78-638: RSHS may refer to: Schools in Australia Redcliffe State High School , Redcliffe, Queensland Robina State High School , Robina, Queensland Rossmoyne Senior High School , Rossmoyne, Western Australia Schools in Canada Ross Sheppard High School , Edmonton, Alberta Schools in the United States John G. Rangos School of Health Sciences ,
156-647: A "Multicultural Showcase Event", White Ribbon Day (to campaign against domestic violence towards women), International Women's Day and Wear It Purple Day (to support the LGBT movement). The school does not offer any religious instruction classes. The school follows the National Curriculum for Drug and Alcohol Education. In a 2016 newspaper interview, the principal said, "Teachers use their discretion and professionalism when [substance abuse] issues arise." Instead of using detention to punish misbehaving students,
234-456: A 5% decline in the belief teachers were treating students fairly, a 7.6% decline in the belief parents could talk to teachers about their concerns, a 3.6% decline in the belief parents could collaborate with teachers, a 7.7% decline in the belief teachers took parents' concerns seriously and a 7.9% decline in the belief that student behaviour at the school was well-managed. In the same report, only 67.8% of students surveyed said they felt safe at
312-566: A 5-acre (2.0ha) Reserve for Police Purposes to its south. In 1936 the unused railway reserve was leased by Claude AM Reid, of Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Indooroopilly (now in Fig Tree Pocket ), who opened a koala park and zoo on the site in October 1937. The former railway reserve and koala park was gazetted as a "reserve for a state school" in 1945. The government also acquired 6.5ha of
390-532: A cantilevered portion supporting a northern verandah that had a bagracks balustrade. Protruding stairwells on the north side, enclosed with brick and glass, gave access to each end of the verandah. The first floor included a small staffroom and six classrooms, including: a physics lecture room with tiered gallery; physics lab; physics store/balance room; and four standard classrooms (three of which were initially used for domestic science classes). The rooms were well-lit and ventilated with awning windows used extensively on
468-415: A cleared section of the treed school reserve; as at 2019 some trees which predate the school still survive. Blocks A, B, and D were completed by mid-1959. Block A was a one-storey, slab-on-ground administration building constructed at the front of the school on the west side of the complex, facing Oxley Avenue. It had an asymmetrical gable roof and a splayed feature wall leading through large doors into
546-402: A clerestory of glass louvres above the walkway roof on the western side. An open-sided, steel-framed covered way connected the covered walkway of Block D north to the end of Block B, capturing a wedge-shaped courtyard between Blocks A-D. This open, flat area was used as an "Assembly Area" and had a bitumen surface. A small courtyard area to the side of this space, between Blocks C and D, had
624-417: A complex of buildings and a stand of mature trees on the north edge standing inside the school allotment on the boundary with Klingner Road. The features of state-level significance are: Block A is a one-storey, slab-on-ground administration building facing west to Oxley Avenue. Blocks B, C, and E are standard classroom buildings, highset on concrete pillars with open-web steel floor trusses supporting
702-413: A concrete-edged triangular garden bed in its centre. Redcliffe's population increased to 23,500 by 1963, and increasing enrolments at Redcliffe State High School resulted in the construction of three new buildings in three years - Block E and F during 1960, and Block G in 1962. Blocks E and F were built north of, and parallel to, Block B. Block E was built to a standard type similar to Blocks B and C. It
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858-408: A federal election", the school posted flyers and also some "campaign material was distributed in the students’ homework folders to take home". The school's principal was also interviewed on a union website. In the second instance, which occurred four months later, the school was caught again, this time using its Facebook page to promote the same union campaign. Evidence of this misconduct was tabled in
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#1733086052366936-644: A foyer at the north end of the building. The building accommodated: three offices (for the Principal, Deputy Principal, and staff), toilets, staffroom, and a store. The corridor featured school honour boards. A large dais at the rear (east) of the building faced directly into the understorey of the adjacent Block B, which was open and two steps lower. Although not identified as a standard type, very similar administration buildings have been identified at Mitchelton State High School (built in 1959) and Rockhampton State High School (drawn in 1960). Blocks B and C were built to
