Glenferrie Primary School

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Glenferrie Primary School
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Location
Glenferrie Primary School
78 - 98 Manningtree Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates 37°49′27″S145°02′02″E / 37.82409°S 145.03375°E / -37.82409; 145.03375
Information
Former nameManningtree Road School
Type Public
Established1875
PrincipalTanya Gurney
Years offered Prep–Year 6
Enrolment245 (2025)
Website https://glenferrieps.vic.edu.au/

Glenferrie Primary School is a heritage-listed public co-educational primary school located in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1875, the school opened in its current location 1877. [1] It has also been known as the Hawthorn School, Manningtree Road School and Central School. [2] In 1924 the school name was officially changed to Glenferrie State School. [3] It is administered by the Victorian Department of Education with an enrolment of 245 students as of 2025. [4] It was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 20 August 1982 for its historical and architectural significance to the state of Victoria. [1]

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History

The school first opened in the Wesleyan Church Hall in Burwood Road in on 22 February 1875 with 300 pupils initially enrolled. [2] [5] The school moved to its current location in March 1877. [1] [6] [7] To accommodate increasing enrolments extensions to the school were made in 1881 and 1887 with enrolments of nearly 900 by 1888. [1] An infant school, consisting of six classrooms, a hall and sewered toilets, was opened in 1907. [8] [9]

The handcraft-based sloyd system was introduced to the school around 1907 and was initially housed in the infant school. Sloyd teachers were trained at the school and pupils came from neighbouring schools. [1] An exhibition of sloyd handworks was held at the school in 1910 at which time there were 100 pupils enrolled in the sloyd class. [10] [11] A dedicated, stand-alone sloyd room was built in 1924 and opened by the then Minister of Education, Sir Alexander Peacock. [12] [1]

The school is historically significant and is a largely intact example of late nineteenth and early twentieth century school architecture [1] The original building is one of the most intact Gothic style schools in Victoria, the sloyd room is one of the few remaining in the state, and the Federation arched shelter shed is possibly the only one remaining in the state. [1]

The youngest Australian known to have died in the first World War, James Martin, attended the school between 1910 and 1915 with one of the school houses named after him. [13] [14] [15] Part of the school was turned into a hospital during the influenza epidemic of 1919 with room for up to 100 beds. [1] [16]

In 1920, a needlework school was opened drawing pupils from surrounding schools and in 1938 a rural training school was opened. [1] The sloyd centre, needlework centre, rural school and a cookery school (that had relocated from Swinburne Technical College) were all still in operation in 1969. [1]

In 2014, the school was the subject of media attention with a report of an eight-year-old girl being attacked in the grounds of the school while waiting for her parents. [17] The report was subsequently found to have been false. [18]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "GLENFERRIE PRIMARY SCHOOL (PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.1508)". vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Our School". Glenferrie Primary School. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  3. ↑ McWilliam, Gwen (1975). A School for Hawthorn. Hawthorn. p. 99. ISBN   0959728201.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ "Statistics for Victorian Schools". Department of Education. February 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  5. ↑ McWilliam, Gwen (1975). A School for Hawthorn. Hawthorn. p. 15. ISBN   0959728201.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ "Glenferrie Primary School - Number 1508". Victorian Schools Directory. 21 May 2025. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  7. ↑ "UPPER HAWTHORN STATE SCHOOL". Age. 1 March 1877. p. 3. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  8. ↑ "NEW INFANT SCHOOL OPENED AT GLENFERRIE". Herald. 15 July 1907. p. 6. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  9. ↑ Peel, Victoria M.; Zion, Deborah; Yule, Jane (1993). A history of Hawthorn. Carlton: Melbourne Univ. Press [u.a.] ISBN   978-0-522-84507-5.
  10. ↑ "SCHOOLS' EXHIBITION". Weekly Times. 19 November 1910. p. 33. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  11. ↑ McWilliam, Gwen (1975). A School for Hawthorn. Hawthorn. pp. 37, 37. ISBN   0959728201.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ↑ "GLENFERRIE SCHOOL. Reopened by Sir A. Peacock". Age. 18 February 1925. p. 13. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  13. ↑ "Encyclopedia | Australian War Memorial". www.awm.gov.au. Archived from the original on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  14. ↑ Hill, Anthony (2001). Soldier boy: the true story of Jim Martin the youngest Anzac. Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin Books. ISBN   978-0-14-100330-6.
  15. ↑ "Hawthorn's James Martin brave beyond his years at Gallipoli". Herald Sun Progress Leader. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  16. ↑ "INFLUENZA HOSPITAL ESTABLISHED AT HAWTHORN". Reporter. 21 February 1919. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
  17. ↑ "Eight-year-old girl attacked at a primary school playground". ABC News. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  18. ↑ "Girl, 8, made up Glenferrie Primary School assault story". Herald Sun. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
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