Kiewa Valley Consolidated School was established in 1953 combining Dederang North, Kergunyah, Gundowring, Kiewa, Gundowring Upper, Red Bluff, Charleroi and Gundowing North schools on a 10 acre site with 11 rooms at Kiewa.The above schools are in the Kiewa Valley. The date and number of combined schools give insight into the change in population and families in the Kiewa Valley before and after 1953.Five A4 photocopied pages of a yellow and black booklet including the first 9 pages.kiewa valley consolidated school; dederang; kiewa valley; education

Grade 2 of Pakenham Consolidated School in 1953 with their teacher Mrs Joyce Hosking. Back row L to R: Paul Manestar or Bill Vallender, Bernie Carter, (?), Norman Whitelaw, Richard Shelton, Rodney Shallard, Ian Reid (Reidy?) or Duncan Beard (Reidy), Ken Jarred, Glen Jolly. 2nd back row L to R: Keith Crofts, Peter Johnstone, Kevin Lewis, Robert Tulloch (Bones), Nipper Reid, Duncan Beard(?), Bruce Weatherhead, Peter Hobson (Hobbo). 2nd row from front L to R: David Langley, Kath Mauger, Jill Peck, Rosamund Hunt, Beth Schilling, Roslyn Smith, Lynne Tuena, Pat Stone, Joy Higgins, Lynette Wheeler, Grif Fearon or Kevin McInnis. Front row L to R: Ken McCaffrey, Marion Butcher, Helen Stephens, Mary Lou Walsh, Glenis Tuena, Dawn Hillderbrick/ Hillbrick(?), Marion Hansford, Kaye Wollard, Beverley Payne (Payney), Edna Sinclair(?), Paul Braemar. In the 1940s and 1950s there was a movement to consolidate small rural schools into one larger school. This was partly a response to a shortage of teachers, due to many male teachers enlisting during the Second World War. The War also caused a shortage of materials and labour and many Schools fell into disrepair. The Education Department decided that Pakenham would be one of the first six Consolidated Schools to be established and that all schools within 8 kms or 5 miles would be closed. The Pakenham Consolidated School was officially opened on May 29, 1951, on the site of the Pakenham State School, No.1359, in Main Street. The original Pakenham School had opened on a site near the Toomuc Creek in January 1875 and it moved to the Main Street site in 1891. The first Head Master was Charles Hicks. The School offered classes up to Year 10 (Form 4). The schools that formed the Consolidated School were Pakenham Upper No. 2155 (closed January 1952), Pakenham South No. 3755 (closed September 1951), Toomuc Valley No. 3034 (closed September 1951), Army Road No. 3847 (closed April 1947), Mount Burnett No. 4506 (closed October 1949), Tynong No. 2854 (closed April 1951), Tynong North No.4464 (closed December 1951), Nar Nar Goon North No. 2914 (closed October 1951), Nar Nar Goon South No. 4554 (closed May 1951), Rythdale No. 4231 (closed September 1951), Officedale No. 4242 (closed May 1951), Cora Lynn No. 3502 (closed May 1951) and Koo-Wee-Rup North (Five Mile) No. 3198 (closed November 1959). The School consisted of new buildings, which at the time cost one hundred thousand pounds, and many of the old School buildings. Some towns did not realise that their School buildings would be removed from the sites and transferred to Pakenham. The Pakenham Consolidated School moved from its original location in Main Street to its current location in Rundell, Way in 1997.This photograph is of historic and social significance. Pakenham Consolidated School was one of the first six Consolidated Schools established by the Education Department, and was born out of shortages of teachers, labour, and materials during World War II. The school can be used more broadly to reflect on the evolution of education in the state of Victoria, as the school can trace its origins all the way back to 1875, when the original Pakenham School was opened near Toomuc Creek. The photograph is also of social significance to many community groups, including Cardinia Shire, past and current students and teachers, allowing various groups to reflect on and share intangible memories of times spent at Pakenham Consolidated School.Copy of a rectangular black and white photograph on matte photographic paperpakenham consolidated school, primary school, class photo, grade two, grade 2, pakenham, school, photo

Donald Clark Collection.Two letters relating to a proposal to close various schools in the region around Tarnagulla and to create a consolidated school at Newbridge. The first (.1), dated 02/12/1947, is from the Education Department to the Newbridge School Committee asking for it to produce a report on the views of parents in the related schools which are listed. The second (.2), dated 17/01/1949, is from the Education Department to the Newbridge School Committee thanking it for compiling the report and acknowledging there was insufficient support for the proposal. schools, education

