Boondall State School
| Boondall State School | |
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Brisbane , Queensland | |
| Coordinates | 27°20′54″S 153°03′33″E / 27.3483°S 153.0592°E |
| Information | |
| Typ | Public |
| Motto | Success by work |
| Established | 1925 |
| Direktorin | Matthew Denzin |
| Years offered | Boys & girls, P–6 |
| Enrollment | 648 (2023) |
| Campus | Boondall |
| Colour(s) | Yellow and blue |
| Website | http://boondallss.eq.edu.au |
Boondall State School is an independent public, co-educational, primary school, located in the Brisbane suburb of Boondall, in Queensland, Australia.[1][2] It is administered by the Department of Education, with an enrolment of 648 students and a teaching staff of 45, as of 2023.[2] The school serves students from Prep to Year 6,[1][2] and has been listed as a Local Heritage Place since 1 July 2003, due to the schools Arbor Day trees.[3]
Standort
[edit]The school is located on the corner of Sandgate and Roscommon Roads in northside Brisbane suburb of Boondall.[3] The main entrance to the school is via Roscommon Road.[3]
History
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A state primary school was advocated to be built in the region in 1920,[4] and was for the next four years,[5] even though clearing of the land for the school had started in August 1921.[6]
Boondall State School was built in early 1925,[6] with the school being established on 2 April,[7] and opening on 6 April 1925,[8] with an enrolment of 61 students, out of a capacity of 80.[5] The opening ceremony was held on Saturday afternoon, 18 April 1925, by the Minister of Education at the time, Mr. T. Wilson.[5]
The Department of Education (then the Department of Public Instruction) encouraged the grounds of state schools to be pristine, evident through the fact that prizes were awarded to the schools that had maintained their playgrounds and school gardens.[6] To instill this, the department had made Arbor Day as part of the annual school calendar, which included the planting of shade trees or flowering shrubs.[6] The day has been celebrated since the year of the school's opening in 1925.[6] On Arbor Day in 1925, the students, parents and neighbours of the school planted trees on the school grounds, with the trees being planted along the fence line that bordered both Roscommon and Sandgate Road.[6]
The garden with the trees became neglected by 1929 and the neglect lasted right through the early years of the Great Depression.[6] One of the trees was lost in 1930, not due to the neglect, but a bushfire, which came very close to the school building.[6]
In 1932, corporal punishment at the school was almost entirely ruled out, being replaced with the 'Young Sports' Association', which was made up of school seniors, who held up the 'ideals of a good sport: one who is modest in victory, smiling under defeat, and is able to play the game as it should be played.'[9] The association worked like a court, trying offenders and recommending punishments on the wrongdoers.[9][10] By 1933 the school's experiment with moral suasion was reported to be effective, with the number of behaviour related incidents decreasing significantly.[11][12] It is unclear if or when the association was abolished.
The events for Arbor Day of 1933 saw five non-native Camphor Laurel trees being planted,[6] and by 1935, the neglect of the gardens was no longer evident.[6]
1936 saw the total number of Arbor Day trees had risen to thirty-two, however, since then, some of the trees have died or have been removed.[6]
On 18 August 1966, a fire had destroyed the original school building.[6] The surviving Arbor Day trees are now considered the remnants of the original school.[6]
Long serving principal, Chris Campanaris, retired after 22 years at the end of 2013 and was succeeded by Kim McNamara. McNamara moved schools in the middle of 2016 to West End State School and was succeeded by the permanent appointment of Angelique Padgett at the beginning of 2017. Sharni Tomkins was appointed as principal to begin the 2020 school year.[13]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Boondall State School | Department of Education". Schools Directory. Archived from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ a b c "ACARA Data Access Program - School Profile 2023". Australian Curriculum Assessment And Reporting Authority. Archived from the original on 1 May 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ a b c "Boondall State School's Arbor Day trees | Heritage Places". Brisbane City Council. Archived from the original on 1 September 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Boondall | Queensland Places". The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 17 March 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ a b c "Growth of Settlement - New State School Opened at Boondall". The Telegraph. 20 April 1925. p. 2. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Heritage Citation - Boondall State School's Arbor Day trees" (PDF). Brisbane City - Local Heritage Places. October 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 September 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "New State Schools". The Brisbane Courier. 3 April 1925. p. 11. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Opening and closing dates of Queensland schools". Queensland Department of Education. 14 April 2019. Archived from the original on 24 July 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ a b "Banish the Cane - Boondall Experiment - Boys' and Girls' Court". The Sunday Mail. 6 November 1932. p. 5. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "School Court - Trials at Boondall - "Circumstantial Evidence"". The Brisbane Courier. 24 November 1932. p. 14. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Moral Suasion - School Discipline - Boondall Experiment". The Courier-Mail. 3 November 1933. p. 17. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Boondall Order of Sports - New Experiment, says Minister". The Daily Standard. 3 November 1933. p. 5. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Principal's welcome". Boondall State School. 23 May 2019. Archived from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
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