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Schools, 1947

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Back-to-School Week St. Marys Movement

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 1

AT a public meeting held in the Mechanics Institute, St. Marys, It was decided to hold a "Backto-School Week," from July 7 to…

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EDUCATION Teachers' Conference

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 9

Problems ranging all the way from whether arithmetic or reading should be taught first in primary grades, to the part that…

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New Additions To School For Blind

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 6

Additions to St. Lucy's School for tho Blind at Homebush, will be opened next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Vicar-General…

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Annual Picnic Presbterian Sunday School

The Biz · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 3

A very delightful bus trip was only one part of the annual picnic of Liverpool Fresbyterian Sunday School, which [?]ook place on Anzac Day. over 60G…

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Anzac Day at School

The Biz · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 2

Anzac Day was commemorated in the usual manner by Guildford Public School children, when, at the close of the day on Thursday, they marched en [?]asse to…

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Not Swim-minded Granville Schools

The Biz · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 9

"Not swim-minded," said Ald. Godfrey, when the baths managers report was received at meeting of the Granville Council on 22nd April. During the season…

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Agric. High School For Forbes District

The Land · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 10

ASHBURNAM District Council of the F.S.A. is pressing for the early establishment of an Agricultural Hiqh School on "Carrowobitty" Station in the…

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Repeal Married Teachers Act

Tribune · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 6

THE Australian Communist Party fully supports the demand of the NSW Teachers’ Federation for repeal of the Married Women Teachers and…

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Hebrew in Bulgarian Jewish Schools

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 4

The major part of the curriculum in Bulgarian Jewish schools will be taught in Hebrew under a new plan for the education of…

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United Youth Leaders' and Teachers' Training Course

The Methodist · Saturday 3 May 1947 · page 7

The United Youth Leaders' and Teachers' Training Course will commence on Wednesday, 7th May, at 6.5 p.m. in the basement of the Presbyterian Assembly building. The course will be…

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Old Collar And Tie School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1947 · page 9

LORD NUFFIELD recently traduced the tweedy raiment in which Australian men endure the summer, and a Federal…

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Undoing the Old School Ties

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 May 1947 · page 28

THEY say our school curriculums are out of date. Yes! Yes! We know the plural should really be curricula. Haven't we all heard the famous Neapolitan song: "Curricula-curriculee." That'll learn 'em. So…

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Bad school lighting damages minds

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 May 1947 · page 14

CABLED this week from New York is news about a "dream school" in Pittsburgh, completed last…

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Italy's Surplus Teachers—and Illiterates

Truth · Sunday 4 May 1947 · page 32

ITALY, with one of the highest illiteracy rates in Europe, also has 100,000 unemployed schoolteachers. Before the war 19 per cent. of Italy's…

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BRITAIN The duke who went to night school

The Sun · Sunday 4 May 1947 · page 3

Gerald Wellesley, seventh Duke of "Wellington, is probably the only Duke in Britain who has been to night school…

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School Extensions Parkes

The Sun · Sunday 4 May 1947 · page 9

Funds for the erection of a new wing at the Parkes high school and additional classrooms at the infants' school had…

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Atomic Energy School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 May 1947 · page 3

LONDON, May 4 (A.A.P.).— The Ministry of Supply announced yesterday the opening, in August, of an atomic energy training school…

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Schoolboy Killed Tragedy Seen By Mates Hit by Truck at Homebush

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 May 1947 · page 6

IN view of several schoolmates, a six-years-old boy was killed when struck by a truck outside Homebush Infants' School, The Crescent, Homebush, today…

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Schoolboy Killed Tragedy Seen By Mates Hit by Truck at Homebush

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 May 1947 · page 6

IN view of several schoolmates, a six-years-old boy was killed when struck by a truck outside Homebush Infants' School, The Crescent, Homebush, today…

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Boy of Six Killed Outside School

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 May 1947 · page 6

IN view of several schoolmates, a six-years-old boy was killed when struck by a truck outside Homebush Infants' School, The. Crescent, Homebush, today. THE boy, Clarence George Tranter…

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