Back Row L to R: Robert Tulloch, Kevin Lewis, Ron Lamb, Peter Johnson, Ian Reid, Paul Braemar, ?? Paul Manestar ? 2nd back row L to R: ? Terry, Rodney Shallard, Duncan Beard, Terry Norris, Ray Murphy, Mrs Joyce Hosking, Richard Shelton, ?? Keith Crofts 2nd row from front L to R: Joy Beard, Joy Higgins, Kath Mauger, Lynette Giles , Mareka Slot, Sue Kinsella, Carol Waterhouse, Beth Schilling, Lyn Tuena, Roslyn Smith, Maree Vale Front row L to R: Marion Butcher,?, Glenys Tuena, Pam Huntingford, Sue Scott, Pat Stone, ?, Helen Stephens

Back Row L to R: - - - - - Robert Smith 2nd Back Row L to R: - - - - Susan Cook, Mrs Joyce Hosking, Wendy Jackson, -, Betty Kenworthy, 2nd row from front L to R: -, Hone - - - - - Carol Nye, Hogben, Front Row l to R: -, Wallis, - - - - Ron Saunders

Port Fairy State School built 1870’s or as is now known Port Fairy Consolidated SchoolVery early photograph of the school and the fence and could have been the first photograph taken of the School because Thomas Washbourne the photographer was only active until 1880.Pt Fairy State School & Pupils approx 1880 Showing stone fence and taken from the right side on Polding Street. Sepia photographWashbourne photo -handwritten on face of photoschool, polding street, pupils, consolidated school, state school

Schoolbag belonging to Joan Powling when she was a student at the Port Fairy Consolidated School in the 1960s.The school bag is typical of the bag that children would carry their school work, lunch bag to and from school in this period. It evokes memories of another time period and is culturally significant to the life of children who attended the Port Fairy Consolidated School. Brown solid leather school bag with 2 backstraps, 2 buckle fasteners.Solid leather 13. Joan Powling.school bag, joan powling, port fairy consolidated school

Former pupils of Port Fairy Consolidated School 1874/1979 "125 Years Back To Celebrations"125 years of the Port Fairy State School/Consolidated School Polding StreetColoured photographconsolidated school, primary state school, port fairy, pupils, reunions

NORTH CLUNES STATE SCHOOL NO. 1552, BRICK BUILDING - BUILT 1875. LATER BECAME HIGHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LATER AGAIN - A CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL.ORIGINAL SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH OF NORTH STATE SCHOOL - BUILT 1875. AND FIVE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOCOPIES, LATER IT BECAME THE HIGHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND LATER AGAIN A CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL.THE STATE SCHOOL, NORTH CLUNES.local history, 1552, north clunes state school

This sketch of a tree whose bark was cut, by aboriginal craftsmen, to produce a canoe for fishing in the rivers running through the Kiewa Valley either before or just after the 1800's. The tree trunk depicted in the sketch would have been used at the beginning of European settlement in the Kiewa Valley or just before contact was made.As this sketch was of a tree found along the Kiewa River it indicates that Aborigines lived by the river. This sketch depicts the usage of tree bark by the Aboriginal fisher person in crafting a canoe to cross rivers and to fish in the deeper sections of the river course.This freehand sketch detailing the outline of bark removed to provide a canoe is in ink portraying a tree trunk with one branch which has a plaque in front a gravel section to the right and open fields in the mid background and scattered trees on a hill slope in the far background. The sketch is on thick cardboard with a plastic protective cover over it (fastened on the flip side). It is a sketch of the tree now exhibited at the Kiewa Consolidated School.Written in black ink on the top section (heading) "ABORIGINES CUT CANOE FROM TREE. NOW AT KIEWA SCHOOL"crafted canoe, aboriginal craftsmanship, tree usage, early aboriginal craftsmen, kiewa river. kiewa consolidated school

This Honour roll used to hang in the hall just inside the front door. We are not sure as to its location at the moment.Black and white photograph of the 1914-18 Honour roll at Port Fairy Consolidated School school, honour roll, 1914-18

