Clontarf was established in Manning by the Christian Brothers in 1901. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found the Christian Brothers were amongst the worst perpetrators of abuse nationally, that the relevant Christian Brothers Provincial Council was aware of allegations of abuse from the 1930s onwards, and that between 1947 and…
Castledare was established by the Christian Brothers in Queen’s Park (later, Wilson) on the site of the former Castledare Special School. It began as a residential primary school for boys aged from around 6 to 12 years, including boys who were wards of the State and boys who were placed privately (by family or others),…
The Carnarvon Mission was established by the Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board Inc. in 1945. It provided accommodation for Aboriginal families and access to education and training for Aboriginal children. There were 138 children in 1959. The Mission’s name was changed to Ingada Village around 1975 and numbers of children fell from 84…
Beagle Bay Mission was established by the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappists) in 1895. It accommodated Aboriginal babies, children and young people up to age 20. From 1901 the Pallotines were involved in running the Mission as part of the Catholic Diocese of Broome, and from 1907, the Sisters of St John of…
Hagley Farm Primary School replaced Hagley Farm School, in about 1976. It has a mixed dairy farm of 63 acres and provides day trips and camps for primary school children.
Hagley State School, which was half a mile from the centre of Hagley in northern Tasmania, opened in 1855. In 1936, it was the site of Hagley Area School, which, shortly after that became Hagley Farm School. Sir Richard Dry, a Premier of Tasmania who owned the nearby Quamby Estate, donated the land for the…
The Sight Saving School opened in March 1940 on the grounds of the Elizabeth Street Practicing School. Its purpose was to prevent children with partial sight from losing it and to teach them Braille. The school closed around 1991. The Sight Saving School evolved out of the school for children who were blind at the…
Dominic College, a Catholic school in Glenorchy, was formed in 1973 by an amalgamation of three schools, including Savio College, formerly Boys’ Town, which was a children’s Home and school that received child migrants in the early 1950s. Dominic College has a strong old boys’ network that includes the former child migrants. In October 2012,…
Savio College, run by the Salesians of Don Bosco, replaced Boys’ Town in 1956. It was in New Town. Boys’ Town had been a Catholic Home and school, that received child migrants from Britain. Two of the migrants remained at Savio with the last one leaving in 1959. Savio also accepted wards of state. In…
Wingfield School opened in the 1940s. It was for the children who lived at Wingfield House. Initially it was located between the Tasmanian Sanatorium and the Women’s Division on the grounds of St John’s Park, New Town. In 1957, it moved to two new classrooms built to the rear and east of Wingfield House. Wingfield…
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