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Schools, 1931

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The Primary Schools. Work in Arithmetic

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 13

Now that we have started our work for the year, we shall have to determine how best we can get through our plan in mathematics so as to give our pupils that solid…

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Notes of the Week. Political and Otherwise. Catholic Schools at the Intermediate

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 25

In our issue of January 22 an article was published on the recent Intermediate Examination, in which the following statement appeared. "Each year sees a more…

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O.L.S.H. Convent School, Bellingen. the Year's Achievements

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 37

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Convent, Bellingen, has just closed a year of outstanding success. There has not been a single failure with any…

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Great Jump Ex-High School Boy's Feat Best for 34 YEARS

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 6

Adrian Button, who a couple of years back was champion athlete of Parramatta High School, scored a triumph on Saturday…

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Schoolboy Still Winning Young M'Grath's Fine Performance Clever Tactics

Evening News · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 2

V. M'GRATH, the 14-rears-old schoolboy, won the Special Singles of the N.S.W. Championship Tourney yesterday. beating…

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Amazing Escapes From Death School Children's Luck IN 2 Centres Wellington. N.Z

Evening News · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 1

EXTRAORDINARY case, of wholesale escapes are reported from Napier South Boys' High School, and also…

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Topics Our Catholic Schools and the Intermediate

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 24

IT has been suggested in some quarters that our Catholic schools did not particularly distinguish themselves at the recent Intermediate examinations…

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The Schools. State High Schools. Filling the Vacancies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 5

The corridors of the second floor of the Education Department have been thronged during the last few days by parents who are anxious to have their children enrolled as…

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A Back-to-school Party

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 16

BACK-TO-SCHOOL parties have been the order of the week, and Mrs. E. Quayle acted as hostess for her sixteen-year-old son, John,…

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Docile Exiles at the Zoo High Jinks at High School Insurance Tennis

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 10

LEARNING her lesson at Taronga Park, so that the kiddies may have holiday rides…

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Free Text Books to School Pupils

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 12

REPLYING in the Legislative Assembly yesterday to a question by Mr. P. Connolly (Lab. Newcastle), the…

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Pupils' Concert. Successful Bexley Function

The Propeller · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 1

At the close of the year a successful and entertaining elocutionary evening was recently given by the pupils of Miss Edith D. Baker, A.T.C.L., in…

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Timely Offer for the Schoolboy

The Land · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 3

Timely Offer for the School Boy—10 Boys' Genuine Doctor Flannel Blazers, well cut and neatly finished, corded in shades of royal, gold red,…

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Passes to High School

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 5

We noticed the following among the successful scholars and will be glad to have others pointed out to us:— Fort Street Girls' High…

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St. George Girls’ High School Additional .Accommodation Desired

The St George Call · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 6

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Mark Gosling, M.L.A, recently took up with his colleague, the Minister for Education, the question of improving the…

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St. George High School

The Propeller · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 1

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Mark Gosling, M.L.A., recently took up with his colleague, the Minister for Education, the question of improving the…

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The School Bell Rings Again

The Propeller · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 6

"Ting-a-ling-a-ling!" and the holidays were over. Tuesday broke grey and gloomy, there wasn't a glimmer in the sky above, not a ray of…

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Transfer of Teachers

The Propeller · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 4

The Education Department notifies the following appointments and transfer of teachers in connection with local schools:--Mr. F. Higgins, Penshurst to…

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Spreading Cheer School, Boys' Band to Visit Home

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 12

UNDER the auspices of the Child Welfare Department, the Forest Lodge and Glebe School Boys' Band will give a programme of classical and…

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Threat Against Teachers

Daily Pictorial · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 6

Mr. Davies's threat to force teachers to become unionists would be taken less seriously were such a statement not made by a responsible…

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