NSW Correspondence School

27 children were initially enrolled and by October of that year a teacher, WA Carter, was appointed to run the school. The service rapidly expanded and, due to lack of space, was divided into four separate schools. These were eventually consolidated under one Principal in the former Blackfriars Public School in Chippendale.

By the end of 1924 there were almost 2,300 students enrolled. The teaching method involved the correspondence pupils working in three separate workbooks that circulated over five-day periods. At any one time, one workbook was being marked by the teacher, a second was in the post and a third was with the student.

A school magazine, The Outpost, was first published in 1935 as a'connecting link between the pupils, ex-pupils, parents, supervisors, and the School, and each other ... with the School, its activities and its social services, as the focal point.'In December 1990, under a four-year Rural Education Plan to improve educational services for isolated and country children, the Correspondence School closed, to be replaced in 1991 by 17 Distance Education Centres.

Extracted from Agency information in the State Archives catalogue