Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Schools, all years

Sydney · Schools

Schools, 1948

1,885 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 95

The Old School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 24

The middle portion of Parramatta Primary School shown above was built in 1875, and is the oldest building, built as a school and still used as one, in the district…

Continued on Trove, page 24 →

Castle Hill School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 28

Castle Hill School, where attendances are steadily growing, has nearly reached the required enrolment to…

Continued on Trove, page 28 →

The Playing Fields of Parramatta School Sport Strength, Mind Combine

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 11

It is fitting that the district schoolboys and schoolgirls of to-day should have for their playing fields the vast expanses of Parramatta National Park, situated in the very heart of traditionally historic Parramatta…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Merrylands School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 28

The Minister for Education (Mr. R. J. Heffron) will lay the foundation stone of a new infants' building at…

Continued on Trove, page 28 →

SMITHFIELD 1st School in Inspectorate

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 30

Smithfield has the honour of being the location of the first public school established in the Parramatta…

Continued on Trove, page 30 →

Schoolmaster Abroad

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 7

The Schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust more to him, armed with his primer, than I do the…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Wentworthville Public Schools Show Growth

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 29

Wentworthville Primary School: Children lined up outside a wing of the school. Total attendance of boys and girls in 4th, 5th and 6th classes is 300…

Continued on Trove, page 29 →

Nearly a Million at Government Schools

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 29

Figures for the 1947 census are not available in detail, but in the 1933 census, it was found that throughout…

Continued on Trove, page 29 →

New Joint Appointment Will Be Help to Schools

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 15

The appointment of Mr. P. Hindmarsh as staff inspector of agriculture and rural education is expected to…

Continued on Trove, page 15 →

Carlingford Has a Busy Rural School Tomorrow's Farmers Outdoor Studies Popular

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 15

One of the most interesting centres of secondary education near Parramatta is Carlingford District Rural School, the only one of its kind within 25 miles of Sydney…

Continued on Trove, page 15 →

Manual Training and Technical Rural Schools Hands As Well As Heads

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 16

Craftwork in the schools starts with the kindergarten proceeds naturally to wider fields in the primary school and in the secondary schools (where some form of the work is…

Continued on Trove, page 16 →

Music in High Schools

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 32

Music is an international language, and of the finer arts, it has the most universal appeal. In schools, it deserves equal…

Continued on Trove, page 32 →

Glimpse of North Rocks School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 32

Youth is the time for beginnings. The storehouse of life stands wide open, for the treasures to be garnered therein.—(E. GARRETT)…

Continued on Trove, page 32 →

Have You Thought of Employment? Parents and Citizens' Partnership in School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 19

Chiefs of the Education Department and individual teachers, always pay sincere tribute to the voluntary organisations associated with their work…

Continued on Trove, page 19 →

Oldest School Building Is in Parramatta Humble Beginning Story of Earliest Classrooms

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 12

In the following article, especially written for the "Argus" by the well-known authority on our early history, Mr. James Jervis, is told how Australia's first…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Parramatta High School (Continued from Page 1)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 32

However, the "P.H.S." was able to select from its numbers in 1946 a cricket team strong enough to win…

Continued on Trove, page 32 →

Guildford School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 32

In contrast to many other schools, Guildford Public School has had a constant enrolment—about 620—for the past 15…

Continued on Trove, page 32 →

Gifts by N.s.w. Teachers Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 1

LONDON, April 13.—The N.S.W. Agent-General, Mr. Tully, to-night presented to the League of the Empire three…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Two Schools Visited Helen Keller At Wahroonga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 3

Miss Helen Keller, famous blind and deaf American, spent yesterday with the blind and deaf…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

News In Brief Mayor Left His Mark Going Back To Old School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.— Forty years ago the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Alderman Quinlan, left his mark in…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →