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Cremorne Girls High School
Cremorne Girls High School, (abbreviation CGHS) is a former high school located on Murdoch Street in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne, New South Wales, Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia. It was a girls high school operated by the New South Wales Department of Education with students from years 7 to 12. The school was first established in 1927 as Neutral Bay Girls Intermediate High School. However, due to declining enrolments the school was declared surplus to the needs of the department and officially closed in 1987. The school and its heritage-listed buildings are now a satellite campus of Redlands, Cremorne, Redlands. History The school was first established in 1927 as Neutral Bay Girls Intermediate High School, but traced its history back to the establishment of the Neutral Bay Public School in 1886. However, within a few years, the buildings on the site on Murdoch Street, Cremorne, were considered to be inadequate. The foundation stone of the new main building was laid by Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cremorne Girls High School Badge 1952-1987
Cremorne may refer to: Places *Cremorne (barony), County Monaghan, Ireland *Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia *Cremorne, Tasmania, Australia *Cremorne, Queensland, Australia *Cremorne, Victoria, Australia Other uses *Baron Cremorne *Cremorne (clipper), ''Cremorne'' (clipper), a 1863 clipper ship that sailed between New York and San Francisco *Cremorne, Hamilton, a heritage-listed villa in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia *Cremorne (horse), winner of the 1872 Epsom Derby See also *''The Cremorne'', a Victorian pornographic magazine *Cremorne Gardens (other), two pleasure gardens in England and Australia in the 19th century *Crumhorn, a musical instrument also known as a cremorne {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willoughby Girls High School
Willoughby Girls' High School (WGHS) is a public, secondary, day school for girls, located in Willoughby, a lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1934, Willoughby Girls' High currently enrols around a thousand students from Years 7 to 12, and is the only comprehensive government girls' school situated on the lower north shore of Sydney. Facilities and activities Willoughby Girls High School has a variety of facilities for students, including, a playing field, library, senior study rooms, canteen, science labs, computer labs, design and technology and textile rooms, music studio, art rooms, and landscaped courtyards. The school has also been providing extension classes for the last nine years in Maths, English and Science for those girls with higher marks, who are selected to this class in year 7 through a series of tests, and every subsequent year through their course marks . The school also puts on a musical every 2 years. Extra c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Government Schools In New South Wales
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Rutter
Jane Rutter (born 2 November 1958) is an Australian flautist. Her repertoire encompasses classical, jazz, and pop music. Career Rutter specializes in the French Flute School. She has lectured at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and formed the chamber group POSH. Rutter has performed worldwide. She has released over twenty solo albums. Personal life Rutter lives in Sydney with her family. Outside music, she supports green causes. In 2005 she took her stepmother to court over her father's estate. Discography Awards and nominations In 2016, Rutter was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. ! , - , 1990 , ''Nocturnes & Preludes for Flutes'' , Best Classical Album , , ARIA Award previous winners. , - , 2004 , ''Brazil'' (with Slava Grigoryan) , Best World Music Album , , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Perryman
Jill Perryman (born 30 May 1933) is an Australian retired actress, singer and dancer with a career that spanned 70 years. Perryman is from a family of show business performers; her sister was actress Diana Perryman and her son is media personality, radio and TV presenter and musician Tod Johnston. Perryman, although a staple of theatre, appeared briefly in film; for her debut film role in '' Maybe this Time'' in 1980, she was awarded the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (known then as the AFI Awards) and has also appeared as a guest in numerous TV series and as herself. She has been honoured with both the MBE (1979) and Member of the Order of Australia (1992), both with the citation "For service to the Performing Arts". Career Perryman became a staple of Australian showbusiness, having performed on stage from the age of three in a production of the famed Austrian operetta '' The White Horse Inn''. Perryman in 1952, then aged 19, joined the company of J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Hay
Jean Frances Hay (née Arthurson; born 1940) is an Australian local government politician. She served as the Mayor of Manly Council from 1999 to 2004 and was the last mayor of Manly from 8 September 2008 to 12 May 2016, following Manly's amalgamation into the new Northern Beaches Council. Early life and family Born Jean Frances Arthurson in Manly in 1940, Arthurson grew up in Manly and attended Cremorne Girls High School. On 1 March 1958, Arthurson married NSW Liberal politician David Hay and had one son and two daughters. In 2009 Hay, while serving as mayor, was diagnosed with breast cancer but by 2011 was declared cancer-free. Local government career Hay was first elected to the Manly Municipal Council in September 1987 and was first elected Mayor from 1999 to 2004. In the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Hay was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to the Manly community through local government, community action and sporting groups, and as a fund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Grenville
