Department of English
January 1913 - August 1918
Editress of PHS Magazine

Graduated Bachelor of Arts from Sydney University in May 1905.
Forged a career as an Engineering Draughtsman from 1905-1911.
Diploma in Education at Sydney Teacher's College - 1912.

Joined the original staff of Parramatta High School in 1913

From the Parramatta High School Magazine, Vol.1, No.6, December 1918, page 140:
"On Friday, August 30th, Miss Mott also left us. She has quitted teaching to enter upon a new sphere of life, and we wish her every happiness. She was presented with two vases of Australian pottery and a lovely bunch of flowers, as a token of the esteem of the staff and scholars. As Mrs Vance she paid a welcome, though short, visit to the school on Thursday, November 14..."

	Miss Mott in the 1913 staff photograph.
	Around 1900, Miss Mott looked like this.
	In her first year of teaching, as ever and will always be, Miss Mott was assessed on her abilities as a scribe - specifically on the blackboard. You may view the results here.
	Click here to view Miss Mott's 1C, 1915.
	During WWI troops were permitted to send these extraordinarily regulated postcards back home. Miss Mott received this one in 1916.
	Miss Mott had, in her effects, Stewart & Company's Penny Spelling Book. As a contribution towards the "declining standards" debate, the entire text of this booklet is presented here.

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Sydney Morning Herald

March 1879 - (issue # 12,783) - Page 1:

That's all very well, but what does it have to do with Parramatta High?
Look below at the tree, tracing three generations of PHS lineage, 1913 to the present.

Colin Sydney RALPH can be seen, second from the left, front row, here. (1934)
The last individual on that tree can be seen here or he can be emailed here.

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