Moresland Special School was a private residential school for children with disabilities located at North Springwood during the 1930s. Its principal, Miss Marva Temple, a Catholic teacher who had strong support in local Catholic networks, later founded St Thomas More’s School in Linden.
Marva Temple was highly educated and an activist around the education of children thought to be mentally deficient or subnormal. She arrived in Australia around 1928, after pursuing an education overseas. She had a radio programme on 2BL’s women’s sessions about ‘training the child’ and dealing with problems such as stammering. She appears to have begun working for Moresland Special School soon afterwards. She left in the mid-1930s to set up St Thomas More’s School.
From
c. 1933
To
c. 1936
Alternative Names
Moresland Special School for Retarded Children
c. 1933 - c. 1936
Moresland Special School located at North Springwood, New South Wales (Building State unknown)