School - Koorda

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At the beginning of the school year of 1920, Mrs. Julia Morgan opened a school in the little first Agricultural Hall in Koorda. Greenhams, Marriotts, Franklins, Brooks, Sinclairs, and many others attended this school. The long school desks with the built-in inkwells, a blackboard, chair and table from the Cowcowing School were brought in by Frank Lodge. The numbers grew quickly, the little hall being quite inadequate, so one of the pavilion type portable schools was erected after a couple of years and eventually Lot 34, Reserve 17552 was set aside for the school site. A school master's house was erected in 1925. Julia Morgan with the soft cultivated voice that was never raised, taught by methods probably considered hopelessly wrong now. The children read and learned the lyric poetry of the British Isles and read, or had read to them, its best literature. The children had no feeling of being isolated pupils in a little bush school. They were told they were part of an outpost of the greatest empire the world had known, told of stirring deeds that had made it so. Two of her first five pupils won scholarships when they were highly prized as the only means of admission to the very few secondary schools in the State.

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