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Sier’s ability to gather talented staff around him and his willing reception of new ideas won the praise of his teachers. The establishment of Yabberstick, the school newspaper, is a good example. Convinced that the project had merit, Sier encouraged it and supported it financially.53 Mirimbah, the school’s country centre at Mansfield, was another. The school also experimented with a number of pedagogical programmes, among them General Studies, creative workshops, equal opportunity, special classes for maladjusted children, English as a second language and the establishment of the Princes Hill School Park Centre.54
Olive Hamilton, Senior Mistress at Princes Hill High School, searches the ruins of one of the classrooms, 1970. Photograph courtesy of the Age, 9/2/1970
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