| Keyword Search >> Series Details >> Agency DetailsThe first teacher and director was Nancy Barnes (nee Brumbie) who was also the first qualified Aboriginal preschool teacher in Australia.
Miss Janet Weir of Alice Springs, who was awarded a Scholarship in 1956, completed her training at the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College and was appointed Assistant Teacher at the Ida Standley Pre-School in February 1959.
The preschool is named after Ida Standley who held the first teaching position in the first school in Alice Springs/Stuart, Northern Territory, from 1914-1928. In 1929, she received the Member of the Order of the British Empire, services to child welfare in Central Australia. Ida Standley retired from teaching in 1929 and died in Sydney in 1948.
'Functions and Responsibilities of the Welfare Branch
Broadly speaking, the functions of the Welfare Branch are, under the direction of the Administrator, to provide and administer, native, child, and community welfare services (including pre-school education) throughout the Northern Territory. This means in effect that the Welfare Branch is responsible in the Northern Territory for those services normally provided and administered by State Departments concerned with child, social, family, and native welfare.
These functions are given legislative expression in a number of ordinances, the chief of which are the Welfare, Ward Employment and Child Welfare Ordinances.'
[Welfare Branch, Northern Territory Administration, Annual Report 1958/1959, page 2Superior Agencies
Date Range Title Agency Id 1959 - 1970 Welfare Branch 695 1971 - 1973 Northern Territory Education Branch 648 1973 - 1978 Northern Territory Education Division 649 Inventory of Series
Series Id Series Title Series Date Range Number of Units Public Access Location NTRS 4820 Student roll books 1975 - 2003 3 Agreement Pending Alice Springs