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Schools, 1939

3,286 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 165

School of Arts Fete

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 8

Part of a drive by member to raise funds for their institution, the fete held at the Guildford Memorial School of Arts at the week-end proved an…

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Hills District School of Arts — New Life

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 10

Dormant for the past few years, the School of Arts at Baulkham Hills is to have new life. Its reawakening as the centre of…

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Broadcasting Broadcasts to Schools. Australian Progress. 90,000 Children Listeners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 4

Broadcasts to schools are being developed in practically every country of the world. In Australia great strides have been taken recently. "The aim,"…

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Grafton High School. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 12

Grafton City Council has unanimously carried a motion that the Education Department be given notice that Grafton High School must be connected with the sewerage system within…

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Education Abroad Children in Class Schoolrooms

The Sun · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 28

"THE main difference I found between education in Australia and abroad was that much more money is spent on it in most…

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Had School in Yellow Bungalow

The Sun · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 28

MRS. ALLAN CLUNIES-ROSS, tutorial lecturer in pyschology at Sydney University, was a passenger on the Orford to-day. During…

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Portable Rooms at School

The Sun · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 3

The Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond said to-day that action was being taken to remove the cause…

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General News Lessons for Our Schools Director Tells of Progress Abroad Visual Aid In Learning

The Sun · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 2

Satisfied that the education system in vogue in New South Wales generally is abreast of those in other parts of the world, the Director of Education (Mr. G. Ross Thomas) returned to Sydney to-day by the…

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Schools Are "Unhealthy" Strong Protests From Country

Daily News · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 8

Grafton and Singleton are up in arms over the "dangerous and unhealthy" condition of school accommodation in their respective areas…

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Council's Last Word to Education Dept. Final Notice to Connect High School with Sewer Grafton

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 9

Grafton City Council last hight unanimously decided to give the Department of Education 30 days' final notice to connect Grafton High School with the sewerage system…

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Boarding School For Pilots

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 5

Australia's first "boarding school" for student pilots has been established at Macquarie Grove Aerodrome, Camden…

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Penrith School of Arts

Nepean Times · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 1

A team of billiards and snooker players visited Springwood on Monday evening and engaged the local School of Arts in a friendly match…

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Cricket "A" Grade Final Small Scoring by School of Arts Rain Again Shortens Play

Nepean Times · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 8

THE district competitions are being protracted by the curtailment of play on several days by rain, and once again on Saturday…

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Convent Schools' Debating Results of First Round

The Catholic Press · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 25

The results of the first round of the Convent Schools' Debating Competition, completed last week, are as follow: Senior Division: Subject, "The Vitality…

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Catholic School Paper

The Catholic Press · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 28

It is a rule in the Archdiocese that all Catholic Primary Schools must have the Catholic School paper as their official text book in Classes 3, 4, 5, and 6, during the…

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Victorian School Eights Prepare

Referee · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 17

MELBOURNE Grammar are the most advanced of the crews preparing on the Yarra for the annual Head of the River boat race of the…

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Teachers' Conference

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 22

The Teachers' Conference will be held on May 11, 12 and 13, 1939…

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Convent Schools' Debating Competition. Results of First Round

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 22

The results of the first round of the Convent Schools' Debuting Competition, completed last week, are as follows:— Senior Division…

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Winter School For Farmers. Hawkesbury Agricultural College

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 19

The Minister for Agriculture, Major the Hon. A. D. Reid, M.L.A., states that it is proposed to hold the usual Winter Schools at the Hawkesbury Agricultural…

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The Schools. Citizenship Training. Director's Message

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 3

'If our demociacy is to develop Into a living purposeful agency for a wider world democracy educational leaders and teachers must share in the…

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