The Royal Readers had been prepared especially for Victorian schools and featured some Australian content. The authors made great use of the natural world as well as incidents and common daily events to attract children to the stories. Teachers were encouraged to teach children not only the 'art of reading' but also a 'love of reading'. Illustrations were used effectively to attract children 'through the eye' to the stories and to help them understand same. They were used extensively in Victorian schools as well as in other states. However, during the 1890s and especially the early 1900s, governments came under increasing pressure to change the reading books again because these books did not reflect the rapid scientific advances in the 1890s. Royal Readers date quickly when a new syllabus was introduced in 1905. Education materials were to be relevant to children's daily lives with a demand for greater local content. (info. from http://education.qld.gov.au)This book as an example of school work in the early 20th century. It reflects the the way reading was taught, to young children in Victoria. It reflects the changes in education in East Gippsland and is a useful comparison tool for literacy teaching. A small book with a blue fabric cover. It is titled Royal Readers No V1 and is a part of a series of Royal Readers.inside cover - E.A. Stephenson, Longford.education-texts schools-reading royal-readers

Red hard cover volume with hand written names from A to ZOn front cover - Index of Pupils Register

Installation of Alexander "Sandy" Scott to the Lodge Eastland No.772 on Thursday 3-Sep-2009White covered programme with blue writing and black logo insert printed. +Additional Keywords: Scott, Alexander (Sandy)

East Ringwood 2000- Formerly the East Ringwood Primary School No 4680- B&W Photo from Album 6501

Rock fragments excavated during construction work on Eastland shopping centre extensions.Five rock fragments showing reference no.141484198821 - parts of Eastland excavation in November 2014 donated by Terry Ahern, obtained through Probuild building contractors. +Additional Keywords: Eastland / Terry Ahern / ProbuildPart of the old Eastland

Framed Mission Statement for Southwood State School No.4857Southwood State School No.4857 - We want to see a Southwood that teachers will want to teach in, that children will want to attend and to where parents will wish to send their children, a Southwood where every child will receive every possible assistance in learning, where the teachers will have the use of every possible aid to teaching and where the grounds will be sufficiently attractive to make this a most pleasant place of learning.

Written on back of photograph, "21.4.82. No.90 Kubis Drive, North Ringwood."

Written on back of photograph, "21/4/82. No. 96 Kubis Drive."

Written on back of photograph, "21/4/82. No.94 Kubis Drive."

Written on back of photograph, "21/4/82. No.12 Glenvale Road"

Written on back of photograph, "21/4/82 No.14 Glenvale Road"

Written on back of photograph, "21/4/82. Looking west across Glenvale Road from No.14 at what was once Keith Storey's property."

Written on back of photograph, "21/4/82. No.14 Glenvale Road towards Mitcham. Deep Creek Road in background left."

Written on back of photograph, "21/4/82. No.5 Menzies Drive, North Ringwood".

Written on back of photograph, "21/4/82. No.3 Menzies Drive, North Ringwood"

Photograph of Foundation stone for Ringwood State School No. 2997 was laid by Mrs. J.K. Turnbull on 15th August, 1889, marking the opening of the school situated in Whitehorse Road at the corner of Ringwood Street (1889-1922). Mrs. Turnbull was the wife of the Ringwood Station Master. The stone was removed after the school closed in 1922 and re-laid in 1962 by the School Committee at this subsequent Greenwood Avenue school site and is pictured here being viewed near the entrance in 1973 by Mr. Ron Pullin, Archivist, Ringwood Historical Research Group".Sign below photograph reads, "Foundation stone of Ringwood State School (late Ringwood St.). Now in grounds of Greenwood Avenue Ringwood State School". Inscription on stone, "This foundation stone was laid by Mrs. J.K. Turnbull on 15th August 1889". Printed on plaque below stone, "No.2997 - Ringwood State School 1889-1922. Situated in Ringwood Street, East Side sixty yards north of Maroondah Highway. Foundation stone removed 19?? re-erected by the School Committee 1962".

The same wording as the sign is written on backing sheet of photograph.

Typed below photograph, "Ringwood State School, Greenwood Ave. Built 1922" (although the date on the building reads 1921).