December 2016
Primary School Teachers 1950s
MARGARETLike everyone else I started school in “Bubs”, aged five. The baby boom was in full swing and there must have been…
Teaching
Teaching practice and educational work.
November 2015
First Year Teaching 1909
These children, photographed in 1910, are writing on slates with chalk, as did the children in our grandfather Alf's classroom in 1909.…
October 2015
First Year Teaching
Teaching was an obvious, perhaps the only, choice for us to study after Matriculation (Year12). The Commonwealth Government provided scholarships to cover…