School name: Cooyal
Other name: -
County name: Phillip
Transferred:
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Operating dates:
Type of school Opening date Closing date
Public School May 1877 Aug 1916
Public School Jun 1920 Dec 19621
On 22 June 1880 Mr Henry Rienits was appointed teacher at Cooyal Public School2 .
On 5 March 1897 teacher Mr P C Morrissey was transferred from Cooyal School to The Glen Public School3
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On 5 March 1897 teacher Mr J Benson was transferred from Nelson School to Coooyal Public School4
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17 October 1918
Captain Dunn, MLA, who has been pressing the matter of the reopening of the Public School at Cooyai (Stony Creek) on the attention of the Department has been informed that the existing conditions do not warrant the reopening of the school, the request for which cannot be acceded to5 .
11 September 1919
For the erection of a new school and residence at Cooyal Central, the tender of Wurth and Wright at £13000 has been accepted6 .
8 July 1920
Owing to the flooding of the Cooyal-Mudgee district roads, consequent on the heavy rain of last week, the ceremony of the opening of the new Public School at Cooyal, planned for last Saturday, and that was to have been performed by l W F Dunn, M.L.A., Minister Agriculture, has been indefinitely postponed7 .
15 November 1923
There was much excitement at Cooyal central school on Friday last, when a snake was found in a shed. The incessant barking of a dog caused the teacher, Mr. D. H. McMonigal, to ascertain the cause. On looking into the shed a brown snake was seen, and after some difficulty, it was pinned to the ground and killed. The snake was 4ft 6in. in length, and is the second to be killed on the school premises this month8 .