When the school opened in 1878 there were over 100 pupils attending the school. Before road widening the school was situated on the corner of Mount Duneed and Torquay Roads (south-west corner). The first school in this location was destroyed by fire in 1944. Former head teachers AT Abercrombie (1878-1882) T Job (1882-1889) HP Bechervaise (1889-1891) W Errey (1891-1896) VP Nolan (1897-1900) WG Catron (1900-05) OE Farrer (1905-09) AV Deeble (1910-11) CW Bradhurst (1913-16) TJ Macartney (1916-20) JE Marshall (1920-24) AL Debney (1924-26) F Hope (1926-28) EME Clinton (1927) JT D'Helin (1928) H McGregor (1928-29) As there were so few pupils at Mount Duneed and Freshwater Creek schools Mr McGregor held 2 days at one school and three at the other alternating each week (1929-34) GA Law (1934) GR Mead (1935) MR Kent (1937) HM Collins (1939) The school closed for four years. About this time a local resident remembered frequently borrowing children (transfers and all) from her sister in Melbourne to keep the school opened. MT Simms 1943-44) JE Colleshaw (1944) O Tryhorn and J Eltham (1944-48) JW France (1948-54) H Thornley and GF Bailey (1954) D Darby and GS Stuart (1954-57) AP Anderson (1958-59) DB McKinnon (1959-63) GF Rafferty (1963-66) JH Scarlett (1955-67) MC Thompson (1967-68) L Sealey (1968) JF Edward (968-69) MC Thompson (1l969-72) PF Gaylard (1972-77) JL Wilson (1977-78) An arbour day held once a year, enabled each pupil to plant a pine tree in the school plantation next to the school. In one year in the 1930s only one pupil planted a tree so the plantation was taken over by Grovedale State School. Mount Duneed again controlled the plantation when the number of pupils increased. The school shifted to Williams road in 1992 when Torquay Road was widened. | |
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