1014-407: A freestanding covered way through the courtyard to Block B. Block F is a slab-on-ground one-storey former vocational training building built to a standard floor plan. It is a long narrow building with its long sides facing north and south and has a covered walkway on the north side accessing a series of classrooms on the south side. It is timber-framed with facebrick veneer walls and the walkway wall
1092-477: A gable roof. It was a long, narrow brick veneer, timber-framed building with its long sides facing north and south and was attached to the west end of Block F via a breezeway. It had a verandah on its north side with bagracks and a hat and coat area at each end. It had a dressmaking room with fitting room; storeroom; staffroom; laundry; dining room; cooking room; and lecture room. The rooms were well-lit and ventilated with awning windows and fanlights used extensively on
1170-428: A large wedge-shaped vestibule at the elbow separating two manual arts workshops from a third large manual arts room. The rooms have a gable roof with a steel open-web portal frame, exposed internally. The vestibule, originally open-ended but later enclosed, has a lower skillion roof and is used as a manual arts lecture room. The building has a covered way on its western side that links from the covered stair of Block C to
1248-450: A northern verandah with a bagracks balustrade. The first floor had six standard-sized classrooms, with folding doors between two pairs of classrooms, and a "services room" at the east end. The verandah had projecting stairwells at each end, enclosed with brick and glass. Block F was built to a standard floor plan layout for home science classes, and was a one-storey, concrete slab-on-ground, timber-framed vocational training building with
1326-410: A program called "Respect — Commit To It" was introduced in an attempt to counter the high levels of abuse and violence directed towards staff by students. Also in 2018, the school was badly damaged in a graffiti attack by students amidst its International Respect Day celebrations. In 2019 the school was caught twice promoting a trade union campaign. In the first instance, which occurred "weeks before
1404-593: A public secondary school for another seven years when Redcliffe State High School opened in 1958, followed by the opening of Clontarf Beach State High School in 1964. Although the Queensland Government had instituted a high school system in 1912, high schools remained few in number until after World War II . The site of Redcliffe State High School was once part of Portion 226 of the Redcliffe Agricultural Reserve. By 1905 2.26ha of land at
1482-479: A resort, but few subdivisions were actually occupied at this time. Steamers initially provided the main access to Redcliffe, with jetties constructed at Woody Point (1882) and Redcliffe Point (1885). By 1890 steamers were bringing 10,000 day-trippers and holidaymakers per year, although there were still only 352 permanent residents on the peninsula in 1891. Redcliffe did not develop as a residential centre until road transport links improved. Anzac Memorial Avenue
1560-422: A series of workshops accessed by an external walkway along the west side. The structure is a steel portal frame with an east-facing clerestory window of metal louvres into the classrooms. The exterior is clad with crimped metal sheets and facebrick, which defines the building's corners. A gable-roofed projection on the south end of the building accommodates a small staffroom and storeroom. The east and west sides of
1638-536: A standard design (Timber Framed School Building incorporating steel open-web floor trusses). From 1950 the Department of Public Instruction introduced new standard plans for school buildings designed by the DPW. These buildings were high-set timber-framed structures and the ground floor "understorey" was used as covered play space. The principal type was a long and narrow building with a gable roof. A semi-enclosed stair connected
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#17330860523661716-455: A strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. Redcliffe State High School has a strong and ongoing association with past and present pupils, parents, staff members, and the surrounding community through sustained use since its establishment in 1958. The place is important for its contribution to the educational development of Redcliffe, with generations of children taught at
