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Schools, 1939

3,286 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 165

Air School at Tempe Is Planned

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 2

An aviation high school on the banks of Shea's Creek, Tempe, will be considered by the special…

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Overcrowded and Dirty High Schools Casino

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 7

Casino Inter. High School is so overcrowded that the Education Department has rented the nearby municipal band practice hall as a…

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Bomb Wanted Teacher Suggests Blow Up Sehobl

Daily News · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 1

MAITLAND, Tues.--I am a Digger and I lived in some queer filthy places, but I have never before had to teach in such rotten conditions."…

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Teachers To Test Primary Children

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 7

Five new school counsellors have been drafted to the State's educational guidance scheme. The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) announced this last…

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The Schools. Many More Graduate Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 4

During the past five years, the number of teachers with University degrees in the Education Department's service has increased from 1,443 to…

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Public School

Nepean Times · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 2

The local public school re-opened on Tuesday of last week. There has been no change in the staff. We regret to report that Miss Gate's…

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First School Term. Protective Foods

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 4

After the holidays, many children will be going to school for the first time. These toddlers, who are saying good-bye to babyhood, need especial care at, this…

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The Primary Schools. Our Industries

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 10

The varieties of wheat are not so numerous as those of rice, of which there are about 5000 different kinds; but all the same, there are many varieties, and wheats…

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Notice to Teachers

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 28

There will be a meeting of all teachers at St. Mary's Cathedral Chapter Hall, on Saturday, February 11, at 10.30 a.m…

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Sacred Heart, Darlinghurst. 1880-1939. Opening of Reconstructed School Building

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 19

On the corner of Darlinghurst-road, racing the busy stream of traffic coming up Oxfrd-street from the city, stands the Sacred Heart Church. There it stands, a reminder…

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High Schools Cricket Fourth Grader Makes 201

Referee · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 23

A SYDNEY HIGH SCHOOL fourth grader overshadowed any first grader in the first round of the High School cricket competition yesterday…

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Catholic Primary Schools

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 26

A meeting for teachers will be held in St. Mary's Cathedral Chapter Hall on Saturday. February 11, at 10.30 a.m…

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The Lay Apostolate. Canberra Summer School on "Social Services" in Australia

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 38

The Australian Institute of Political Science holds a Summer School each year at Canberra at the Anniversary week-end. This year the theme chosen…

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Catholic Catechists' Guild. Second Annual Summer School: an Unique Apostolate

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 32

The Catholic Catechists' Guild within the Sydney Archdiocese, met on Saturday, February 4, in the hall of Sancta Sophia College, Sydney University. A…

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under the Library Lamp School Magazines

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 34

This is the season of school magazines, and very welcome they are. "The moving finger writes," time passes, and many of us look back to those…

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"No Man's Land" Tn Education. The Pre-school Child. Prom a Special Correspondent. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 24

AN organisation with an extraordinarily weighty name, the Australian Association for Pre-School Child Development, met at Melbourne…

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"Beauty Not Essential." Cinesound Talent School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 27

AN excellent response has been made to the launching of the new Cinesound Talent School, which will cover a complete course for the training of men and women in movie…

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Baronet Is Still a Teacher

The Sun · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 3

Sir William Alan Fairlie Cunningham, 15th baronet of Robertlands, Ayrshire, was to-day teaching at St…

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School Nature Films. Taken at Gunnamatta Bay

The Propeller · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 4

A grant of over £1000, which has been made available to the Australian Museum by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for expenditure on an…

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Hurstville Evening School. Police Force Examination

The Propeller · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 8

The Hurstville Evening Continuation School, which re-opens on Mon- day, 27th inst., will have a class in operation preparing candidates for…

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