Fionas Universe | Spring Flat School

School name: Spring Flat

Other name: -
County name: Wellington
Transferred:
URL for linking: https://nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au/schoolHistory?schoolId=7155
Operating dates:
Type of school Opening date Closing date Half-time partner schools
Public School Oct 1871 Apr 1893
Half-Time School Jun 1894 Dec 1895 GALAMBINE 1

1880 John Clarke Appointed

On 22 June 1880 Mr John Clarke was appointed teacher at Spring Flat Public School2 .

1885

3 November 1885 John Irving Clarke was instructed to act as teacher at Rylstone Public 3 .

1895

The Messrs. Watters are members of a large family, who received their education in the old Spring Flat School, which has since been demolished. The last teacher who conducted the school in the days of the Watters family was the late John Irving Clarke, a good, kind-hearted old gentleman, who was afterwards headmaster of the Rylstone Public School for several years4 .

1 Secretary. ‘School History Database Search’. NSW Department of Education, 29 January 2020. https://education.nsw.gov.au/about-us/our-people-and-structure/history-of-government-schools/school-database-search.html.

2 New South Wales Government Gazette. ‘Government Gazette Appointments and Employment’. 22 June 1880. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221630706.

3 ‘John Irving Clarke’. State Records of NSW. CLARKE John I School Teachers’ rolls 1869-1908 Series: NRS 4073: Teachers’ Rolls, 1869-1908 | Page No: 837 | Reel No: 1992 | Roll: 2. State Records of NSW. Accessed 22 July 2022. https://www.ancestrylibrary.com.au/imageviewer/collections/4889/images/41532_309141-00437. Copy held

4 Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative. ‘Spring Flat Revisited’. 3 January 1918. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article156190082. Copy held