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Spearwood Alternative School
Angus McLeod, political activist and Chairman of the Spearwood Progress Association had been pressing the Education Department for a local school. In July 1914, the new school, built by the Hines brothers, was opened on Rockingham Road. It is the Spearwood Alternative School today.
Mr Hatfield was the first teacher at the school with an enrolment of 15 boys and 14 girls. In a letter to the Education Department on 30 June 1930 the Headmaster, Arthur Malone, wrote "... the new school now consists of 3 classrooms and an office. Attached to the school is a very fine flower garden. The standard of education is that prescribed by the Education Department's curriculum for a large school."
"When children pass out of Class VI (now Year 7) they go to one of the Fremantle schools." Bill Thomas, 'Know your suburb: Spearwood'.
The first principal of Spearwood Alternative School was Ron Chesney, from when it began in 1948. He was followed for a long stint by Kevin Gillan. Then came Jenny Nash 1992-94, followed by Denise Stone, who is still principal in 2024.
References and Links
Fremantle Herald.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 30 April, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/schools/spearwoodalternative.html (it was last updated on 8 May, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.