| BACK HOME SCHOOLS OF BROKEN HILL AND THE DISTRICT 1886: State primary school located in the central area, opened in December, with J. M. Boyle as teacher in charge. Public School from 1886 - 1893. Superior School from 1893-1905. District school from 1906 - 1919. Junior Technical School and Home Science School from 1920-1934. Public School from 1935 to this present day. Alma Public School opened in January 1889-to this present day. Broken Hill Evening; Evening Continuation School 1911-1914, 1927-1931. Broken Hill High School 1920 to this present day. 1890: Mr Farquhar Wallace was the first teacher at the North Broken Hill School which opened in January 1890 public school until 1895; Superior Public School 1895-1918. Home science school 1919-1926; commercial school 1919-1934; became a public school again in 1935 to this present day. Broken Hill North Evening Public School 1890-1891, 1907-1911. Evening Continuation School 1913-1931. Burke Ward Public School 1895 until 1902. Superior Public School 1903-1915 then a public School from 1915 to this present day (from 1895 to 1897 classes had been conducted in the Wesleyan Chapel). 1903 a timber and iron building was removed from the Technical College grounds and relocated at the corner of Patton and Holdsworth Streets to become the East Broken Hill Primary School. The school was demolished in 1962. Railwaytown Infant School 1914-1958 then a public school from 1959 to this present day. Morgan Street Infant School 1917 to 1958 then a public school in 1959 to this present day. 1936 a Roman Catholic Primary School was opened at South Broken Hill. February 23, 1956, the Broken Hill School of the air was officially opened by the Director General of Education in New South Wales, Dr H. S. Wyndham. Mrs Phyllis Gibb was appointed teacher in charge and began broadcasting the School of the Air lessons through the network of the Flying Doctor Service. February 9, 1965 the new Central School building constructed on Waterworks Hill; and occupied; it was officially opened on April 28. Barrier School for Specific Purposes 1960-1994 Silverlea (SSP) until 1986. 1974 newly constructed Willyama High School was officially opened in February. St Joseph's Convent High School for young ladies was opened in February 1889 by Sisters of Mercy. The first Catholic School was opened in 1892. In 1897 another was established at Railwaytown. Bishop Hayden opened a primary school St Peters and St Pauls at North Broken Hill. The foundation stone of St Mary's a separate Infant's school at Railwaytown was laid by the very Reverent T. M. Fox, Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes in 1940. Mt Gipps public school 1889-1899 half time with Gossan Hill (Round Hill) 1895-1905. Eaglehawk until 1891. Limestone Public School 1889-1909. Acacia Dam until 1904. Umberumberka Public School 1889-1894. Provisional School 1912-1913. Half time with Pinnacles; c1914-1915. Provisional School 1916-1936. Silverton Public school 1884-1970. Gossan Hill public school 1887-1898; Half time with Mt Gipps 1889-1905; provisional 1907- 1908 public school 1909-1920. Round Hill until 1905. Round Hill evening public school 1890 only. Day Dream provisional school 1890-1895. McCulloch Park(Stephens Creek) 1901-1905. Provisional School 1910-1914 Public School 1915-1934 Provisional School from 1938-1939. Torrawangee public school 1892-1898, 1900-1901; House to House 1909-1910; Public School 1911-1912; half time with Euriowie 1912-1918, 1922-1925. Provisional School 1926-1928. Torawangee until 1916. Euriowie house to house 1909-1910. Half time with Torrawangee 1912-1818. 1922-1925. Purnamoota provisional school 1885-1886; house to house school visited in homes by itinerant teacher March 1886 to October 1886, Public School 1889-1893. Thackaringa Public School 1889-1907. George Creek Provisional School 1927-1928. 1919 the Round Hill School was closed and the pupils and one of the buildings were transferred to the North Primary School at Broken Hill. In January 1922 the remaining school building was transported from Taltingan (Round Hill) and placed near the McCulloch Park recreation grounds, Stephens Creek for the use of pupils at the McCulloch Park School. The Round Hill School residence was dismantled and the materials were incorporated in the re - erected school room. Pinnacles Provisional school 1890-1891. Public School 1891-1912; half time with Umberumberka 1914-1915; Provisional 1916-1922, 1924-1933. In 1934 only fourteen pupils were attending the McCulloch Park Primary School Stephens Creek, and it was decided that the school would close. Menindee Public School 1868-1952 central school 1953 to this present day CONTINUE NEXT |