Korunye School

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Type of organisation:	Government
Town or locality:	Korunye
Date established:	"{{{Date approximate}}}" is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. 1897
Ceased operation:	"{{{Date approximate2}}}" is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. "{{{Date approximate}}}" is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. 1966
Established by:	Mrs Thomas Verner
Business or purpose:	School

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The first primary school was started at Paddy's Bridge by the efforts of Mrs Thomas Verner. There were many children in the Paddy's Bridge area and Mr and Mrs Verner offered, if a teacher could be provided by the Education Department, a cottage on their property for the venue. All the families in the district supported her efforts and in 1897 Paddy's Bridge School was established. Miss Blanche O. Ayliffe was the first teacher.

In 1900, a stone school residence and schoolroom combined was erected by the Education Department on land donated by Mr Arthur Pratt. The cost of the building was £498, 6 shillings and 6 pence. Children attended the school from both sides of the river, German Town Hill Road, Reeves Plains, as far south as Mr Jack Secomb's, Mr Len Simpkin's and the Mallala road. In 1921 the name 'Paddy's Bridge' was changed to Korunye as was the bridge and railway station. When the school closed in 1966 the pupils were taken daily by Education Department bus to the Mallala school. The school still stands but is now a private residence.

Paddy's Bridge School Records

1897-98	Blanche Ayliffe	1927-29	Martha C. Retchford
1900-02	William J. Robertson	1930	B.J. Kearney
1903	Lizzie Forsyth	1931	Cyril G. Willis
1904	Jessie C. Miers	1932-38	Thomas Partridge
1905	Julius A. W. Kayser	1939-40	Ernest K. Stevens
1906	Mary E. Ahle	1941-44	John D. Hutley
1907-08	Isidore H.P. Callier	1944	Ivor H. Jury, RAAF
1909	Julius A.W. Kayser	1945-48	John D. Hutley
1910	Lillian B. Hoar	1948	Margaret Kitto
1911-13	Mary A. Elwood	1949-52	Frank S. C. Day
1914-17	Mary Bowler	1953-57	Brian Koerner
1918-19	Gladys Lomman	1958-59	Vytautus Patupas
1920	Elizabeth T. M. O'Brien Elizabeth Morgan	1960-62	Edward J. Worrell
1921-23	Hartel O. Robinson	1963	T.J. Weste
1924-25	William R. Burman	1964	Peter Buckley
1926	Dorothy Ashton	1964-66	Grantley Sims

Memories of Korunye School

M says:

I was one of the kids at Korunye Primary when it finally closed. I think there were only 6 or seven of us left. Apart from Reading, Writing and Arithmatic, one of my duties as a primary school student was to sometimes turn on the electric stove in the schoolmaster's residence and warm up his lunch ! This did not prevent me getting the cane from time to time.

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Memories of Korunye School

N says:

Korunye School children travelled to school on bicycle,on horseback and on foot from the surrounding farms. My husband recalled the boys sometimes holding horseraces in the paddock during their lunch hour. The annual Concert was always a big event in the school year and was held in the Redbanks Hall.

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