Other name: -
County name: Phillip
Transferred:
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Operating dates:
Type of school Opening date Closing date Half-time partner schools
Half-Time School Nov 1908 Oct 1909 MURRAGAMBA
Provisional School Jan 1910 Jun 1913
Half-Time School Jun 1913 Nov 1917 ULAN1
11 June 1908
A dance was held at Cooke's Gap on the 6th instant in aid of the Cooke's Gap Public School Building Fund, and a handsome sum was netted. It is pleasing to see our neighbors so much in earnest about their children's education, and I hope I will soon be able to report a full time school for Cooke's Gap, and a teacher appointed2
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23 July 1908
New School Building
Messrs. Gossage Bros, are busily engaged building the school at Cooke's Gap, and expect to have everything completed this week. Mr. H. E. Blackman is organising a dancing party for the 1st of August in aid of the building fund. The department is paying nothing towards the erection of the building, so it is to be hoped that the dance will return a sum equal to the cost incurred in building. Many, no doubt, who are living too far away to attend, will show their sympathy in a practical way by purchasing tickets3
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26 November 1908
Mr Barwick
Mr. Barwick is the new teacher and has an attendance of something like 20 children at the latter place4
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10 February 1910
New teacher
Cook's Gap school, which had been closed for the last four months, through mismanagement of the Department, was re-opened on the 24th ultimo. Mr. Maurice Connolly is the new teacher, and comes from Wollar; he is well known here. He is a cricketer of the stone-wall type, and has become a member of the local club5
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12 June 1913
New teacher
Mr. V. Barwick was transferred from Murragamba School and Moolarben School to Ulan School and Cooks Gap School. Mr. M. Connolly was transferred from Cooks Gap to Murragamba School6
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21 Nov 1918
Not Reopening Provisional School
Captain W. F. Dunn, M.L.A has received the following communication (Nov. 16) from the Department of Education: - 'In reply to your representations in relation to the application for the re-opening of the Provisional School at Cook's Gap. From a further report obtained upon the matter, it would appear that the number of available children of school age is not sufficient to warrant the re-opening of the provisional school and that the existing subsidised school meets the present educational requirements of the district7
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