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Schools, 1921

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Cinema As Art Teacher

The World's News · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 4

THE cinema is being used in Paris for the teaching of drawing at the School of Decorative Art. The students spend one afternoon each week watching cinema films, which…

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The Story of a Wayback School

The Methodist · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 6

Mr. George Woods, one of the bravest of our Sunday School pioneers, has gone to his reward. He fell asleep during the Festival of the Christ-child, and his obituary notice appeared in our…

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Our Great Public Schools. Some Distinctive Features. Two Pioneer Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 9

Private schools, including those associated with the various Churches, have always played an important part in the educational development of this State. For the first 60 years…

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Kogarah School Swimming Carnival

The St George Call · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 2

The Principal (Mr. W. T. Anderson), of Kogarah Commercial High School, announces that the twenty-fourth annual swimming carnival takes place at Sans…

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School Flappers in Smoking Cars

The St George Call · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 3

We have repeatedly called attention to the rush for seats in smoking cars on the Illawarra Line by school children. The nuisance is abated for a while until the…

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Teachers' Appointments "Gazette" Notification

The Sun · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 7

A notification appears in the "Government Gazette" of the appointment of the undermentioned teachers to the schools specified:--…

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Baas Hills School

The Sun · Saturday 12 February 1921 · page 5

A notification appears in the "Government Gazette" of the proposal to establish a public school at Bass Hills, Upper Bankstown…

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Making Education a Pastime Simplifying Lessons in Reading and Writing Making Lighter the Tasks of Teacher and Scholar

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1921 · page 18

The Jones System of Teaching Reading has lightened the lot of scholars and teachers in scores of schools in N.S. Wales. It is known also in Victoria and South Australia, and during the Christmas holidays teachers from those States came to Sydney to make personal…

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School Accommodation Conditions at Armidale ARMIDALE

The Sun · Sunday 13 February 1921 · page 4

The public school accommodation here is entirely inadequate, and the primary and secondary pupils are huddled together in a 80-year-old building…

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Australian Architecture the Girls' High School, Sydney

Construction and Local Government Journal · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 12

This building, erected on the old Zoo ject of much adverse criticism and agitatiable for that the site could be better, but [?]site for other purposes; and it was [?]…

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Young Athletes Sport in the Schools G.P.S. CRICKET

Evening News · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 2

Players at the Great Public Schools are se[?]ing down to cricket again, and good play is promised on February when the inter-school competition is resumed on February [?] The fixtures will…

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CHESS School of Arts Club

Evening News · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 6

The committee of the School of Arts Chess Club, Pitt-street, Sydney, having arranged details for a big tourney, eyen to all members, a large number of…

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Its Ninetieth Year The King's School's Birthday

Evening News · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 4

In a house in George-street, Parramatia-one of those four-square Georgian building so characteristic of the old town at the head of Port Jackson's…

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King's School 90th Anniversary

Evening News · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 8

The lawns and playing fields of the King's School Parramatta, were peopled by old boys and friends on Saturday, at the 90th anniversary commemoration…

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The King's School. Old Boys v Present School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 5

The principal event in connection with the annual commemoration of The King's School, Parramatta, on Saturday, was a cricket match between the Old Boys and the boys of the present school. The old boys…

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Mosman. Intermediate High School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 6

The Minister for Education (Mr. Mutch) has recently caused inquiries to be made into the question of meeting the educational needs of boys living on the northern side of the…

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Our Great Public Schools. Ii. Three Church Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 6

In the early days the courses of study in non-State schools were usually left to the discretion of headmasters. But in 1867 the Sydney University introduced its system of…

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King's School. Ninetieth Anniversary

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1921 · page 4

The annual commemoration and Old Boys' day, marking the ninetieth in its history, was celebrated on Saturday, when, at the Invitation of the council and the headmaster, many of…

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Our Great Second Ary Schools. Iii. Typical Catholic Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 8

The first Roman Catholic secondary school in Australia was held in a building adjacent to St. Mary's Cathedral. Opened in 1837 as "The Seminary," it served the double purpose…

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Canterbury School Sanitation and Health Department Criticised

The Sun · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 10

The delay of the Education Department in having the Canterbury Public School sewered was the subject of severe criticism at last night's meeting of…

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