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ROCHEDALE STATE SCHOOL in 2008....... |
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Calendar:
October, 2008
14, 15 - IBO Visit
15 - Year 4 Instrumental
Music
Info Evening
20 - Pupil Free Day
22 - 27 - Book Fair |
December, 2008
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Year 1 Swimming Carnival
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- Year 2 Swimming Carnival
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- Year 3 Swimming Carnival
Christmas Carols 6.30pm
2, 3, 4 -
Year 7 Activity Week
5 -
Orientation Rochedale
S.H.S.
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- Year 4-7 Swimming Carnival
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- Year 7 Graduation
12
- Final Day Term 4
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November, 2008
4 - Melbourne Cup Day
7 - Interschool Sport Finishes
11 - Remembrance Day
27 - Instrumental Music
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| ABOUT OUR SCHOOL
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Click here for some information about our
school in Chinese.
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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.
The Rochedale area has quite an
interesting history.
Click here for the history of
Rochedale.
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Education
Minister, the Hon. Rod Welford and Talitha Cummins, Ch 7,
visit our school for the Year of Physical Activity.
Click here
for Newspaper Report. |
Our school is home to many different sorts of wildlife
including koalas and our resident peacocks. Here is are some photos of
a pair of tawny frog mouths, one
of the koalas and our peacocks:
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Our Tawny Frog
Mouth nesting. |
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. |
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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.
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Aerial view of
Rochedale State School. |
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Values Education: Staff and students have
been discussing values and how we can engender an atmosphere of good values
at Rochedale State School.
Click here for
some photos from our Values Education Forum held on 19 October, 2005.
Click
here for the PowerPoint Presentation from
the Forum.
High Five:
Rochedale 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.
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Our newly refurbished Library. |
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Principal
Liam Smith and Deputy Principal Leigh Francis draw the
raffles at our School Fete.
Click here for our slideshow of
the fete. |
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At Rochedale State School in 2008, we have
over 800 pupils in Prep to Year 7 with 33 classroom teachers. Our curriculum
includes Chinese or French for Years 6 and 7 with the Year 2 children having
half an hour of Chinese this year.
We have a Music and Physical
Education Specialist, 5 days a week as well as Learning Support teachers.
Our Principal is Mr Liam Smith. We have 2 Deputy Principals in our
Admin team - Mr Clint Burton and Mrs Leigh Francis.
Rochedale State School is a candidate for the prestigious
International
Baccalaureate Organization and we are an accredited school for
hosting International Tours.
Our students consistently
achieve above the state average results in systemic testing such
as the Year 3, 5 and 7 literacy and numeracy tests. Our
School Annual Reporting pages have graphs
and charts of our school's result.
Click here for our
Mission Statement.
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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Travis Johnstone from the Brisbane Lions signs
a photo for our students during a recent visit. |
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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 a brand new covered Adventure
Playground for the younger pupils.
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Our
great swimming pool and new shade cloth cover. |
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We offer before and after school
care programs as well as Vacation Care, for children who need this
service.
On Fridays from 9.0am to 10.30am we have a Playgroup at school for
children below school age and all are welcome!
Our sporting teams compete in Softball,
Cricket, T-Ball, Rugby League, Tennis and Netball and perform creditably
in all these sports.
Our classrooms from Prep to Year 5 are fully air-conditioned. During
2007, Year 6 and 7 rooms were extended and refurbished with interactive
white boards and projectors and were being air-conditioned. Unfortunately
these rooms were destroyed by fire during the September school holidays
and the classes are housed in new demountables for the time being. Their
white boards and projectors and computers have all been replaced but the
air-conditioning which had just been installed in the original building
has not been replaced. Work is underway at present to rebuild this
building.
Our library is large and well
stocked and is fully computerised to provide an excellent source of
reference and reading material. Our school computers include
over 160 IBM compatible PC's with our
student to computer ratio being around 5:1. These computers are used
regularly with many and varied programs from educational games to word
processing, Internet and email throughout all our year levels. 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.
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Computers in the classroom. |
We also have a computer lab of 21 computers, all fully networked
and online, situated in our school library. These computers are
used regularly to extend and enhance our children's computer
access and skills and 17 were fully replaced in 2005, thanks to
our hard working P&C Committee. A further 4 computers were added
in 2007, bringing the number to 21, with another 6 to be added
in the first few weeks of 2008.
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Computers in the Library. |
Our school Home Page has been up and running for just on 12 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.
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 still sponsoring our World Vision child, Rosa Man.