Newspaper cutting mentioning the retirement and career of Mervyn Hall, a teacher at the Golden Square Primary School (Laurel St). Photo shows Mervyn Hall with teachers, Sue Hoile, Robyn Powell, Barbara Reidt and Shane Rodda. They are presenting him with an artist's impression of Bendigo's Sacred Heart Cathedral.education, primary, golden square laurel st p.s., golden square primary school 1189 collection - newspaper cuttings, mervyn hall, sue hoile, robyn powell, barbara reidt, shane rodda, violet st school, bendigo high school, camp hill school, tongala consolidated school, kangaroo flat primary school, bendigo north primary school, comet hill school, eaglehawk football club, bendigo matting association, bendigo bowling club, apexian, janene hall, craig hall, blair hall, heather hall

1. Kiewa Valley Consolidated School was established in 1953 combining Dederang North, Kergunyah, Gundowring, Kiewa, Gundowring Upper, Red Bluff, Charleroi and Gundowing North schools on a 10 acre site with 11 rooms at Kiewa. The bark was cut from the canoe tree, by aboriginal craftsmen, to produce a canoe for fishing in the rivers running through the Kiewa Valley either before or just after the 1800's. The tree trunk, located at Kiewa, would have been used at the beginning of European settlement in the Kiewa Valley or just before contact was made. 2. Pictorial record of the graves of early pioneers C Ibbotson, Mrs Elizabeth Eyre and John Eyre who died between 1858 – 1904, all located at Tawonga Homestead 1. The above schools are in the Kiewa Valley. The date and number of combined schools give insight into the change in population and families in the Kiewa Valley before and after 1953. The tree was found along the Kiewa River and indicates that Aborigines lived by the river and used tree bark to craft canoes to cross rivers and to fish in the deeper sections of the river. 2. Pictorial record of the early history of Kiewa Valley pioneers whose descendants have lived and worked in the Kiewa Valley for many years 1. Newspaper article of local school children visiting a canoe tree in Kiewa July 11, 1972. mounted on buff card 2. Black and white photo of pioneer graves at old Tawonga Homestead. Mounted on buff card 1. Handwritten in black ink above newspaper clipping ‘Canoe Tree Kiewa Valley Consolidated School. 11 July, 1972’ Handwritten in pencil at bottom of article ’10 Nov. ‘72’ 2. Handwritten in black ink above photo ‘Tawonga Homestead graves’ Handwritten below photo ‘T Ibbotson D. 1858, Elizabeth Eyre D. 1879, John Eyre D 1879, John Eyre D. 1904 tawonga homestead, canoe tree at kiewa, tawonga graves

Newspaper clipping 11 July 1972. See KVHS 1030 and KVHS 0198The tree was found along the Kiewa River and indicates that Aborigines lived by the river and used tree bark to craft canoes to cross rivers and to fish in the deeper sections of the river.Wooden board with raised letters glued on. Surrounded by a wooden frame with decorated corners. It has 3vwooden footings. some letters have fallen off. See KVHS 1030Message: Aborigine Canoe Tree / From Mr D. Leys Property / Presented By / Kiewa Valley Historical Society / To The / Kiewa Consolidated School. / 11 July 1972canoe tree at kiewa

Document. Who's who on the Wallaby Track.Program design by Jan Orr, East Loddon Consolidated School. A play with many people, and a choir with more people and Maple st Bush Band, and Staff.document, memo, who's who on the wallaby track

The school in Peterborough was operating out of the hall at that time. This is probably the last group of students at the Peterborough school as the Timboon Consolidated School was opened in 1948.Shows the small school and names of local students at that time. Peterborough school was incorporated into the Timboon Consolidated School.Two copies of original photographs, one of a group of school students in front of the hall, the other is a picture of the front of the hall, circa 1947Handwritten on the back are the names of the students and the date. the picture of the hall also has the name and date.peterborough, peterborough hall, peterborough school, geoff mckenzie, ron staghorn, pat barling, john barling, joan wiber, margaret barling, yvonne barling, ray lane, danny barling, jenny irvine, bill barling

Education in Mount Beauty began in the 1940s when the SECV constructed the town of Mount Beauty for their workers and staff. The educational facilities included a kindergarten, a primary / consolidated school and a secondary college. Mount Beauty education was highly valued by the residents of Mt Beauty and families in the Kiewa Valley. In the 1940s and 1950s it was very modern with new buildings and included the latest in teaching aids and technology. A Collection of Mount Beauty Primary School, Secondary College, Mt Beauty Kindergarten Newsletters Dates 1992 - 1997. Note: Photo includes hand made booklet with photos of children at schooleducation in mount beauty, mt beauty school newsletters