https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/6b2c662b5f02407baac2086f106c6dba.jpg dccfaf7ae807f8a175639212c596e48e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource High School, Ballarat Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Victorian Railways Photographer Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/97518" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H91.330/1155</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/4a38f844c0ba71e167c824c344a28083.jpg d3d11fb8691984287daa0c03a44f85d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The High School, Ballarat, Vic. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rose Stereograph Co. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/62965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Library Victoria, H32492/2521 </a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1920–1954 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/f0d9fe2beab444c082927c7daa720224.jpg cf7cb261a7922859c4f05d00a7a8e86c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melbourne Teachers College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1950s https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/386f4949d0a47ebd6b4e3c619e6efe0a.jpg 210de21252e97feaeb543ec756a89a4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource After Lecture in Old Arts, 1st Term (interviewee not pictured) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblumaic/imu.php?request=display&port=45208&id=f98e&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details">University of Melbourne Archives, 1986.0200.00002</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1953 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/71a0c32b7f528ca02970dff8e63e63ee.jpg 1ead8b5978828090275d28fef7d1622e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northcote High School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Graeme Butler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Northcote Conservation Study sheet 07 19_1982 via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031">Flickr</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/4b0efd3ed3c7211f6778691e4140784d.jpg c4c1e1f8206ece5b5e44af0c7deab44d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bowbrook School Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived London Metropolitan Archives, SC_PHL_02_0350_67_5540 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1965 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schooling Memories Person An individual. Birth Date 1940 Education Primary: Invermay State School number 882 (late 1940s) Secondary: Ballarat High School (1950s) Tertiary: University of Melbourne (1958–1960) Occupation Geelong High School Bowbrook School for Girls, London Reservoir High School Northcote High School (1973–1989, 1997–2004) St. John’s Greek Orthodox College Preston (1990–1996) Biographical Text Robert was born in 1940 and grew up just outside Ballarat on a farm that had been in the family for a number of generations. He attended the one-teacher Invermay primary school and remembers the teacher fondly, a man ‘to whom I am really indebted in many, many respects … he inculcated in us humane values’. He went on to Ballarat High School, initially boarding with his mother’s aunts, then returning to the family farm after his father’s death in 1955, from whence he cycled eight miles each day to school, after helping milk the cows. He enjoyed his time at Ballarat High, being placed in the ‘professional stream’ and studying history, English, literature and Latin for his Matriculation. He notes the high academic standards of his education at Ballarat High School and comments on the quality of teachers, particularly his ‘outstanding Junior Latin teacher’, who shared aspects of his work with refugees and migrants. Robert suggests the teacher’s students ‘were sort of imbued with a very early notion of multiculturalism’ through this experience. Robert attended the University of Melbourne, studying Arts Honours in English and History and being supported on a secondary studentship before completing his tertiary studies with a Diploma of Education. His first teaching assignment was at Geelong High School for three years, after which he spent the next three years in Europe doing an assortment of work, including teaching in London. When he returned to Australia he taught at Reservoir High School and then became Head of English at Northcote High School in 1973. He taught there for fifteen years, then moved to St. John’s Greek Orthodox College in Preston for six years before, returning to Northcote High School in 1997, and retiring in 2004. Of his own teaching career Robert has many reflections and comparisons. At Northcote, he and some other teachers started to adapt the curriculum to suit the needs of their students (particularly the large Greek population at Northcote) and include more Australian literary content. He also states that it is in History that he noticed a ‘major change’ over time. He believes that the ‘inclusion and acknowledgement of the Aboriginal History of Australia is important and beneficial and only right’ and that the breadth of History offered to students is much better than when he was at school. Image credits 1. High School, Ballarat, 1947. Victorian Railways Photographer. <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/97518" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H91.330/1155</a> 2. The High School, Ballarat, 1920–1954. Rose Stereograph Co. <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/62965" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Library Victoria, H32492/2521</a> 3. Melbourne Teachers College, c1950s. Photographer unknown. <a href="http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER2015093%C2%A0">State Library Victoria, H2009.153/17</a> 4. After Lecture Old Arts, 1st Term (interviewee not pictured), 1953. Photographer unknown. <a href="https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/umblumaic/imu.php?request=display&port=45208&id=f98e&flag=ecatalogue&offset=0&count=default&view=details">University of Melbourne Archives, 1986.0200.00002</a> 5. Northcote High School, 1982. Photographer Graeme Butler. Northcote Conservation Study sheet 07 19_1982 via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849945%40N02/27481724031">Flickr</a> 6. Bowbrook School, 1965. Photographer unknown. London Metropolitan Archives, SC_PHL_02_0350_67_5540 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert Bridges Students_1940s Students_1950s Students_1960s Teachers_1970s Teachers_1980s Teachers_1990s Teachers_2000s