1794-492: A vocational training building. Standard, purpose-designed vocational buildings were first introduced to high schools in 1928. The Queensland Government continued its focus on vocational education during the 1950s and 1960s and a number of new standard building types were developed for manual training from the late 1950s. Block D was built to a standard building type, the Brick Veneer Vocational Building. It
1872-499: Is also important as a demonstration of the Queensland Government's provision of substantial high schools on new, master planned sites in booming population centres across Queensland in the 1950s, a time of pronounced population growth. The layout of the administration and classroom blocks, the covered links between them and associated open spaces, reflect the mid-1950s introduction of organic master planning, which responded to
1950-465: Is clad with narrow chamferboards. It has a gable roof over the classrooms and a separate, lower roof over the walkway with banks of north-facing metal-framed glass louvres between the two roofs opening into the classrooms. The building is attached by its eastern end to Block E via an open breezeway that has a connection to Block B via a covered way. The original roof sheets and the north and south windows, fanlights, and doors have been replaced (some within
2028-587: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Redcliffe State High School Redcliffe State High School is an independent , public , co-educational , secondary school , located in the City of Moreton Bay town of Redcliffe in Queensland , Australia. It is administered by the Department of Education . The school serves students from Year 7 to Year 12 . The school initially opened on 3 February 1958, on
2106-457: Is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a Queensland state high school of the 1950s and 1960s. These include its: site planning; range of highset and lowset timber and brick teaching buildings of standard designs that incorporate understorey play areas, verandahs, and classrooms with high levels of natural light and ventilation; and a generous, landscaped site with mature shade trees and assembly areas. The school site planning
2184-675: Is intact and illustrates the school master planning concepts introduced by the Department of Public Works in the 1950s, comprising long narrow classroom blocks (Blocks B, C, D, E, and F 1958–60) linked around open-ended courtyard assembly and play spaces, connected to a core administration building (Block A 1959). Blocks B and C (Timber Framed School Buildings incorporating steel open-web floor trusses) are good intact examples of their standard types. The buildings retain their: highset form; trusses; open play space underneath classrooms; north-facing, open verandahs; abundant natural light and ventilation of
2262-557: The Queensland Heritage Register on 31 May 2019. Redcliffe State High School opened in 1958 as the first state high school on the Redcliffe Peninsula . The school retains its seven original school buildings built between 1958 and 1962, which were designed by the Department of Public Works to provide abundant natural light and ventilation for optimal educational environments. These standard buildings are arranged on
2340-424: The Queensland Heritage Register . Redcliffe State High School has an enrolment of 1,368 students and a teaching staff of 112, as of 2023. Student demographics indicate the school population is highly secularised. According to Queensland Education Department statistics, in 2019 fewer than 15% of parents wanted their children to receive religious instruction at the school. Of students identifying as religious,
2418-467: The 1960s. This was a nation-wide occurrence resulting from immigration and the unprecedented population growth now termed the " baby boom ". Plans for the first four school buildings at Redcliffe State High School were prepared by the Department of Public Works (DPW) in August 1957. In 1956 the high school site was still covered in trees. During a period of high demand for more classroom accommodation, from
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2496-510: The Queensland Parliament by the LNP. In 2020, a student was murdered after a drug deal went wrong. In 2021, a number of students were rushed to hospital after drinking Gatorade spiked with wiper fluid by another student. In 2021, the media reported the school was put into lockdown when students brought knives on campus with the intention of fighting. The school denied the students drew
2574-523: The Redcliffe Peninsula was known as "Humpybong" (dead house), the name the Kabi Kabi, gave to the abandoned convict settlement. A 23,000 acre (9302ha) Redcliffe Agricultural Reserve, which included the peninsula, was declared in 1861, followed by the sale of farm portions from 1862. Some coastal portions were subdivided for "marine villas" in the late 1870s-early 1880s, when the peninsula was promoted as
