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Tenterden Provisional School [III] in the County of Hardinge was established in January 1946. (1) Provisional Schools were opened in areas of smaller populations where insufficient children attended to justify the opening of a full public school. By 1945 nine students were required to maintain a provisional school. Usually the Department of Public Instruction supplied the teacher, books and other teaching materials and the parents provided the premises for the School. (2)
In November 1957 all remaining provisional schools in the State were converted to Public Schools with a minimum attendance of nine. The Department met the total costs of the School. (3)
The School closed in December 1975. (4)
A school previously existed at Tenterden from 1884 to 1931. (5)
Endnotes
1. NSW Department of Education and Training. Government Schools of New South Wales 1848-2003. Sydney, the Department, 2003, p.126.
2. ibid., p.17.
3. ibid., pp.18, 126.
4. ibid., p.126.
5. ibid., p.126; Agency 6255.
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