A Brief History Of Tweed Heads Public School
Did you know that Tweed Heads Public School used to be called Point Danger Provisional School? The school started back in 1876 and there were only 6 families at the school. In 1884 the school became a public school and by 1904 had an attendance of 103.
In 1908 the school was moved to where it is now and its name was changed to Tweed Heads Public School. Recently the school celebrated its 100th Anniversary with this name and on this site. A time capsule was planted.
Click here to visit the Tweed Heads Public School Website
In 1908 the school was moved to where it is now and its name was changed to Tweed Heads Public School. Recently the school celebrated its 100th Anniversary with this name and on this site. A time capsule was planted.
Click here to visit the Tweed Heads Public School Website
A Brief History of Tweed Heads
In 1770, Captain James Cook sailed to the Tweed area and named two important landmarks, Mount Warming and Point Danger. He did not venture up the Tweed River.
In 1823 John Oxley and his party came to the Tweed, looking for a site for a prison. Contact with Aboriginal people was not usually violent.
By the 1830’s Cedarmen had come to the Tweed Valley in search of the Red Cedar, nicknamed red gold. The numbers of Aboriginal people declined. The impact of clearing of forests for a people already weakened by introducing diseases was catastrophic. Dispossessed of their land, homes and hunting grounds, and sacred sites, the population plummeted.
In 1823 John Oxley and his party came to the Tweed, looking for a site for a prison. Contact with Aboriginal people was not usually violent.
By the 1830’s Cedarmen had come to the Tweed Valley in search of the Red Cedar, nicknamed red gold. The numbers of Aboriginal people declined. The impact of clearing of forests for a people already weakened by introducing diseases was catastrophic. Dispossessed of their land, homes and hunting grounds, and sacred sites, the population plummeted.
The Background For The Claymation
Below is a picture of a place near our school which became the background of claymation. We chose Jack Evan's Boat Harbour which is located in the centre of Tweed Heads. Jack Evans established the Jack Evans Snapper Rocks swimming pools at Point Danger. One day in 1957 the Boyd brothers netted two porpoises in Terranora Creek and for a lark slipped them into Jack Evans’ swimming pool.
Crowds gathered to see the attraction and this was the beginning of what was called the Pet Porpoise Pool.
Today the boat harbour in Tweed Heads is named the Jack Evans Boat Harbour, and this has recently undergone extensive redevelopment.
Crowds gathered to see the attraction and this was the beginning of what was called the Pet Porpoise Pool.
Today the boat harbour in Tweed Heads is named the Jack Evans Boat Harbour, and this has recently undergone extensive redevelopment.