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Sidebrook Provisional School in the County of Hardinge was established in June 1885. (1) Provisional Schools were opened in area of smaller populations where insufficient children attended to justify the opening of a full public school. By 1874 fifteen 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 April 1889 Sidebrook was upgraded to a Public School. (3) Originally the attendance of thirty children was required for the establishment of a Public School, but this was reduced to twenty five in 1867 and twenty in 1880.(4)
In January 1900 the School changed its name from Sidebrook Public School to Ben Lomond (2) Public School. (5)
As of 2015 the school was still open. (6)
Endnotes
1. Government Schools of New South Wales 1848-2003. Sydney, NSW Department of Education and Training, 2003, p.29.
2. ibid, p.17.
3. ibid, p.29.
4. ibid, p.18.
5. ibid, p.29.
6. NSW Department of Education and Communities website, School Locator https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/schoolfind/locator/?do=showRecord&code=1196 (accessed 27 February 2015).
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