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Schools, 1927

4,194 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 210

Fort Street School To-morrow's Carnival

Evening News · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 10

Fort-street will held its 36th annual swimming carnival at the Domain Baths to-morrow afternoon. The finals of all championship events will be swum…

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Swimming. Sydney Grammar School. Championship Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 14

Sydney Grammar School's 31st annual swimming carnival will be held at the Domain Baths on Friday next. The carnival is of interest to the G.P.S. in general. and Sydney…

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Novel Farewell. Choir of School Children

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 11

The departure from Sydney of the Duke and Duchess of York will be made memorable. It has been proposed to the executive…

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Wireless & Radio Radio in Schools New Phase of Edecation

The Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 8

Another field for learning has been opened by broadcasting. The day is coming when radio will carry to Australian schools the lectures of great men. Wireless in Great Britain has been…

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Sporting News Continued School Sport Team for Queensland Outstanding Players

The Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 6

The selectors finished their task of choosing teams to visit Queensland and Victoria hist Saturday. The former team, which leaves to-morrow at 2 p.m., in charge of…

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For the School Championship

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 5

The start of the 16 years and over 50 yards' championship, at Fort Street Girls' High School carnival, at Googee Aquarium yesterday. The competitors were: C. Kennedy (winner), J. Balmain, M. Moore and B. Hart…

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General Notes Inadequate Funds for Technical Schools

Construction and Local Government Journal · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 8

Mr. James Nangle, Superintendent of Sydney Technical College, is alarmed because for the year just beginning, there are 1500 applications from would-be students over and…

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School Sport Football Gossip N.s.w. Side for South

Evening News · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 2

AT THE MATCH meeting of the P.S.A.A.A. Counsel the [?] of the de[?]rations of the Australian Football Conference in [?] last…

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N.S. Wales Athletic Championships James Carlton, Champion Schoolboy, Wins 100Yds in Great Finish Seven Titles Retained : A Queensland Victory : Severe Thunderstorm Causes Wash-out

Referee · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 9

Commenced at Manly Oval on Saturday afternoon in dull and sultry weather, the first section of the State track and field…

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The Schools in Sport High Standard Cricket in Sydney and Melbourne Swimmers in Their Element

Referee · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 14

This season may see all Sydney G.P.S. record batting and bowling feats shattered. B. Goddard is scoring runs phenomenally for Shore his latest being 164…

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Hockey in the Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 19

An effort will be made by the New South Wales Hockey Association to introduce the game this year into the Public schools. It is proposed later to bring the matter under the notice of the Public Schools…

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Sydney Boys' High School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 11

The work of erecting the Sydney Boys' High School at Moore Park is being proceeded with. The foundation-stone of this building was laid on Saturday last by the Minister for…

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The School Mistress of Red Rock Mountain

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 16

ELIZABETH PORTER chalked a sentence on the blackboard, and sighed at the incompatibility of a small boy. For a month she had written a similar phrase on the school blackboard every…

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Women's World A Girls Land Experiences Ever since my early childhood I have longed for a life of action and adventure. The opportunity to realise that for which I longed came to me soon after I left school

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 31

STARTING my land experience at a botanical nursery, where I learned to handle seedlings. I went to a dairy farm at Quirindi, N.S.W., to…

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For the School Girl "Labor Daily" Pattern Service

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 7

A straight down frock with fulness over the hips and a contrast band around the base. Set-in sleeves are gathered into…

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Dignified Design Sydney Boys' High School New Building

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 4

This building occupies a portion of the old Zoo site, facing north, and overlooking the playing fields of Moore Park, and is situated midway between Anzac Parade and Cleveland…

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Prize Winners, Pupils of the Good Samaritan Convent, Wollongong

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 29

KATHLEEN RYAN, Winner of the Hallewell Commemoration Gold Medal for highest marks in Advanced Higher Grade, Singing…

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School Teachers New Appointments Latest Transfers

Evening News · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 10

The following transfers and appointments of teachers have been approved by the Director of Education:— TEACHERS…

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The Primary Schools. the Teaching of History

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 15

For the successful teaching of history several qualifications are necessary, the chief of which is certainly sympathy. This may seem strange to anyone who has not…

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New School at Earlwood: Opened by the Archbishop

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 19

On Sunday afternoon, before a large attendance, his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney blessed and opened the new Our Lady of Lourdes…

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