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Sydney · Schools

Schools, 1925

4,313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 216

St. Thomas' High School. Students' Annual Concert

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 21

There was a crowded house at St. George's Hall, Newtown, on December 15 for the annual concert of the students of St. Thomas' High School, Lewisham…

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Manly Convent School Fancy Dress Ball

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 21

The Catholic Hall, Whistler-street, Manly, was the scene of a brilliant assemblage of juveniles on Wednesday, December 17, the occasion being the annual…

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Making Them Fit P. T. School at Barracks

The Sun · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 8

A special course of instruction in physical and recreational training will be held at the Central School of Physical Training, Victoria Barracks,…

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School World The Public Library Its Place in the Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 4

Mr. W. H. Hould. principal librarian and secretary of the Public Library has always taken a keen interest in literature for youth. Not long since…

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Our Earliest Schools Memories of 70 Years Ago Some Early Scholars

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 1

A recent article, dealing with the early schools of Parramatta, published in this journal has aroused considerable interest among both old and new hands of the…

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Dundas. Baptist Sunday School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 6

On Saturday, December 20, the scholars of Dundas Baptist Sunday School responded to an invitation from Father Christmas to meet him at their school at 3.30…

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Dundas Public School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 6

Recent correspondence in the columns of "The Argus," re "The Old School," lends to a reference to the school at Dundas, which is undoubtedly one of the…

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Boarding the Teacher Parents' Obligation Am Inequitable Levy

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 12

Morven enquires whether he can be compelled to contribute 4/ a week towards payment of the board of a subsidised school teacher, when only one…

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Subsidised Teacher. The Power to Dismiss

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 12

Henty inquires whether the parents of children attending a subsidised school are cuittled to dismiss the teacher theroof if she is…

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Evening Continuation School, Kogarah

The St George Call · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 2

As a result of the examinations held last October, in-connection with the Evening School Certificate of Proficiency, the undermentioned students of…

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Schools and Teachers First a Pupil And Now Headmaster Maitland's Chief

Evening News · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 7

Mr. C. H. Chrismas, headmaster of Dubbo High School, has been promoted to the charge of Maitland High School, where he was once a…

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A School-girl's Jumper

Evening News · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 8

This useful pattern is yours for a compon. It is a "Woman's Budget"…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, January 3, 1925. Music in the Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 12

An important issue regarding instruction in music in the Public schools has been raised in the series of articles published the last three Saturdays in the "Sydney…

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7000 to Learn Swimming Education Department's Scheme Teachers to Be Busy on

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 5

Monday will mark an e[?]ch in the lives of approximately 7000 children, this being the number enrolled in the Education Department's vacation swimming classes…

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Randwick Schooling

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 12

One of the best schooling exhibitions witnessed at Randwick, was given by Malltrain yesterday morning. He was accompanied by Old Grey (V. Heddrick), in a trial over half a…

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Jack Harkaway After Schooldays. the Story to Date

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 4

Jack and his friend, Dick Harvey, as soon as they have finished their schooling, ship as midshiphien aboard a sailing vessel. The first chapter dwelt with them going abroad. In…

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Artistic Air Memorial the School Holidays

Evening News · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10

ARTISTIC MEMORIAL STATUE—This remarkable silhouette photograph is of the memorial statue erected at Le Mans, France, in honor of Wilbur Wright, "father of the flying machines of to-day." The statue depicts man's appeal to Divine aid in his conquest of the air…

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Man Drops Dead on Arrest Following "Two -Up" Raid Police Swoop on "School"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 7

After being captured during a two-up" raid near Rosehill racecourse yesterday afternoon, a man, named John Holliday (48), of 67…

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High School for Gosford

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10

Mr. Walter Bennett, M.L.A., has been informed by the Minister for Education that plans are being prepared by the department for a new High school for Gosford…

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Cook's River Improvement Works Department's Big Job. Water Board and Sea-weed. Warning to Schools

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

No city community of any advanced country of the world would have tolerated for so long the offensive and generally neglected condition in which we…

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