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Cricket match at King's School 1898

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Cricket match at King's School 1898

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State Library of New South Wales

[a622006 / PXA 1232/1, f.6]

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Education

Education in Sydney started with Aboriginal society and the everyday learning and formal initiation of young Aboriginal people. Institutionalised education came with the Europeans, who first created schools for convicts' children, and later for the children of the new gentry and middle classes. Sydney became the centre of education in the colony, with a university, and eventually in 1880, universal education throughout the suburbs of the growing city.

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The King's School

Early independent boys' school in Parramatta.

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Parramatta

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Western suburb built on the land of the Burramattagal people. Sydney's second European settlement, it began as a government farm in 1788 and has many heritage listed sites. It is now the commercial hub of Greater Western Sydney.