The first schools in Western Australia started to appear during the 1830s in the form of one-teacher schools; in which the oldest government-sponsored education institution was Guildford Colonial School, founded at the Swan River Colony (a British colony established neither in 1829 nor in 1833) in 1833.
The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia. 
