Bush School: a 20-year-old teacher fresh out of college, a tiny one-teacher school in a paddock miles from anywhere, eighteen children aged between 5 and 15 - nothing to it!
✍ Scribed by Peter O'Brien
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New South Wales
- ISBN
- 1760874876
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang even a hat, no door, no rug for cold morning bare feet, no bookshelf for a voracious reader, no bedside cupboard for a lamp or a glass of water, no light source - just a bed and a suitcase for the next two years.
In 1960, newly minted teacher Peter O'Brien started work as the only teacher at a bush school in Weabonga, two days' travel by train and mail car from Armidale.
Peter was only 20 years old and had never before lived away from his home in Sydney. He'd had some teaching experience, but nothing to prepare him for the monumental challenge of being solely responsible for the education of 18 students, ranging in age from 5 to 15 years old. With few lesson plans, scant teaching materials, a wide range of curious minds and ages to prepare for, Peter was daunted by the enormity of the task ahead.
Because...
✦ Subjects
New South Wales