Redcliffe State High School | |
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Location | |
, Queensland Australia | |
Coordinates | 27°13′24.36″S153°06′36.72″E / 27.2234333°S 153.1102000°E |
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Motto | Faire sans Dire (Deeds without Words) [1] |
Established | 3 February 1958 |
Principal | Barry Wallett |
Enrolment | 1,368 (2023) |
Campus | Redcliffe |
Colour(s) | Blue |
Website | redcliffeshs |
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. [2] [3] It is administered by the Department of Education. The school serves students from Year 7 to Year 12. [2] [3]
The school initially opened on 3 February 1958, [4] [5] on 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. [6] A pedestrian bridge linking the two campuses was constructed after a student was killed crossing the road in 2006. [7]
The school is notable for its left-wing, liberal values. The deputy principal, Sue Linde, was involved with Montecito. [8] [9] The school's LGBTQI+ group introduced pronoun badges in 2021. It was the first school in the State to do so. [10] [11] [12] [13]
The school strives to embed "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives across learning areas." [14] The school has an "Excellence in Women's [Rugby League] Football Program" [15] and has also pioneered a brewers' training course. [16] [17]
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. [18] The aim of the night was to promote "tolerance". [19] Also, since 2022, the school has elected First Nations students as school captains. [20] The principal declared that, by having school captains, the teachers were "trying to increase our students’ voice and agency". [21]
The school plays an active role in promoting National Sorry Day, NAIDOC Week, Anzac Day, Harmony Week (for diversity), Respect Week (for inclusivity), 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). [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]
The school does not offer any religious instruction classes. [28]
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." [29]
Instead of using detention to punish misbehaving students, 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." [30]
Redcliffe State High School has its own graffiti wall for students. The graffiti wall has been used in the school's "Growing Connections" course to create a sense of connection to the school which educational academics claim[ citation needed ] supports the development of positive social behaviours.[ citation needed ]
The school has a performing arts centre known as "The Bird's Nest" and a professional-standard visual arts facility called "Studio Red". [31]
There is also a cybercafe on campus. [32]
In 2019, some of the school's buildings were listed on the Queensland Heritage Register. [33]
Redcliffe State High School has an enrolment of 1,368 students and a teaching staff of 112, as of 2023. [3]
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. [34]
Of students identifying as religious, the largest groups were "Christian" (no denomination), followed by Church of England (belonging to the highly liberal [35] 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). [36] Even fewer pupils were members of non-Christian religions. [37]
The school performed below 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. [38]
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 the state according to this metric. [39] [40]
It is also consistently ranked outside the top 100 high schools in the state based on the Better Education Rank metric. [41] Its best ranking was 110 in 2013 and its worst was 307 in 2017. [42]
For every year from 2012 to 2020, the performance of the school's English department, (which was headed by Shelley Troedson), [43] was rated 2 out of 5 by bettereducation.com.au. For most of those same years, the mathematics department was rated 3 out of 5. [44]
The school has an ICSEA rating of 997. [45]
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, 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. [46] [47]
In the same report, only 67.8% of students surveyed said they felt safe at 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. [48] [49]
The school is rated 2.3 out of 5 on the reviewing site, SchoolParrot. [50]
In semester one of 2023, the student attendance rate was 86% with only 52% of students attending school 90% or more of the time. By term three, this had dropped to 45%. [51]
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 the risk was "minimal" once safeguards were brought in." [52]
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. [53]
In 2016, there was a bomb threat at the school. [54]
In 2017, there was a second bomb threat. [55]
In 2018, 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. [56]
Also in 2018, the school was badly damaged in a graffiti attack by students amidst its International Respect Day celebrations. [57]
In 2019 the school was caught twice promoting a trade union campaign. In the first instance, which occurred "weeks before a federal election", the school posted flyers and also some "campaign material was distributed in the students’ homework folders to take home". [58] The school's principal was also interviewed on a union website. [59] 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 the Queensland Parliament by the LNP. [60] [61]
In 2020, a student was murdered after a drug deal went wrong. [62] [63]
In 2021, a number of students were rushed to hospital after drinking Gatorade spiked with wiper fluid by another student. [64]
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 the weapons. [65]
A head of senior school has been accused of sexual misconduct against a student [66] and multiple incidents of bullying student-teachers but no charges have ever been laid against him. [67] [68]
In 2022, video emerged of one female student from the school violently attacking another outside a supermarket. [69] [70]
In 2023, the Courier-Mail newspaper stated there was a "fight club" culture amongst students at the school. [71] One incident was captured on video. It showed a "girl being struck multiple times in the head". [72]
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