Teachers In Charge / Principals 1961- 2008 1961 - 1969 Graham Fowler 1970 - 1974 Neil Von Schill 1975 - 1976 Stephen Hall 1977 - 1978 Ray Olgivie 1979 - 1983 Ross Menser 1984 - 1987 Jill Bower

1988 - 1990 Robyn Parnell 1991 - 2000 Paul Faulkner 2001 - 2001 Nyree Taylor (relieving) 2002 - 2007 Geoff Stevens 2008 – 2008 Fiona Dooley (nee Ridley) (relieving) 2009 - Beverley Cartwright

THE WAY IT USED TO BE (Excerpt from assignment by Will Ridley, Year 6, 2007)
In 1959, the Department of Education gave an old school building from Warroo to Jack and Bill Ridley. Dick Lydford organised the
moving of the school building, on the back of a truck, to land Mr Gordon Maguire had donated to the community.  The school
was positioned approximately 60kms south west of Forbes, where it is located today.  The first teacher was Joan Rawthorne
and the pupils were Graham and Steven Wilkins, Colleen and Jimmy McGavin, and Anne and Donald Ridley.   Correspondence
lessons were sent off once a month and the results were returned every three months.  In 1960, Miss Hammond became the
new teacher and the Brenner and Ashcroft children arrived. In 1961, with the growing enrolment numbers, the Department of
Education took over running the school and Mr Graham Fowler was sent to teach the students. In 1964 Mr Graham Fowler
went away and when he came back he was married in 1965. The school parents bought an army hut and made it into a house for
Mr Fowler and his wife and located it where the weather shed is today.  At this time Goldie Ridley planted the first trees at the
school. Two years later a little stable was built, as some students rode horses to school.  In 1970, Neil Von Schill became the
Teacher in Charge of approximately thirty students. By late second term the enrolments had increased to 39 pupils and still only
one teacher! At the beginning of the third term, Lenya Kobelke started to teach and continued to teach throughout 1971. She left
at the beginning of 1972 and Liz Coueroy took her place. Liz wasn’t very happy so Neil Von Schill, with the help of the Inspector
Mr Darcy Crowe, transferred her to Sydney. David Elith took her place but the Heddle children left and that took the number of
children at the school down to 27, so David left and was transferred to Moombooldool.  In 1970 there were two school
classrooms, three pit toilets and the tennis court. The bigger of the classrooms was for the senior classes, office and storeroom
and the smaller classroom was the original building put there in 1959.  The old school residence which was put there in 1965
was removed and sold in 1971. Eventually the pit toilets were replaced by a brick toilet block. The water the school used was
from Gordon Maguires dam located next to the school. Due to an inadequate supply of water, the Department of Education
employed the Conservation and Irrigation Commission to drill a bore where the old residence was located. At the same time a fish
and frog pond was dug. The tennis court was resurfaced and conducted many successful tennis tournaments.  Over the years
Corinella Public School has had many changes. While I have been at the school we have had three different teachers, a new
classroom has been erected, new toilets have been installed and the tennis court has been resurfaced again.