School

School History

 

 

Parish’s Name:           St Joseph’s and St Mary’s, Bingara

 

 

 

 

School established:

1888:   45 students

1889:   55 Students to include secondary boarding school facilities

1893:   69 students a short period of “parochial school” (lay teachers) before the nuns returned later in the same year

1942:   70 students (no longer boarding facilities)

1964:   secondary closed

 

 

Col 01	Col 11	Col 21
1979-1980	Mr Chris Waters	(49)

Principals and enrolled number of students:

1979-1980       Mr Chris Waters          (49)

1981-1983       Mr Peter Slattery          (49 approx)

1984                Mr Ted Tonkin             (49 approx)

1985-1986       Mr Alfred Chaplin        (40 approx)

1987-1988       Mr John Cahill              (40 approx)

1989-1990       Mr Wayne Pettiford      (28 approx)

1991-1999       Miss Kay Herington      (20 approx)

2000                Geraldine Holland     (Teacher in Charge)

2001-2003       Geraldine Holland                 15 - Aug 2003

 

 

History of School

As written for their Centenary.

The growth of the township of Bingara was partly due to the Gold Rushes of the 1850's, when many Chinese people settled in the district to work in the mines. From this time onwards the population grew steadily, as did the area of land that came to be placed in the Parish of Bingara.

The Australasian Catholic Directory (commonly called

"ORDO") of 1888 lists a "Parochial School in Bingara, at which 45 pupils were enrolled. By the following year the number of pupils increased to 55. According to the 1889 ORDO, the school was taken over that year by the Sisters of Mercy and was apparently meeting the needs of the people by being a small Secondary Boarding School. If the ORDO information is reliable, by 1893 it reverted to a "Parochial School conducted by secular teachers" and had 69 children enrolled.