Key information
- Address:
- Burwood East 3151
- Opened:
- 6 June 1908
- Closed:
- 1 January 1986
- School type:
- Special
- School number:
- 3588
- Status:
- Closed
Details about the Tally Ho Special School and the Tally Ho Boys' Training Farm
The school opened to educate children who were in state care at the Tally Ho Boys' Training Farm. The training farm had been set up in 1903 by the Wesley Central Mission to train boys from city 'slums' in farm work.
Some Aboriginal children from the Northern Territory were residents at Tally Ho Boys' Training Farm during the 1950s. These boys were sent to Tally Ho in Victoria under a scholarship scheme of the Northern Territory Administration. The NT Welfare Branch set up a scholarship scheme which enabled Aboriginal young people to be homed and schooled at locations interstate. Tally Ho was one of these locations.
In 1957 Tally Ho Boys' Training Farm changed its admission policy. Tally Ho would no longer take voluntary admissions and would concentrate on “difficult offenders” referred from Turana Reception Centre.
The Find and Connect website has information on the Tally Ho Boys' Training Farm.
Location of records
This school is closed. Contact the Department of Education records team for information about records from this school.
Email: archives.records@education.vic.gov.au
Phone: 1800 359 140
The Public Record Office Victoria holds:
- Pupils register 1908 to 1945
- Pupils register 1968 to 1977
- Pupils register 1981 to 1983
These are on closed access at the Public Record Office Victoria in VPRS 9917/P2 Unit 1. The Department of Education records team will be able to advise you on accessing these records.
The location of pupils registers that cover 1945 to 1968 and 1977 to 1981 is unknown.
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