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Schools, 1953

2,950 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 148

150,000 can't read well even after U.K. schooling

The Sun · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.-- Of every 500,000 five-year-old children who began schooling each year 150,000 will leave school unable to read properly…

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Gale Blows School Away

The Sun · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 3

REYK JAVIK (Iceland), Friday--An Arctic gale today plucked a wooden school for 40…

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Search for missing schoolboy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 9

Police are searching for a 12-years-old boy who has been missing from his home at…

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Schools' Games G.p.S. Grammar v Scots

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 1 March 1953 · page 7

GRAMMAR.—First Innings: B Williams. 1: J. Walker. 3, B Stubbs 7; T. Gould, 3; F. Niesche, 1; A. Munro, 48; G. Vicars, 2; G. White, 16; M…

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Two-point Plan to Boost Falling Sales School milk in four flavors

The Sun · Sunday 1 March 1953 · page 14

THE NSW Milk Board proposes to introduce two schemes to increase milk sales. Flavoring of some…

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School Order Irks Parents

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 March 1953 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Mon.--Parents of primary schoolchildren at Allworth, a small farming township north of Raymond Terrace, have staged a two-day strike against a departmental…

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School Carnival

The Sun · Tuesday 3 March 1953 · page 40

Annual swimming carnival of the Associated Schools will be held at North Sydney 'Pool on…

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Spastic School Appeal Past £7,000 Mark

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 3

An Afternoon Fete, followed by a dance in the evening at Greystanes Hall, added approximately £ 140 to the funds of Greystanes Progress…

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Citizens Will Erect School Shelter Shed

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 1

A call for volunteers has been issued by Parramatta-west P. & C. Association, for erection of a bus shelter…

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Film Projector For High School

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 10

A modern film projector, squipped for sound, will be used shortly at Parramatta High School as an aid to…

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School for Spastics. Merrylands Auxiliary

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 3

As the time approaches for the declaration of Miss Merrylands the various committees are all working hard to increase the…

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Criticised School Book Not Approved

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 5

The Minister for Education, Mr. R. J. Heffron, said yesterday that a book entitled "Social Studies…

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Economy in School Design

Construction · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 9

With high building costs the search is ever keen for new methods of construction that can achieve the requirements of the project at a lesser cost than the traditional methods. We illustrate a method evolved in America for economic school construction using rigid-steel frames at eight-foot centres and designed with rigid beam-to-column connections to take advantage…

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Rose of combined schools' carnival

The Sun · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 30

NSW age champion Murray Rose (14), will compete in open freestyle events for Cranbrook at…

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Liberal M.L.A. Hits Bach On School Text Book

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 4

At least 50 per cent of the parents N.S.W. did not want their children to regard Labor politicians as the only people who had done good for Australia in the past 30 years, Mr. Darby (Lib., Manly) said today…

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Liberal M.L.A. Hits Back On School Text Book

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 4

At least 50 per cent of the parents in N.S.W. did not want their children to regard Labor politicians as the only people who had done good for Australia in the past 30 years, Mr. Darby (Lib., Manly) said today…

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A free hot meal is part of the curriculum at: The Most Cosmopolitan School In Sydney

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 2

IMAGINE a school in the industrial heart of Sydney, almost within the shadow of St. Mary's Cathedral, with children of a dozen nationalities and Australians less than 15 per cent, where a two-course hot meal is provided free to every child daily, where every thing is free to those who cannot pay, whose buildings are as bright and colorful as their…

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Brides Must Leave School In Texas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 7

SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD brides who stayed at school after they were married caused so many problems in Texas high schools that school authorities had decided to ban married pupils, said Mrs. J. F. Lynam,…

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Marist Brothers High School Kogarah

The St George Call · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 1

Despite a severe storm on the second night the school swimming carnivals were successfully staged at Ramsgate Baths on Thursday and…

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Swimming Schoolboy's Ambitions

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 39

Fourteen - years - old Ted Smith (right), who taught himself to swim is expected to star in the…

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