2652-437: The building have large banks of steel-framed awning windows (some fixed closed, an original condition) and glass louvre fanlights. The school complex includes courtyards and open spaces to provide abundant natural light and ventilation to the buildings and accommodate student play, lunch, and activity space. Redcliffe State High School buildings was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 31 May 2019 having satisfied
2730-399: The buildings, connecting to stairs , breezeways, and covered links, and a series of classrooms and ancillary school rooms along the south side. Both long sides are extensively glazed with operable windows and fanlights to permit high levels of natural light and ventilation. Block D is a slab-on-ground one-storey vocational training building and is highly intact. It is boomerang shaped with
2808-432: The classrooms. The northern classrooms were 25 ft by 25 ft (7.6m by 7.6m) drawing rooms and the southern classrooms, for woodwork and for sheet metalwork, were both 25 ft by 30 ft (7.6m by 9.1m). At this end was also a timber store, saw bench room, and corridor. The rooms were well-lit and ventilated with banks of awning windows with fanlights of glass louvres on the eastern side, and double-hung windows and
2886-571: The classrooms; and 24 ft (7.3m) wide classrooms. Blocks D and G (Brick Veneer Vocational Buildings) demonstrate the principal characteristics of state high school vocational training buildings from the mid-20th century in Queensland. They are highly intact, retaining their: brick veneer, concrete slab-on-ground, and steel portal frame construction; vented clerestory; large, open workshop spaces with minimal and durable internal finishes; and high levels of natural light and ventilation. The place has
2964-429: The east and west walls, and via the clerestory, which had metal blade louvres and was positioned centrally over the work rooms. With the construction of Block G for woodwork and drawing, Block D was converted for use as two sheet metalwork rooms and one art classroom. Minor alterations included enclosing part of the covered walkway using some relocated original windows and walls, removing partitions, and sheeting over
3042-502: The east end stairs were enclosed with fixed glass. The verandah had a section of fixed glazing at its west end. The first floor accommodated: a small general classroom 24 ft by 15 ft (7.3m by 4.6m); four standard-sized general classrooms (three combinable by large folding doors); and a commercial room, 32 ft by 24 ft (9.8m by 7.3m). It was described as having "clean, simple lines, characteristic of new schools". The east ends of Blocks B and C were connected to Block D,
3120-440: The east of the high school in 1964 (on part of the 1885 police reserve). A residential lot, south of the school, was added to the grounds in 1980, providing access to Irene Street, and in 1989 land was added at the northeast corner of the school grounds, to create a total area of 3.37ha. In 1960, 3.0ha of land north of Klingner Road, opposite Portion 490, was also obtained and later cleared as an additional sports ground. This
3198-464: The east. Block B was connected to the rear (east) of the northern end of Block A. It was a long, narrow, brick veneer, timber-framed building with its long sides facing north and south. It had a gable roof and was highset, with an open play area in the western half of the ground floor and a female ablutions block (lockers, toilets, and showers) in the eastern half. The first floor was supported by exposed open-web steel floor trusses on concrete columns, with
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3276-470: The eastern side of Oxley Avenue, with sporting facilities on land on the other side of side of the avenue. In order to meet growing demand, the school classrooms have since spread onto the land where the sports fields once were. A pedestrian bridge linking the two campuses was constructed after a student was killed crossing the road in 2006. The school is notable for its left-wing, liberal values. The school's LGBTQI+ group introduced pronoun badges in 2021. It
3354-409: The existing contours of the site and provided for ordered growth from a nucleus. The three vocational training buildings (Block D 1958–9, Block F 1960, and Block G 1962) reflect the Queensland Government's focus in the 1950s and 1960s on vocational training. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places. Redcliffe State High School
3432-457: The first state secondary school on the peninsula, has played an important role in the Redcliffe peninsula community and continues to do so. Generations of students have been taught there. As at 2019 it retains: Redcliffe State High School occupies two sites east and west of the intersection of two main thoroughfares in Redcliffe, Oxley Avenue and Klingner Road. The east site is 3.37ha and comprises
