page_title: Weetangera, Australian Capital Territory
section_title: Historic Public School
hierarchical_section_title: Weetangera, Australian Capital Territory / Educational institutions / Historic Public School
caption_attribution_description: English: Sign giving history of the original Public School, Weetangera.
context_page_description: Weetangera is a suburb in the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb covers an area of approximately 158 hectares. Located approximately 10 kilometres north-west of the city, Weetangera is bounded by Springvale Drive to the south and west, Coulter Drive to the east and Belconnen Way to the north. The Pinnacle Nature Reserve, a Canberra Nature Park is adjacent to the south of the suburb, across Springvale Drive.
context_section_description: The first Public School (pre-High School) was sited on land of the original farming property, and opened on 27 April 1875, with 27 students. The first teacher was Mr Ewan Cameron, a member of the Weetangera community and a parent of a student.
  The site is between (beside) the present Belconnen Way (north) and Smith and Kinleyside Streets (south). It now a park, with children's play area, with several lines of pine trees that were planted by students of the original school in about 1919 and 1928/9 (Arbor Day).
caption: Sign giving history of the original Public School, Weetangera.
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