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CALENDAR:
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May
14 - 16 - Naplan Testing
22 - Walk-a-thon
23 - Pixie Photos
24 - Pixie Photos
- Cup Cake Day
- Under 8's Activity Morning
30 - Choral Fanfare Snr Choir
31 - Interschool Sport
June
5 - Year 3-7 Science Competition
7 - Yr 3 Incursion Starlab
- Interschool Sport
10 - Queens Birthday Holiday
11 - Yr 7 Incursion - Ancient Egypt
Click here for Ed.
Qld School calendar for 2013 |
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| ABOUT OUR SCHOOL
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Click here
for some information about our
school in Chinese.
Click here for some
information about our school in Korean.
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Rochedale State School is situated
on the south-eastern outskirts of Brisbane in a pleasant, semi-rural
area with easy access to both northern and southern highways and
only 10 minutes from the city centre.
Click here for a map of our school's
catchment area.
The Rochedale area has quite an
interesting history.
Click here for the history of
Rochedale.
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On Friday, 15
March, 2013, we had our School Captains' Induction Assembly.
It was also the
National Day of Action Against
Bullying and Violence.
Click here for a slide
show of our School Captains' Induction Parade. |
Our school is home to many different sorts of wildlife
including koalas and our resident peacock, Andrew. Here are some photos of
a pair of tawny frog mouths and fledgling, one
of the koalas, our peacock, a wallaby and kookaburra::
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A wallaby
watches footy training |
and a
kookaburra was there too!! |
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Our Tawny Frog
Mouth & baby. |
Daddy
watches close by. |
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One of our
koalas. |
Andrew,
our peacock, shows off
for Shirley, our peahen. |
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Rochedale State School is in South East Brisbane Education District.
Click here for a map of our school's
catchment area. |
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Click here for the Education Department's map showing our
school and other schools in this district.
Click on Brisbane on
the map to the left, to have a closer look at where we are on
the map.
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Click on the photo below to have
a look at some great aerial views of our school. Most recent ones
from NearMap from 24 March, 2011 and the school fete last year.
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An aerial view of
Rochedale State School. |
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Values Education:
Staff and students at Rochedale State School places great importance on an
atmosphere of good values.
Click here for some photos
and information about our Values.
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High Five:
R ochedale State School is practising the High Five Strategy.
It
is an effective strategy to develop problem-solving strategies for
our students. It involves
a
whole school approach that can also eradicate bullying.
It
is a 5 step problem solving strategy that can be used in the
classroom, in the playground and for perceived bullying incidents.
Click
here for more information on the "High Five".
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RPAC - Our
new Performing Arts Centre. More photos on the
latest news page. |
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LATEST NEWS:
We are changing our School Uniform!
The
P&C discussed the idea of updating our school uniform at the AGM in February. The reasons
they decided to proceed include a need for a formal school uniform and a sports uniform, reducing the number of combinations possible, cost, durability and that the current uniform is over 20 years old.
Check out this week's newsletter or latest news page for more
information.
RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR PLAN,
2013
We have just published our new Responsible Behaviour Plan.
Click here to have a read.
PREP ENROLMENTS FOR 2014
Expressions of Interest for our Prep enrolments for 2014 opened
on Monday, 4 February, 2013. As places are limited, if you are not in our
catchment area you need to get in early!!
GET YOUR COPY OF "OUR
ANDREW" NOW,
See
latest news page or the office or library for your
copy. There is also a workbook available as well now. |
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RED HOT RESULTS FROM NAPLAN
In 2012 we also did very well:
In 14 out of 15 areas our school's results
are above National means.
In 14 out of 15 areas our school's results
are above 'Like School' means.
Our achievements in all areas in Year 3
and Year 7 are flagged as being
Significantly Above - Like Schools,
State Schools and National Means.
Click here
for a news article on how well our school did in the 2011 NAPLAN tests.
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Red hot
results from Naplan
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 International Baccalaureate World School
Rochedale
State School is now authorized to offer the International Baccalaureate
Organization, Primary Years Programme. We now have productive
partnerships with a growing family of teachers and students around the
world. Rochedale State School is the only state school in Queensland to
achieve authorization status.
