The following is a work in progress. The purpose of this page is to act as a repository for information, memories and experiences to do with the school over its entire history.

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Cleveland Street Inspection book. Here is the an extract from the 1914 Annual Inspection entry.

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Honour Roll - World War 1

1,180 teachers & staff served

147 were killed

(There were over 400,000 Australians serving in World War 1, of which 59,000 were killed and 167,000 wounded. The total Australian population at the time was 4 million.)

Lest We Forget

First image: teachers killed and wounded in World War 1.

Second image: the teaching staff of 1911.

A school publication with a long and illustrious tradition.

Here is the 1972 version.

School badge, circa 1970s

(badge courtesy The Hon. John Hatzistergos, MLC)

Sir Garfield Barwick: Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.

T. B. Rolin, T. S. Holden, D. Mc- Philip: Judges.

Dr. C. A. Coghlan: an eminent barrister.

Bishop Burgmann: Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn.

Dr. H. S. Wyndham: Director-General of Education, N.S.W.

Bert Oldfield: Australian TestCricketer

Charlie Macartney: Australian TestCricketer

Alan Kippax: Australian TestCricketer

Charlie Kelleway: Australian TestCricketer

Len Richardson: lst Grade Cricket, Waverley

Bob Stanton: Resident professional golfer at the Mississippi Country Club in the U.S.A.

Johnny Warren: Vice-Captain of the school, 1960. Captained Australia in Soccer

Nick Shehadie: Australian Wallaby

Alan Norley: Randwick lst Grade Rugby Union

Graeme Stevens: Drummoyne lst Grade Rugby Union, afterwards transferred to Rugby League

Claude Williams, the Brannighan brothers, Darryl Brampton: All played lst Grade Rugby League for South Sydney. Ray Brannighan played for the Australian Kangaroos

Letter to the Principal of Cleveland Street by Bert Oldfield on the death of Test Cricketer and fellow old boy, Charlie Macartney as reproduced in "The Echo".

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Cleveland Street Intensive English Centre was opened in 1977 by the then Minister for Education, the Hon. Eric Bedford, Minister for Education.

Some of the 10,000 ESL students who have attended Cleveland Street in its first 20 years.

From left to right: Bobbie Hoskins*, Rosalind Strong, Jim Hopson and NSW Ethnic Affairs Commissioner, Mr Stephan Kerkyasharian at Cleveland Street IEC 20th Anniversary

*Bobbie Hoskins died in 2002. She is sadly missed. Bobbie was born and raised in Britain. Her father, however, attended Cleveland Street as a student. Below is an award he received in 1928 for swimming.