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Schools, 1950

2,603 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 131

Teachers Urge £100m Grant

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 3

HOBART, Thursday. — An Australian Teachers' Federation conference at Hobart to-day urged the Commonwealth…

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Bursaries Awarded for High Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 4

The Bursary Endowment Board has awarded bursaries admitting to secondary courses of Instruction the following pupils, subject to the fulfilment of prescribed conditions…

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St. Geo. District Spastic School

The St George Call · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 12

This year will be a memorial one for the school, as before very long now our foundation stone will be laid, thus bringing to a bend years…

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Carlton School

The St George Call · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 12

Mr. Clive Evatt, M.L.A. for Hurstville (Minister for Housing) announced this week that work would he put in hand within the next few…

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[?]Ogarah Inter High School [?]Rmer Students Achieve [?]E in the Field of Sport

The St George Call · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 9

Rosewall. [?]e achievements of Ken Rosewall [?]ennis undoubtedly mark him as [?]est player for his age that the…

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The Flag of Jerusalem Awarded to School Children

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 4

The Jewish National Fund’s Flag of Jerusalem changed hands during Succoth week in a brief, colourful ceremony in the court)…

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School Warning

Tribune · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON.—A committee set up by the National Union of Teachers has warned that the “situation in Britain’s infant schools to-day is…

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New Aid in School Broadcasts

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 3

The first of its kind in Australia, a radio workshop for the development of school broadcast…

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New Aid in School Broadcasts

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 3

The first of its kind in Australia, a radio workshop for the development of school broadcast…

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Schoolgirl Diver May Represent Australia

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 1

To be able to dive from a 30ft. tower and to do it [?] well that she was placed in two Australian championships after less than fear months' tuition, is the rare feat of 14-year-old Pam Hopkins, of Epping. PAM, a student of Meriden Church of England Girls'…

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U.K. teacher's advanced views on education

The Sun · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 13

A CHILD'S social adjustment must be made in the nursery schools and parents are gradually being educated to realise this, said Dr. Alice Paterson, MA., Ed. B. Ph. D, who arrived in the Orcades today…

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Vandals damage 2 schools

The Sun · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 7

Damage estimated at more than £600 has been caused at Riverstone and Quaker's Hill…

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SUN Readers Say Schoolboy's cheers

The Sun · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 11

Three cheers for "Zephyr," I have seen many boys who go to private schools tidily dressed in khaki shorts and shirt, and all…

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Schoolmaster Got Detention

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

ROME, Monday. -- Two hundred schoolboys at Bari are to be "kept in" for two hours at school every day…

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Praise for U.K. schools

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 4

Headmasters of two Sydney Public Schools yesterday described British Public Schools as the…

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Many Mourn Well-Loved Schoolmaster

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

Mr. Walter James Meyer, (58), headmaster of Tudor House, Moss Vale, since it was acquired by the King's School…

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Schools' Ferguson Cup

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

At last meeting of Holroyd Council, it was moved as the motion by Ald. McLeenan. seconded by Ald. L. Young, that the schools within the municipality be…

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Improving School Broadcasts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 3

The A.B.C. yesterday held the first of a series of experiments to improve the sound of children's…

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Teacher is candidate

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 7

Mr. John Clark Adamson, 39, schoolteacher at Rozelle Junior Technical School, will be the…

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Teacher Chosen

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 9

A schoolteacher, Mr. John Clark Adamson (39) was chosen last night to be the Liberal Party candidate in the Concord by…

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