3510-519: The following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. Redcliffe State High School (established in 1958) is important in demonstrating the evolution of state education and its associated architecture in Queensland. The place retains excellent, representative examples of standard government designs that were architectural responses to prevailing government educational philosophies, set in landscaped grounds with mature trees and assembly areas. It
3588-460: The ground floor of Block E, by enclosing some of the open space adjacent to the tuck shop, which had by then been extended one bay to the west. In 2004 a ground floor locker room in Block C was converted into a technology and interview room. The school grounds have also increased in size over time. By 1974 the school reserve had been expanded to 3.13ha to incorporate an opportunity school established to
3666-406: The largest groups were "Christian" (no denomination), followed by Church of England (belonging to the highly liberal Anglican Diocese of Brisbane) and Roman Catholic. Only a tiny proportion of students attended traditional Bible-believing Protestant churches (the largest group amongst these being five Lutherans). Even fewer pupils were members of non-Christian religions. The school performed below
3744-490: The mathematics department was rated 3 out of 5. The school has an ICSEA rating of 997. The school has an "Excellence in Women's [Rugby League] Football Program" and has also pioneered a brewers' training course. According to a survey of parents contained in the school's 2023 annual report, there was a steady 7% decline over the three years to 2023 in the belief that teachers at the school were motivating their child to learn,
3822-668: The mid-1950s DPW architects introduced school master planning, a concept to plan for controlled growth and change. During the period emphasis shifted away from grid-like layouts to nuclear layouts, centred on a nucleus of core facilities. The plans balanced the need for correct orientation and an appropriate response to contours and existing vegetation. Generous courtyard spaces between classroom wings were used for assembly and play areas. Redcliffe State High School followed this nuclear master planning approach. The school opened in 1958 with 107 students, either on 3 February or in October. By May that year only Block C had been constructed, set in
3900-499: The national average when compared to "All Australian students" in the Year 7 reading and numeracy categories and the Year 9 spelling and numeracy categories in the 2021 NAPLAN tests. Student participation in the NAPLAN tests was 10% below the national average. The school has never been able to achieve a State Overall Score of 90, meaning it has never been ranked among the top 160 high schools in
3978-404: The night was to promote "tolerance". Also, since 2022, the school has elected First Nations students as school captains. The principal declared that, by having school captains, the teachers were "trying to increase our students’ voice and agency". The school plays an active role in promoting National Sorry Day, NAIDOC Week, Anzac Day, Harmony Week (for diversity), Respect Week (for inclusivity),
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#17330860523664056-406: The northern part of the showgrounds, opposite the school reserve and west of Oxley Avenue, in 1947 for a school sports ground. Another decade passed before a high school was built. In 1954 it was reported that high school enrolments in Queensland had more than doubled since 1948, from 4,500 to nearly 11,000. An enormous demand for state education began in the late 1940s and continued well into
4134-433: The northwest corner of this portion was a reserve for railway purposes. The North Coast railway line reached North Pine (now Petrie ) in 1888. Despite a branch railway line to the Redcliffe Peninsula being proposed in the 1880s, it was not until 2016 that the Redcliffe Peninsula railway line was opened. In 1885, a 2-acre (0.8ha) Reserve for Post and Telegraph Office was surveyed in the northeast corner of Portion 226, with
4212-419: The original openings). The original internal partitions have mostly been demolished and new partitions inserted to form general classrooms. The internal linings have been replaced with flat sheets with no cover strip. Block G is a slab-on-ground one-storey vocational training building to a standard design and is highly intact. It is a long narrow building with its long sides facing east and west. It accommodates
4290-414: The risk was "minimal" once safeguards were brought in." The deputy principal, Sue Linde, was involved with Montecito. In 2014, a parent alleged his daughter was told to sit out the NAPLAN tests because her previous performances were poor, in order to make the school's overall results look better. In 2016, there was a bomb threat at the school. In 2017, there was a second bomb threat. In 2018,
