Page from Register of Pupils 1903

May 1903 — The first school opens with forty pupils in attendance. Miss Tabb is the first teacher.
Thompson is assured by the home secretary that as soon as a suitable building is constructed, a teacher and all necessary requites will be provided. The building is hardly conductive to learning, … a bark humpy with ground floor and wooden stools around it.
The first teacher, Miss Tabb finds the primitive conditions intolerable, resigning before the year ends. The school does not re-open until July 1904. The new teacher, Miss Marion Kennett is faced with the task of teaching forty pupils with only twenty-four slates, twenty-four reading books, a broken blackboard and very little chalk cramped into a rough bush shelter.