Key information
- Address:
- 2 Church Street, Briagolong 3860
- Opened:
- 1 October 1871
- School type:
- Primary
- School number:
- 1117
- Other names:
- Briagolong School, Briagolong Common School, Briagolong State School
- Email:
- briagolong.ps@education.vic.gov.au
- Phone:
- 03 5145 5260
- Status:
- Open
Where this school’s records are kept
Digital records are kept at the school. To request access, contact the school directly.
Permanent hard copy records (such as enrolment registers, class photographs, yearbooks and school council papers) are held in the Department of Education’s archive.
To request access, contact the department’s records team.
Long-term temporary hard copy records (such as student health and wellbeing files and staff personnel files) are kept at the school.
To request access, contact the school directly.
Contact the Department of Education records team
If you’re not sure whether the records you need are digital or hard copy, the records team can check for you.
Email: archives.records@education.vic.gov.au
Phone: 1800 359 140
The history of Briagolong Primary School
1871
Briagolong opened as a common school in 1871. It replaced Rural School No. 71, Briagolong. The first head teacher was William F. Parker, who previously taught at the rural school.
1873
The school became a state school in 1873.
Margaret Fitzgerald was the first teacher of the state school.
1915
A weatherboard classroom and sloyd room were added in 1915. Sloyd rooms were used for woodworking.
1921
100 students attended the school in 1921 and the sloyd room was used as a classroom.
1937
The school closed temporarily when a case of polio developed.
1966
The school's recorder band was successful at the Sale Eisteddfod in 1966.
1970
The school was renamed Briagolong Primary School in 1970.
2022
Briagolong Primary School is still in operation.
Find more information about this school
The Public Records Office (PROV) is the archive of Victoria's State and local government. They look after some of our oldest school records, and we can use these records to help us understand what school life used to be like.
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