Key information
- Address:
- 10-20 Hodgins Road, Hastings 3915
- Opened:
- 25 April 1872
- School type:
- Primary
- School number:
- 1098
- Other names:
- Tyabb School, Hastings Common School, Hastings State School
- Email:
- hastings.ps@education.vic.gov.au
- Phone:
- 03 5979 1517
- Status:
- Open
Location of enrolment records
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 Hastings Primary School
1870s
Hastings opened as a common school in 1872. It replaced Tyabb School. The head teacher was John Bettsworth Flemyng.
The school became a state school between 1873 and 1878.
1913
Two brick classrooms were added to the existing schoolhouse.
1920
Hastings Primary School ca. 1920 to 1954. Source: Rose Stereograph Co. and the State Library of Victoria 1954
The number of students was growing. Two classrooms, a staffroom and a storeroom were built.
1968
Three more classrooms, a new staffroom and a toilet block were added in October 1968.
1970
The school was renamed Hastings Primary School in 1970.
2022
Hastings 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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