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ROCHEDALE STATE SCHOOL in 2009 ....... |
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Date:
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CALENDAR:
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November
18 - Yr 7 Parliament House Excursion
19 - Prep Bazil & Grumble Incursion 9am – Hall
25 - French Dinner
December
1, 2, 3 - Yr 7 Activity Week
1 - Yr 1 Swimming Carnival
2 - Yr 2 Swimming Carnival
3 - Yr 3 Swimming Carnival
4 - Yr 3 Theatre Excursion
7 - Senior Swimming Carnival
8 - Yr 7 Graduation |
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NOTICES:
The Rochedale Junior Aussie Rules
Football Club will be holding their inaugural AGM on Monday, 23rd
November. The meeting will be held in the Conference Room of our new
Admin Building, and all members of the community are welcome to
attend. Start time - 6.30pm.
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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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Many thanks to
Underwood News, Rochedale Markets and BP Rochedale for sponsoring our
Rugby League and Soccer teams and supplying new jerseys for the
players.
Click photo for team photos of both our Rugby League and
Soccer teams. |
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 and fledgling, one
of the koalas and our peacocks:
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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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Laverne,
Shirley's daughter, loves sitting on cars!! |
This is
Laverne's friend, Lenny that she brought home one day!! |
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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
at Rochedale State School places great importance on an atmosphere of good
values.
Click here for some photos
and information about our Values.
Click
here
for the PowerPoint Presentation from
the Forum we held.
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.
Click
here for more information on the "High Five".
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Our Wakakirri
performers showed our future students and parents their talents at Open
Day on Friday, 31 July, 2009. Click the photo for some more photos
of Open Day and the Wakakirri Dress Rehearsal. |
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Our school fete
was once again a huge success. Check out our photos. |
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At Rochedale State School in 2009, we have over 850 pupils in Prep to Year 7 with 34 classroom teachers. Our curriculum
includes Chinese or French. In 2009, Years 2 and 4 have an hour of Chinese
per week and will continue learning Chinese through to Year 7. Years 6
and 7 currently have 1.5 hours of Chinese per week. In 2009, Years 3 and
5 have 1 hour of French per week and will continue their French studies
through to Year 7. Year 7 currently have 1.5 hours of French per week. 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.
Click here for our School
Disciplinary Absences Report.
Latest results for Year 2
Net and NAPLAN Year 3,5 and 7 Tests are now available.
Click here
for Year 2 Net results and
here
for
Year 3,5,7 tests.
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 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 Raindrops Playgroup at school for
children below from 18mths 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 7 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
in 2007 and the classes were housed in new demountables for some time.
Work has now finished on rebuilding these rooms and all of the Year 6
and 7 classes are back in their original rooms.
Our library is large and well
stocked and is fully computerised to provide an excellent source of
reference and reading material.
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Our Library. |
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 27 modern computers, all fully
networked and online and with an Interactive Whiteboard,
situated in our school library. These computers are used
regularly to extend and enhance our children's computer access
and skills.
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Computers in the Library. |
Our school Home Page has been up and running for just on 13 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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Click the photo for
some photos of our Walkathon |
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We
are still sponsoring our World Vision child, Rosa Man.
