Konongwootong North SS 4362

The settlement of returned soldiers on Konongwootong North and Wootong Vale Estates created a need for a school. Early in 1927 G. W. LAMB, a settler at Wootong Vale, called a meeting of the settlers in the Wootong Vale-North Konongwootong area with the object of obtaining a school. At the time the children travelled up to 6 miles to attend neighbouring schools. As a result of this meeting, Konongwootong North School opened on 16^th September 1927 in a room of the home of TROETH. The room measured 14ftx18ft. HT Miss DURNAN enrolled 24 pupils. The original Committee Chairman and Correspondent was Geo. W. LAMB, James Joseph BURKE, exit student from Bendigo Teachers College, was appointed HT in 1928. In 1929 the school was moved into its new building on the present site of 3 acres. The building was officially opened by W. SLATER MLA, on 16th of September of that year. BURKE remained HT of the school until 1940 and is remembered with respect and affection. Evidence of his interest in gardening remains in the ANA prize awarded in 1933, and in the many trees in the schoolground. From 1927-69 the school had 16 HT’s and several SM’s.

Source: "Vision & Realisation", Vol 2, Education Department of Victoria.

Students Enrolled in the first 5 years (1927-1931)
Roll Number	Surame	1st Names	Year of Enrolment
01	MARNEY	Tita	1927
02	MARNEY	Robert	1927
03	MARNEY	Alice	1927
04	MARTIN	Albert Eric	1927
05	MARTIN	Ivan Russell	1927
06	MARTIN	Cyril Alfred	1927
07	MARTIN	Edward Lloyd	1927
08	NEPEAN	Albert	1927
09	NEPEAN	Edward	1927
10	SARGEANT	Verna	1927
11	HOPE	Margaret Enid	1927
12	HOPE	Catherine E	1927
13	LAMB	Douglas Wilfred	1927
14	BARTLETT	Denis F	1927
15	WILSON	Joyce Eileen	1927
16	McCALLUM	Roma Irene	1927
17	SARGEANT	Hazel	1927
18	SARGEANT	Herbert	1928
19	HOPE	Alan Thomas	1928
20	McCALLUM	Duncan	1928
21	LAMB	Elsie Joan	1928
22	JACKSON	Mary	1929
23	PLUNKETT	Eunice	1929
24	PLUNKETT	Percy	1929
25	BOA	Winifred	1929
26	MARTIN	Rene Myrtle	1930
27	MARTIN	Ronald C	1930
28	LAMB	Doris Minnie	1930
29	ROBINSON	Ethelwyn C	1930
30	ROBINSON	Henry Stuart	1930
31	HADDEN	Melba May	1930
32	JACKSON	Clarence	1930
33	BARTLETT	Shirley	1931
34	BROWN	Annie Carmel	1931
35	McCALLUM	Grace	1931
36	SUTTON	Sylvia	1931
37	MARTIN	Mervyn Jack	1931
38	McDONALD	Ian Maxwell	1931
39	WATSON	Edna S	1931
40	BAILEY	Albert J	1931
41	HOPE	Duncan Stuart	1931
42	McLEAN	John	1931