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, 1951

2,110 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 106

Fijian teacher for nomads

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 7

Fijian missionary Penaia Motoni-cocoka Sati, 25, left for Darwin last night to teach aborigines to love…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Council Seeks 5-Year Lease On School Land

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 1

Parramatta City Council will ask the King's School for a five-year lease on land which the school owns at East…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Schoolboys agreed that we'd “buffer vote NO”

Tribune · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 4

AS I was coming to work the other morning I saw about twelve young schoolboys, looking at a white-washed sign on the footpath…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

School strike: 120 stay away

The Sun · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--Only 18 of 138 children involved in a strike called last night by…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

High School Chess

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 3

There has been a marked improvement in the standard of play among the High School pupils during second term, and…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Secondary School at Werrington District's Great Need

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

PENRITH High School P. and C. Association resolved on Tuesday evening to urge the Department of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Penrith School of Arts Chess Club

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

Attendance at the Penrith Chess Club was a record last Friday night, when 16 players were present. The club was…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

School Historical Excursions Old Regentville Visited

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 2

The last historical excursion of Penrith Public School for this year was held on Saturday, August 4. A party of school…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Cranebrook P. and C.A. Free Milk for School

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

On Tuesday, August 7, Cranebrook Parents and Citizens' Association held its usual monthly meeting in Cranebrook School…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Penrith School of Arts Election of Committee

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

The adjourned annual meeting of Penrith School of Arts was held at the institution on Thursday evening to receive the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Penrith High School Students Build Own Scenery

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 4

During the past few weeks a tenm of junior and senior dramatic technicians, working under the direction of Messrs…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

School Vacation

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 2

Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of Sydney will close for the end-of-term Vacation to-day…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Teachers' Federation Aims to Control All Education Danger seen if communists win influence

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

A BRAZEN and spectacular attempt is being made by the communistdominated N.S.W. Teachers' Federation to control all education in this…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Secondary Schools' Basketball Finals

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 9

FINALS of the Catholic Girls' Secondary Schools' basketball competition were held at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Rose Bay, last Saturday, after a successful season in which 45…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Old Cathedral To Be School

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 8

WORK has begun on reconversion of the old Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Cathedral-street, Maitland, to provide additional class rooms for the students of St. John's Boys' School…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

WILCANNIA-FORBES Foundation-Stone Of New School Laid

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 10

His Lordship Bishop Fox recently blessed and laid, the foundation-stone of the new technical school at the…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Broadway School Ball

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 8

ABOUT 360 dancers attended St. Benedict's (Broadway) Marist Brothers' Fifth Annual…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Parents Call School "Strike"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 15

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—Parents kept about 120 children away from Jesmond School to-day…

Continued on Trove, page 15 →

Interest Of East In Australian Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Families in countries north of Australia, particularly Indonesia, Saigon,…

Continued on Trove, page 14 →

Ex-teacher on assault charges

The Sun · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 3

James Kilpatrick Jamieson, 66, a retired schoolteacher, of Girraween Rd., Girraween, was…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →