1909

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Pictures in Schools. (To the Editor.)

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 April 1909 · page 3

Sir,—The pictures you so kindly donated to the above school safely to hand, and for which please accept my best thanks. They are very fined indeed, and…

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The Trained Nurse. In Public Schools. Health and Education. Part Iv

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 11 April 1909 · page 7

The present article, though apparently a digression, is really apropos of the subject. It shows another means by which the mothers of the poorest children who attend public…

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A Trade for Every Child. Proposal to Raise the School Age

The Star · Monday 12 April 1909 · page 12

Drastic proposals for reducing the large number of children who enter unskilled occupations have been put forward by the Higher Education Committee of the London…

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A School Lane

The Star · Monday 12 April 1909 · page 1

At the last meeting of the Ryde Council reference was made to the bad state of the main entrance to the Ryde Superior Public School, which is through a narrow laneway…

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The Berey Dairy School

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 April 1909 · page 10

ALBION BARIC, Saturday.--At the Albion Park A.H. Society meeting Mr. John Brownlee said he thought this society should express an opinion regarding the Dairy Science School…

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A Dangerous School Lane

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 April 1909 · page 8

The Ryde Council bus for some considerable time past been endeavoring to secure financial assistance from the department towards the reconstruction of the main thoroughfare to the Ryde Superior Public School, known…

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New Public Works. Tenders Accepted. Additions to Newtown School

Evening News · Tuesday 13 April 1909 · page 8

Tenders were this morning accepted for the following public works:— Additions and alterations to public school buildings at Newtown, Brown and Moffatt,…

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Schools of the Empire. Prince of Wales' Cup Competition

Evening News · Tuesday 13 April 1909 · page 6

LONDON, Monday Evening.—In the Schools of the Empire riflo competition for the Prince of Wales' Cup, the Lawrence Millitary Asylum, India, was first, with a score of 516; Dover…

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Annual Examination of Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 April 1909 · page 3

The annual examination of teachers under the Department of Public Instruction will commence this morning at the Macleay Museum, Sydney University, and will be continued…

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Education. Interchange of Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 April 1909 · page 3

The movement made some few months back to establish an interchange of teachers between European countries and the Australian States is beginning to assume definite shape…

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Our Schools. At Work and at Play

The Star · Tuesday 13 April 1909 · page 4

We have arranged to publish each Tuesday special notes wider the above heading. It will assist us, and add to the interest of the column, if teach era and responsible scholars will toward notes of…

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The Female Teacher. a Dangerous Subject

Evening News · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 6

Throughout the length and breadth of the land arises the wall of the female teacher, who sees herself bereft of her Merry Widow hat, her frills and furbelows, her bangles, dangles,…

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Teachers' Examinations

Evening News · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 4

The annual examination og teachers, which are held each Easter by the Department of Public Instruction, commenced on Tuesday morning, at the Sydney University. They are being held…

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Physique of Our School Children

Evening News · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 4

The accompanying chart shows the combined heights and weights of teams of nine boys and nine girls from various parts of New South Wales. The teacher were composed of children of average height and weight for each year from 6 to 14 inclusive. The right hemisphere deals with boys, the left with girls, and the dotted lines indicate the average height and weight of all children measured throughout the State. The graph lines show that both in height and weight the girls, in the aggregate, are superior to the boys for the age period considered (from 6 years to 14). It was ascertained, however, that up to the age of 11½ years the height and weight of the boys slightly exceeded those of the girls, but…

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Empire Shooting Competition. Prince of Wales' Cup. Won by Indian School. London, April 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 9

The Lawrence Military Asylum, India, has won the Prince of Wales' Cup in the Schools of the Empire Shooting Competition, with a score of, 516. Dover was…

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Royal Show Number One of the Old School

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 1

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A Further Batch of Business Exhibits. Public Schools Exhibits

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 43

The display made by the Public schools attracted considerable attention. Mr. John Halsted. superintendent, of school agriculture, had the exhibits of the different schools…

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Manly School of Arts

The Star · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 9

The Minister for Public Instruction has approved of the plans for the erection of the new building for the Manly School of Arts Wentworth street. The contract…

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Continuation Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 12

The recent institution of continuation schools here makes the study of their operations elsewhere rather in interesting, and probably nowhere more than in Munich has greater development taken place. Continuation…

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The Schools. "H.m.s. Australia!"

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 12

A special meeting of the council of the Public Schools' Athletic Association was held last week to consider the suggestion to hold a combined schools' demonstration on Empire,Day, in aid of the Citizens' Dreadnought Fund…

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