Boondall State School

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Boondall State School
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Boondall State School
Brisbane
,
Queensland

Australia
Coordinates 27°20′54″S153°03′33″E / 27.3483°S 153.0592°E / -27.3483; 153.0592 (Boondall State School)
Information
TypePublic
MottoSuccess by work
Established1925
PrincipalMatthew Denzin
Years offeredBoys & girls, P–6
Enrollment648 (2023)
CampusBoondall
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, 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]

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Location

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

New classroom and teachers' room, Boondall State School, April 1951 Queensland State Archives 1613 Boondall State School New Classroom and Teachers Room April 1951.png
New classroom and teachers' room, Boondall State School, April 1951

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]

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