Australian Progressive Schools IV. Brighton-Le-Sands

A longer and fully documented account of Brighton will be found in Petersen R. C. , “Experimental Schools and Educational Experiments in Australia, 1906–1948”; Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Sydney, 1968, Chapter 13. The Archives Office of New South Wales preserves the originals of most of the documents used to write the history of Brighton: they will be found in the School Files, in Boxes P2466 (1914–15), P2544 (1916–17), P2624 (1918–19), P2710 (1920–21), P2790 (1922–23), P2835 (1924–5).

Original in Archives Office of New South Wales, P2790, letter from Brighton-le-Sands Progress Association, 18/1/1915.

For a description and plans, elevations, etc., see Taylor Florence M. , “Australian School Architecture, its Growth and Development.” Building, 21, 125, 12/1/1918, 84–5, 87–8.

Kindergarten Union of New South Wales, Reports, 1913–22, passim..

Simpson Martha M. Report on the Montessori Methods of Education. Sydney: Government Printer, 1914.

Blackfriars School Files in Archives Office, Box P2538 (1916–17), 61202: 19/7/16, “Blackfriars: Special Inspection of the Primary Montessori Class.”.

The memorandum is printed by Crane A. R. Walker W. G. , Peter Board, Melbourne: A.C.E.R., 1957, on pp. 192–5.

“An Experiment in Public School Instruction.” The Sydney Mail, 16, 398 (new series), 17/11/1919, 14.

The Education Gazette (N.S.W.), 9, 2, 1/2/1915, 17–22. The speech was delivered in Adelaide and was first printed in The Education Gazette (S.A.) 30, 339, 17/11/1914.

Findlay J. J. The School. London: Williams & Norgate, Home University Library, 1911, 206–8.

Board P. “The War and Education.” The Education Gazette (N.S.W.), 10, 2, 1/2/1916, 37.

Board P. “The War and Education.” The Education Gazette (N.S.W.), 11, 3, 1/3/1917, 51.

The Sydney Mail article referred to above; and Fox Benson F. “Peter Board System of Education.” The Ladies' Sphere, 2, 9, 15/11/19, 18–19.

Fox Benson, 18.

Fox Benson, 18.

Fox Benson, 18, 19.

Brighton School Files in Archives Office, Box P2624, 13857: 22/2/1918.

Sydney Mail, 15.

Sydney Mail, 15.

Original in Archives Office of New South Wales, P2790, 89787: 15/12/22, Riley to Dawson.

Findlay J. J. “Some Principles of Educational Reform.” Education Gazette (N.S.W.), 9, 2, 1/2/1915, 21–22.