School name: Bayly
Other name: * sometimes spelt Bayley
County name: Phillip
Transferred:
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Operating dates:
Type of school Opening date Closing date Half-time partner schools
Public School Aug 1881 Jul 1905
Half-Time School Oct 1905 Mar 1910 BOTOBOLAR1
1884 Teacher Appointed
On 1 Apr 1884 Thomas Langbridge was appointed teacher at Bayly Public Schhol2 .
1905
5 February 1905
Mr H Scott, Bayly, member Public Service Association3
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26 June 1905
A School Change.
Mr. Dunn, who has been in charge of the school at the Bayly Cross Roads, has received an intimation that he is to take charge of Merrendee school after the present holidays. We have not heard to what school Mr. Jack Cassidy has been transferred. It is not yet publicly known whether Botobolar school will be opened again, and therefore Mr. P. G. Ryan's movements are not known4
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13 July 1905
A Closed School.
The Department of Public Instruction has evidently not yet made up its mind what to do in the matter of the schools from the Cross Roads and Bayly to Upper Botobolar. The Botobolar school was opened after the holidays, and Mr. P. G. Ryan is still in charge. No teacher, however, has yet been appointed to Bayly school in succession to Mr. Dunne, who was promoted to Merrendee. It cannot surely be intended to close Bayly school, which has a larger average attendance than Botobolar. If it is intended that the school should remain open why is not a teacher appointed at once ? The neglect of this matter is no doubt due to some delay in the Sydney office, and is another evidence of the oft repeated assertion that the Department of Public Instruction is as much in need of reform in administration as it is in need of reform in the syllabus5
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31 August 1905
Half Time Schools.
Some weeks ago we stated that it was the intention of the Department of Public Instruction to close Botobolar School, and reduce Upper Botobolar and Bayly Cross Roads to half-time schools. We entered a strong protest against this, and it was then denied that the Department had any such intention. However, time has proved we were right, and the reduction of the schools has taken place. The Botobolar school, on which over £200 was spent two or three years ago, is closed, and will stand as a monument to the want of foresight of the responsible officers of the Department. Mr. O'Conor is always talking about his advanced policy, but if the history of the schools out Botobolar way is to be taken as a sample, we do not think much of it. It seems to be the policy of the Department to lavish money on high schools, technical colleges, &c, and neglect the schools of the bush6
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