Catherine Elizabeth Grenville (born 1950) is an Australian author. She has published fifteen books, including fiction, non-fiction, biography, and books about the writing process. In 2001, she won the Orange Prize for Fiction, Orange Prize for ''The Idea of Perfection'', and in 2006 she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for ''The Secret River''. ''The Secret River'' was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her novels have been published worldwide and have been translated into many languages. Three have been adapted into feature films. ''The Secret River'' was adapted for the stage by Andrew Bovell and toured by the Sydney Theatre Company in 2019. Life Kate Grenville was born in 1950, one of three children born to Ken Gee (judge), Kenneth Grenville Gee, a District Court of New South Wales, District Court judge and barrister; and Isobel Russell, a pharmacist.Henderson (2008). She was educated at Cremorne Girls High School, the University of Sydney (BA Hons) and the Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Christie
Frances Helen Christie (born 1939), is Emeritus professor of language and literacy education at the University of Melbourne, and honorary professor of education at the University of Sydney. She specialises in the field of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and has completed research in language and literacy education, writing development, pedagogic grammar, genre theory, and teaching English as a mother tongue and as a second language. Biography Christie was born in Sydney in 1939. She was educated at Cremorne Girls' High School and completed a BA majoring in English and history, and a Dip Ed., at the University of Sydney. Her teaching career took her to schools in rural New South Wales and to London in the UK. While completing a Master of Education at the University of Sydney (1977), Christie was highly influenced by the outstanding scholar of the history of educational theory, curriculum design and pedagogical principles in the western tradition, W. F. Connell (1916-2001), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Bursill
Tina Bursill (born 24 July 1951) is an Australian actress. She played Louise Carter on the television series '' Skyways'' (1979–1981) and Sonia Stevens on ''Prisoner'' (1983–1984). She played Meryl Knight in the Nine Network drama series '' Doctor Doctor''. Bursill won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1987 film '' Jilted''. Early life Tina Bursill was born on 24 July 1951 in Sydney. Initially, she intended to pursue a career in anthropology, however, she set her sights on becoming an actress. She studied drama at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and graduated in 1971. Career Theatre Bursill started her career in musicals and stand-up comedy, before being cast in more serious roles in theatre. Most recently, she was in a production of ''Cinderella'' in 2022. Television Bursill made her television debut in 1973, appearing in the lead role of short-lived comedy series '' The People Next Door'' as Meg Penrose. She was a regular character in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian House Of Representatives
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Australian Senate, Senate. Its composition and powers are set out in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. The term of members of the House of Representatives is a maximum of three years from the date of the first sitting of the House, but on only 1910 Australian federal election, one occasion since Federation has the maximum term been reached. The House is almost always dissolved earlier, usually alone but sometimes in a double dissolution alongside the whole Senate. Elections for members of the House of Representatives have always been held in conjunction with those for the Senate since the 1970s. A member of the House may be referred to as a "Member of Parliament" ("MP" or "Member"), while a member of the Senate is usually referred to as a "senator". Under the conventions of the Westminster system, the Australian Government, government of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Bishop
Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop (née Setright; born 19 October 1942) is an Australian former politician who served as the 29th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015, during the Abbott ministry, Abbott government. Her service of almost 30 years as a member of the federal parliament is the longest of any woman in Australia. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, she served as a senator for New South Wales from 1987 to 1994 after which she became the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Division of Mackellar, Mackellar from 1994 to 2016. During her time in parliament she served as the minister for Defence Industry from 1996 to 1998 and minister for Aged Care from 1998 to 2001 under Prime Minister Howard government, John Howard. Bishop was born in Sydney and worked as a lawyer before entering politics. She served as state president of the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), New South Wales Liberals from 1985 to 1987, and then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonial Revival Architecture
The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the architectural traditions of their colonial past. Fairly small numbers of Colonial Revival homes were built –1910, a period when Queen Anne-style architecture was dominant in the United States. From 1910–1930, the Colonial Revival movement was ascendant, with about 40% of U.S. homes built in the Colonial Revival style. In the immediate post-war period (–early 1960s), Colonial Revival homes continued to be constructed, but in simplified form. In the present day, many New Traditional homes draw from Colonial Revival styles. Although associated with the architectural movement, "Colonial Revival" also refers to historic preservation, landscape architecture and garden design, and decorative arts movements that emulate or draw in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