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4446-547: The school utilises an area called "The Blue Room". The school describes it as "a centre that provides support and guidance to students who are having difficulties managing their own behaviour... The focus of the support provided in the Blue Room is to enable students to better understand their behaviour and how to moderate their performance in the classroom and in the school grounds." Redcliffe State High School has its own graffiti wall for students. The graffiti wall has been used in
4524-423: The school's "Growing Connections" course to create a sense of connection to the school which educational academics claim supports the development of positive social behaviours. The school has a performing arts centre known as "The Bird's Nest" and a professional-standard visual arts facility called "Studio Red". There is also a cybercafe on campus. In 2019, some of the school's buildings were listed on
4602-412: The school, 60.9% of students felt teachers treated students fairly, 50.6% of students felt they could talk to teachers about their concerns, 50.0% of students felt teachers took students' opinions seriously and just 46.2% of students felt that student behaviour was well-managed. The school is rated 2.3 out of 5 on the reviewing site, SchoolParrot. In semester one of 2023, the student attendance rate
4680-440: The school. One incident was captured on video. It showed a "girl being struck multiple times in the head". Redcliffe State High School buildings Redcliffe State High School buildings are a group of heritage-listed buildings at Redcliffe State High School on the corner of Klingner Road and Oxley Avenue, Redcliffe , City of Moreton Bay , Queensland , Australia. They were built between 1958 and 1962. They were added to
4758-537: The site according to 1950s nuclear master planning ideals, providing outdoor courtyard assembly and play areas and retaining pre-existing mature trees. The complex includes three vocational training buildings, built between 1959 and 1962. The Redcliffe Peninsula is part of the traditional lands of the Kabi Kabi people , and was briefly the site of the Moreton Bay penal settlement at Redcliffe Point (1824-5). For many years
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#17330860523664836-424: The southern wall, and double-hung windows in the verandah wall with louvred clerestory windows above the verandah roof. There was a small concrete flower bed north of the east end of the building. A covered walkway was also built at this time to connect Block E across the courtyard to the east end of Block B. Block G was built to a standard type (Brick Veneer Vocational Building with skylight) east of Block D. It
4914-423: The southern wall, and double-hung windows in the verandah wall with pivoting clerestory fanlights above the verandah roof. Block C was similar to Block B and was attached by a partially-enclosed covered area to the south end of Block A. The ground floor accommodated: a library; chemistry lecture room, lab, and store room; and male ablutions. The first floor had a northern verandah accessed by stairs at both ends;
4992-498: The state according to this metric. It is also consistently ranked outside the top 100 high schools in the state based on the Better Education Rank metric. Its best ranking was 110 in 2013 and its worst was 307 in 2017. For every year from 2012 to 2020, the performance of the school's English department, (which was headed by Shelley Troedson), was rated 2 out of 5 by bettereducation.com.au . For most of those same years,
5070-406: The timber-framed first floor. Blocks B and C are highly intact. The buildings are two-storey, long and narrow with long sides facing approximately north and south, positioned to form courtyards between them for student lunch and activity space. They feature extensive areas of facebrick across both levels and have gable roofs clad with corrugated metal sheets. Verandahs run along the north side of
5148-522: The understorey to a north-facing verandah running the length of the building. Classrooms opened off the verandah and had extensive areas of windows, allowing abundant natural light and ventilation. In 1954 this type was improved by replacing the proliferation of stumps in the understorey with a timber truss that provided an unimpeded play space. This concept was further refined in 1957 with a steel open-web joist, set on reinforced concrete piers, that spanned further and removed more understorey stumps. The design
5226-468: The weapons. A head of senior school has been accused of sexual misconduct against a student and multiple incidents of bullying student-teachers but no charges have ever been laid against him. In 2022, video emerged of one female student from the school violently attacking another outside a supermarket. In 2023, the Courier-Mail newspaper stated there was a "fight club" culture amongst students at
