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Schools, 1928

3,867 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 194

The Sunday School Our Boys and Girls

The Methodist · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 8

My Dear. Boys and Girls,—During the holidays I had a fellow chopping and lopping trees for me. He was a first-class, bushman, and had once won the chopping competition of the South Coast. Every-…

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Teaching Religion. In Church, Home, and School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 11

Some time ago I vas permitted by the editor of this journal to net forth "The Religion of a Layman." Letters received from various readers of the article seemed to indicate that…

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Cricket. Great Public Schools' Fixtures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 21

The draw for the first half of the 1928 Great Public Schools' cricket competition is as follows:- February 18.—New[?]ington College v St. Joseph's College, Stanmore; Sydney Church of England Grammar…

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"A Little Grey School." Gay Memories

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 13

Memory flutters a-down the years to the little bush school I called my first—memories pleasant, memories humorous, memories sad. A quaint little grey slab school set down…

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Camp School Tent Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 6

The disgraceful state of the school at No. 3 camp, which was exposed in the "Labor Daily" last Tuesday, has had the attention of Mr. W. Davies…

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Religious Notes and News Parents Erect a Sunday School

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 10

There was no Sunday School for children in a neighborhood of Peakhurst, and the need for one so strongly appealed to some of the parents that they…

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Sex Counts Less Than Skill and Personality Male Teachers Not Easily Imposed on by the Girls "The Refining Influence"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 7

The assertion of Mr. P. Nickson, an English teacher, that mixed classes in schools do not work is not supported by inspectors of the…

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Can Women Teachers Manage Boys? -- Big 'Plane for Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 12

"WOMEN TEACHERS should not be in charge of boys," a visiting English school-master declares. -- Bourke Street boys under Miss Graham (see news columns). A REALISTIC SCENE in the new British war film, "Victory,"…

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Schoolboy Made Model Cars

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 February 1928 · page 33

Winning Studebaker models in a Model Car Competition (or School-boys, recently held in U.S.A. The competitors had to make the models without adult assistance…

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Actresses Are Made at St. John's School Darlinghurst Fine Exam, Record

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 February 1928 · page 16

Claiming to have been the nursery of more theatrical stars than any other school in Sydney, besides sending more than its quota into all the professions, the Church and the Army, St. John's Parochial School,…

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Oppressed Bachelors Learning to Cook Trained Woman Teacher

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1928 · page 2

IN this age of home rule, freedom, liberty, and equality, now that hobbles, shackles, and handcuffs have been shed by so many of the…

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Nursery Schools Rachael McMillan's Work Newer Kindergartens

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1928 · page 6

WHEN they were first introduced, Dr. Montessori's methods for teaching young children were hailed with delight by educationists. Her…

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Schoolboy Howlers

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1928 · page 2

"The hole at the top of a volcano, out of which the lather comes, is called the creator." "The Pyramids are a range of mountains separating France from Spain."…

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[?] Racing Blue. Jim Jumps Randwick Schooling Quondong Again

Evening News · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 2

BLUR JIM., the grey jumper in R. Longford's Randwick stable shows much promiss in his schooling afferts at beadquarters. This…

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Teachers Angry. Insufficient Pay. for Compiling Endowment Returns

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 February 1928 · page 12

When arrangements were made for the administration of the Child Endowment Act it was decided to pay teachers, who acted as deputy commissioners, at the rate of time and…

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School Teacher Charged Illegal Drugs Case Orange

The Sun · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 15

Ernest Richard Bakes, school teacher (24), of Bangaroo, in the Canowlndra district, was charged at the Orange Sessions to-day with supplying…

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Not Forgotten West Auburn School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 4

The Minister for Education has informed the Auburn West Progress Association that the Department is still considering the question of establishing…

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£5000 for New School Cabramatta's Progress

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 4

Cabramatta Parents and Citizens' Association has been informed that the Education Department has decided to build a new public school in that town…

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The Letter Bag a School—hour System on the Railways Business Hel'd Up Story of Mismanagement] To the Editor

Evening News · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 8

SIR,—I was loading a truck for the country, and arrived at the Railway goods yard with the last load at 2 minutes past 4.30 p.m. I was met at the sate by a porter. He informed us it was…

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High School Sport

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 15

Mr. O. S. Smith (North Sydney) has been re-elected chairman of the High Schools' Sports Committee, and Mr. L. Hepburn (Neutral Bay) was appointed vice-chairman. The cricket committee is Messrs. B…

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