Item 351 - "Teacher Training at Wagga College, 1964" [16mm film]

One 16mm film. Running time 14 minutes and 36 seconds.

Footage includes:

• Aerial views of College campus and surrounding area (especially Mount Austin and Turvey Park), the Mary Gilmore Gates, rose gardens and a gardener, and construction of new lecture block (would later become the preschool).
• College activities, such as residential areas and student life in the residences, students in the Blakemore Library, a geography lesson, a trophy presentation ceremony with Principal Hale in the Auditorium, drama, soccer, kitchen staff serving dinner, students in the dining room, students catching a bus to climb The Rock, and sailing on Lake Albert.
• Practice Teaching, such as aerial views of Turvey Park Demonstration School, college students observing classes (includes primary students dressed in costume during a history or geography class, then students dancing in the quadrangle, a college student teaching a class at Narrandera, students catching buses to attend practice teaching, children dancing outside a country school.
• End of year activities, such as a Graduation or Debutante Ball, packing up the residences, saying goodbye and catching the train at Wagga Wagga Railway Station.
  [14m 36s]

OPEN to public access.

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