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Sydney · Schools

Schools, 1912

3,355 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 168

Teeth and the Child. State Pupils' Dental Defects. Dental Association Work

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 11

A correspondent in a recent issue of "The Daily Telegraph," under the heading of "Children's Teeth," wrote to the effect that since the State of Queensland had recently appointed…

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The United Sunday School Union's Committee Teacher Training Lectures Planning and Giving Lessons

The Methodist · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 4

How often has the Superintendent's bell rung in upon a half or an unfinished lesson! How often has disappointment terminated a lesson session! How often has there been depression over time wasted or mis-spent, the…

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Penrith School of Arts

Nepean Times · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 4

The monthly committee meeting of the above institution was held on Wednesday night last, there being present- Messrs A E Baker (president) A H Fox, W Vences, Syd…

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Penrith Teachers' Association

Nepean Times · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 3

At the annual meeting of the Penrith District Teachers' Association, held in the Superior Public School, Penrith, (Mr Senior Inspector Wright…

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Runaway Schoolboy. Discovered in Scrub. Hungry and Shivering

Evening News · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 11

Charles V. S. Boden, the St. Joseph's College boy, who mysteriously disappeared last Monday while on his way to the college was discovered by two of St. Joseph's scholars, hiding in…

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Empire Day School Sports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 18

The Double Bay Superior Public School second annual Empire Day sports will be held at Double Bay Park on Saturday, Mar 25. A long programme has been arranged, which…

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Progress in School-building [?] School Hall, Tamworth

The Methodist · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 16

[?] the absence of the President and the [?] of the District, the opening [?] of the Jubilee Hall at Tamworth were [?] by the Rev. Fred. Colwell, of…

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A Message to the Sunday School Department

The Methodist · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 7

"As one who for a brief term was associated with [?] work of the Union, will you permit me to send you a [?] of earnest sympathy with your effort to give a great up lift to the Church's efforts to bless the young people of…

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The Home Department of the Sunday School

The Methodist · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 6

During all the years that Sunday Schools have been in operation, no systematic attempt has been made prior to the advent of the Home Department to reach those who would not, or could not, meet together to be taught…

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The New Sunday School Hymn Book

The Methodist · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 2

One of the means by which our Sunday Schools will be improved, and also made more attractive and efficient, is the use of the new Sunday School Hymn Book, which is a veritable gift of God to us just at the…

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The Grading of a Sunday School

The Methodist · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 5

"Decentralisation removes more hindrances to progress than any other single new principle that has been introduced into the Sunday School of recent times, and the day is not far distant when not only Beginners,…

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Holding the ROPES—The Sunday School an Auxiliary of Missions

The Methodist · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 13

Yes, it is an invaluable auxiliary, first on the financial side, Think of a sum like £1,740 being given or collected by our Methodist Sunday Schools in New South Wales in one year! Half of this amount comes to Home…

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The Story of a Wayback School Told by its Founder, Mr. George Woods

The Methodist · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 13

We commenced our Sunday School August 26th, 1894. We had just come from the Mallee district of Victoria, where God's people were alive. Class Meetings and Prayer Meetings flourished. We came from a Christian…

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"The Sunday School Flower Garden."

The Methodist · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 9

Up to the present, sixth-six schools have promised to send a boy and girl to take part in this beautiful display. What of the other fifty schools, in the Metropolitan…

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The Modern Sunday School

The Methodist · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 10

It will now be generally admitted that the most important agency of the Christian Church of to-day in the world's evangelisation and regeneration is the Sunday School. The opportunity it presents of winning the…

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School Training in America. It Should Be Vocational

The Sun · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 11

Mary Josephine Mayer writes in the American "Review of Reviews":-- "The end of education," someone has said, "is to secure the power of adjustment to the…

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School for Carlton

The Sun · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 6

The member for St. George has received the following communications from the department of Public Instruction:-- "With reference to the letter presented by…

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Schoolboy Suicides. Germany's Black List. Lads Driven to Death

The Sun · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 9

Eastertide in Germany (says Frederick Wile in the "Daily Mail") was marked again by the ever-recurring epidemic of schoolboy suicides. The Feast of the Resurrection is…

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Hungry and Cold. Missing Schoolboy Found. Five Days in the Bush

The Sun · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 6

The St. Joseph's boy, Charles V. S. Boden, who left his home at Paddington last Monday and failed to report himself at the school at Hunter's Hill, has turned up…

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The Teachers' Guild

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 11

At the Sydney Grammar School last night Mr. Purves, M.A., presided over a general meeting of the Teachers' Guild of New South Wales. The guild consists of teachers of secondary schools…

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