5304-500: The western windows of the former drawing rooms. This work was planned in late 1961. Between 1962 and 2018, other buildings were added to the school, including: Buildings were also constructed on the "Western Campus" on the opposite side of Oxley Avenue after 1981. After a 13-year-old student, Caitlin Hanrick, was killed while crossing Oxley Avenue in December 2006, a pedestrian bridge
5382-403: Was 86% with only 52% of students attending school 90% or more of the time. By term three, this had dropped to 45%. In 2010, asbestos was found in garden mulch at the school. The Courier-Mail newspaper alleged that this was kept secret from parents and students in "a deliberate and elaborate cover-up. Department chiefs told school principal Shona McKinlay to keep the danger secret after deciding
5460-423: Was a long, narrow, brick veneer, timber-framed building with its long sides facing north and south. It had a gable roof and was highset. The ground floor accommodated two locker rooms, an open play area with a tuckshop, an armoury (for military cadets), and small storerooms under the stairs. The first floor was supported by exposed open-web steel floor trusses on concrete columns, with a cantilevered portion supporting
5538-414: Was a one-storey, concrete slab-on-ground building with an open-web steel portal frame structure. The building oriented its long sides east–west and a covered walkway ran along part of the west side. Varying from the standard, it was slightly boomerang-shaped with an open-sided, wedge-shaped "vestibule" at the elbow and two classrooms at either end. It had a skillion roof over the vestibule and gable roofs over
5616-477: Was a one-storey, steel portal-framed building with an east-facing clerestory roof. It was long and narrow, with its long sides facing east and west and a covered walkway along the west side. The building accommodated woodwork and drawing rooms. A small staffroom, store, and machine room were accommodated in a small projecting annexe with a gable roof. The rooms were well-lit and ventilated with banks of awning windows, fixed glass panes, and fanlights used extensively in
5694-402: Was constructed to link the campuses opening in October 2008 as "Caity's Crossing". Changes to the early buildings have occurred over time, including: Later changes included: Block A was refurbished again in c. 2001 and in c. 2002 the ground floor of Block B was altered to include a uniform shop (by remodelling part of the toilets); and a cybercafe was added on
5772-430: Was further refined in 1959 by replacing the concrete piers and open-web joist with a steel portal frame that was employed extensively in the 1960s and 1970s. Blocks B and C at Redcliffe were of this latter type, which had a standard classroom size of either 24 ft (7.3m) square or 24 ft by 21 ft (7.3m by 6.4m). Blocks B and C projected east from each end of Block A, forming a courtyard which widened towards
5850-648: Was opened from Petrie to Redcliffe in December 1925, and the population boomed after the Hornibrook Highway Bridge was opened in October 1935. The population of the Town of Redcliffe (declared in 1921) grew from 8,871 in 1947 to 18,000 in 1959, the year the City of Redcliffe was declared, and this strong growth continued into the 1960s. In 2008 the City of Redcliffe became part of the Moreton Bay Region, which
5928-671: Was renamed City of Moreton Bay in July 2023. The earliest school on the peninsula, the Humpybong Provisional School, opened in Clontarf in 1876. The Redcliffe Provisional School opened at Redcliffe in 1888. Humpybong State School opened in Margate in 1909. The peninsula's first private secondary school, Soubirous Convent School in Scarborough in 1951. However, the peninsula did not have
6006-456: Was subdivided in 1996, and the western half later became a TAFE campus. Since its establishment, the school has been the focus of community events, such as fetes, and a fashion show was held in 1977 to raise funds for the first assembly hall. For the school's 50th anniversary in 2008, a DVD was compiled with a collection of photos, documents and newspaper articles from the school's history. Redcliffe State High School, established in 1958 as
6084-516: Was the first school in the State to do so. The school strives to embed "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives across learning areas." In 2023, the school held a "Night of Culture" organised by PASIFIKA and the school's First Nations teachers. The evening was opened by First Nations people and featured an Acknowledgment of Country and a traditional welcome dance, followed by performances by students, staff and community members. The aim of
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