Carew school

When I was in grade three (1954) Dad bought another farm about six miles north of Girraween. So in the autumn of that year I left Bordertown primary and started going to Carew school which was about a mile and a half from home. I had a bike, but could also walk there. That was a one-teacher school, with all seven grades in the same room. I think the maximum number of kids was about thirty. The school is long gone, in fact it closed before Roger had finished primary school and he had to get the school bus into Mundulla in the end.

The teacher used to board with one of the school families, and one I remember quite well who stayed with us was Tom O’Connor. He played cricket for Mundulla and used to practice at home, bowling left arm spinners at a tree. I can still hear the ball buzz through the air. I must have been getting keen because he gave me Don Bradman’s little book ‘How to Play Cricket’.