What does this mean for
our students?
Learning at Rochedale
State School is not confined within the boundaries of traditional
subject areas but is supported and enriched by them. Our program will
engage all students in ways that are developmentally appropriate and
challenging.
The Mission Statement
of the International Baccalaureate
The International
Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young
people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through
intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the
organization works with schools, governments and international
organisations to develop challenging programmes of international
education and rigorous assessment. These programs
encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and
lifelong learners who understand that other people with their
differences, can also be right.
Our school will have
the ongoing support of The International Baccalaureate Organization and
our teachers will have access to internationally recognized professional
development.
Click here for the General Regulations
of the Primary Years Programme for students and legal guardians and
click
here for the Rules. These are also
available from our school
office.
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At Rochedale State School in 2012, we have around 900 pupils in Prep to Year 7 with 35 classroom teachers. Our curriculum
includes Chinese or French. Years 2 and 4 have an hour of Chinese
per week and will continue learning Chinese through to Year 7 and Years 6
and 7 have 1.5 hours of Chinese per week. Years 3 and 5 have 1 hour of
French per week and will continue their French studies through to Year
7. Prep and Year 1 have half an hour of Chinese per week. We have Music and Physical
Education Specialists, 5 days a week as well as Learning Support teachers.
Rochedale State School is a member of the prestigious
International
Baccalaureate Organization and we are an accredited school for
hosting International Tours which we do quite regularly.
Our students consistently
achieve above the state average results in systemic testing such
as the Year 3, 5 and 7 Naplan tests. Our
School Annual Report has
more information about our school.
Click here for our
Mission Statement.
Click here for our School
Disciplinary Absences Report.
Children also compete actively in the University of New South Wales
competitions in Maths and English and achieve some of the best results in
the State.
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Rochedale State School has many amenities
including a swimming pool with an active Swimming Club, a large oval and
Assembly Hall and covered Adventure
Playgrounds for the younger pupils.
We offer before and after school
care programs as well as Vacation Care for children who need this
service, through
ROSHCA. We have recently completed a new purpose built
ROSCHA building at the end of the school gym. Contact email is roshca7@hotmail.com
or phone them directly on 3841 1943.
On Fridays from 9.0am to 10.30am we have a Raindrops Playgroup at school for
children from 18mths of age and all are welcome!
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Our
great swimming pool and shade cloth cover. |
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Our sporting teams compete in Softball,
Cricket, T-Ball, Rugby League, Tennis and Netball and perform creditably
in all these sports. We also have Aussie Rules teams, the Rochedale
Ravens, training and playing games on our school oval.
Our classrooms from Prep to Year 7 are fully air-conditioned with
reverse cycle units. Every classroom has an interactive white board and
projector for the teachers' and students' use and they are an invaluable
tool for Improving student learning outcomes and streamlining lesson
planning. Our SEU unit makes use of iPads to enhance learning for the
children in their unit and some teachers also use iPads with their
interactive whiteboards.
Our library is large and well
stocked and is fully computerised to provide an excellent source of
reference and reading material. It also has wireless internet for
use with teachers' and visitors laptops.
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Our computer lab in the library |
Our school computers include
over 200 IBM compatible PC's with our student to computer
ratio being around 5:1. We also have around 40 iPads that are used
in the classroom and support areas and 45 laptops spread amongst the
classes. As one of
the original 104 "Leading Schools" in Queensland, we are fully cabled,
with every classroom having at least 4 networked computers and Internet
access.
Several rooms including the library, also have wireless access
with more 4 more wireless access points installed at the start of 2013
and more planned!! All teachers have their own Departmental laptop. Our computer lab, situated in
our school library, has 28 of the latest computers for
children to use. See photo above!
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Our school Home Page has been up and running for 17 years
now and is expanding and we hope, improving, all the time. The
colours on these pages reflect the school colours of blue and
gold and the banner shows our School Captains in their uniforms.
This site aims to make the resources of the Internet
available to students, to provide information about our school
and showcase our student's work.
We hope you will enjoy our
pages and find them interesting and informative.
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We
are sponsoring a new World Vision child, Bo Bo Han.
