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Schools Quiz
1. What school building, still standing at 200 High Street, began as a boys school, was a girls college for a while, and even a Mormon Church - and is now a private dwelling. Kudos if you happen to know the name of the first headmaster, the name of the girls college, or the name of the pastor of the church (who was also a City Councillor).
2. What girls school was given its name in 1901 by the person who is honoured by the name? (In other words she named it after herself!)
3. Where had the girls previously gone to school, before 1900?
4. One of the (many) buildings that used to be where the Fremantle Hospital is now was a school, and one of the original buildings is in fact still used as Block A of the hospital. What was the school?
5. A current Fremantle school has in its grounds some of the oldest gravestones ever erected in Fremantle? Why? And what is the school?
6. What school building in Hampton Road was at least partly built on Montessori principles, following the ideas of Italian educator Maria Montessori that children should be out in the open air (tho under shelter) as much as possible?
7. I think there was only one school built using convict labour in Fremantle. If there was more than one, then which one was built in 1853-54 and had G.B. Humble as headmaster?
8. What was the original intention (in 1879) for the land on which John Curtin HS (now fashionably called a 'College', like SFHS) now stands?
9. Part of the John Curtin schoolgrounds - that part bordered by Vale Road - was used for about fifty years for something quite different from games. What was it?
10. What alternative secondary school, which was in existence 1973-1983, used as its premises St Mary's Church and its hall in North Fremantle, Dalkeith House at 160 High Street, and the North Fremantle Town Hall?
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