Answers to Quiz 7: Schools
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1. What school building, still standing at 200 High Street, began as a boys school, was a girls college for a while, and even a Mormon Church - and is now a private dwelling? Kudos if you happen to know the name of the first head master, the name of the girls college, or the name of the pastor of the church (who was also a City Councillor).
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2. What girls school was given its name in 1901 by the person who is honoured by the name? (In other words she named it after herself!)
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3. Where had the girls previously gone to school, before 1900? Have a guess in what decade the building was erected.
The Infants and Girls School, a one-storey building built in 1878 and still standing across from the South Terrace entrance to the Fremantle Markets.
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4. One of the (many) buildings that used to be where the Fremantle Hospital is now was a school, and one of the original buildings is in fact still used as Block A of the hospital. What was the school?
I think strictly speaking Block A was the Intermediate School, but you get the point if you said Fremantle Primary School, because it was part of its complex. I'll even let you have South Terrace Primary School, as it was called that from 1952.
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5. A current Fremantle school has in its grounds some of the oldest gravestones ever erected in Fremantle? Why? And what is the school?
The present Fremantle Primary School (which has the address Brennan Street) is on the site of the first Fremantle cemetery, known as the Alma Street Cemetery. The gravestones - resited - preserve its memory. There were chosen as having particular relevance to the lives (and deaths!) of young people.
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6. What school building in Hampton Road was at least partly built on Montessori principles, following the ideas of Italian educator Maria Montessori that children should be out in the open air (tho under shelter) as much as possible?
Beaconsfield Primary School - still standing, but now the South Metropolitan Regional Education Office. Kim Beazley Snr, the father of the present Governor of WA was a pupil there.
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7. I think there was only one school built using convict labour in Fremantle. If there was more than one, then which one was built in 1853-54 and had G.B. Humble as headmaster?
The Fremantle Boys School in Adelaide Street turned up in the cinemas quiz as it was used by the Film and TV Institute for a long time. It's now tenanted by DADAA, and has a circus tent in its grounds (no connection)!
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8. What was the original intention (in 1879) for the land on which John Curtin High School (now fashionably called a 'College', like SFHS) now stands?
It was part of Fremantle Park, which is now much smaller than originally intended when it was given to the people of Fremantle by Queen Victoria for their recreation.
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9. Part of the John Curtin schoolgrounds - that part bordered by Vale Road - was used for about fifty years for something quite different from games. What was it?
It was the Skinner Street Cemetery 1852-1899, and there are still the remains of hundreds of people in the ground there. So that's two Fremantle school standing on former cemeteries.
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10. What alternative secondary school, which was in existence 1973-1983, used as its premises St Mary's Church and its hall in North Fremantle, Dalkeith House at 160 High Street, and the North Fremantle Town Hall?
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