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Title A name given to the resource Lygon Street Building, University High, Parkville, Melbourne Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photographer unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy <a href="http://www.unihigh.vic.edu.au/index.php/our-community/alumni/history">University High Alumni</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966 https://www.schoolingmemories.net/files/original/4d19b8f41d058fd2223496631154f1cb.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/738466ee519d71c61cc6a1d3bd3aae37.jpg d45eb60f09b098277c514963973e36fa 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 Schools & Technical Highs, including Camberwell High at bottom left Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lyle Fowler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE563323">State Library Victoria, H92.20/4036</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c1951 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 c1930s–1940s Education Primary: Not stated Secondary: Camberwell High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1940s–1950s) Secondary: University High School, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria (1940s–1950s) Tertiary: Melbourne Teachers College (1950s) Tertiary: University of Melbourne Occupation Teacher: Mont Albert Central School, Melbourne, Victoria (1950s) Teacher: Brunswick Girls’ School, Melbourne, Victoria Teacher: Montmorency High School, Melbourne, Victoria (1970s) Teacher: Albert Park Central, Melbourne, Victoria Biographical Text Helen was born in Redcliffs, northern Victoria, and is the youngest of three children. The family moved to Lancefield during World War II and in 1945 they moved to West Preston, where her father was a vicar. A little later they moved to Blackburn and Helen attended Camberwell High, before finishing her secondary schooling at University High School. She was accepted into the latter due to her good results in the Leaving Certificate and she remembers that education, particularly for girls, was highly valued in her family. After completing her Matriculation, she went on to study teaching on a studentship, support that she recalls enabled many of her contemporaries to gain further education, as their families were not able to support them financially while at university. Her first teaching position was at Mont Albert Central School in the 1950s, before she moved to Brunswick Girls’ School to teach English, Geography and History, as well as some Maths ‘because they were short of arithmetic teachers’. She remembers that ‘you sort of pitched in and taught whatever’. After having time off to have a family, Helen went back to university to finish her Arts degree and took up teaching again in the 1970s at Montmorency High School. She remembers the ’70s as a very exciting time in education: ‘you had that feeling that people were sort of enthusiastic to do things’. Helen had a significant role in the teaching of Social Studies and led the development of the Community Involvement elective. She engaged students through film, guest speakers and excursions and reflects that ‘they were the most amazing experiences for those kids, that was the sort of teaching I liked, being able to facilitate that, where you were widening kids’ horizons – shocking them a bit, but making them think about what’s going on in the world’. Birthplace Redcliffs, Victoria Image credits 1. Lygon Street Building, University High, Parkville, Melbourne, 1966. Photographer unknown. Courtesy <a href="http://www.unihigh.vic.edu.au/index.php/our-community/alumni/history">University High Alumni</a><br />2. 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><br />3. Schools &amp; Technical Highs, including Camberwell High at bottom left (detail), c1951. Photographer Lyle Fowler. <a href="https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE563323">State Library Victoria, H92.20/4036</a> 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 Helen Symons Students_1940s Students_1950s Teachers_1950s Teachers_1960s Teachers_1970s