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Woree State School | |
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Location | |
Cairns Qld Australia | |
Coordinates | 16°57′35″S145°44′29″E / 16.959759°S 145.741485°E |
Information | |
Principal | Mrs. Terry Davidson |
Grades | Prep to 6 |
Website | woreess |
Woree State School (WSS) is a public school situated in the southern suburbs of Cairns, North Queensland, Australia. The school provides education from Prep to Year 6 and has around 900 students. It was opened in 1980.
Its motto is '"Discover Strive Shine" and this replaced the school's original motto of "We Aim To Achieve" in 2009.
"In God We Trust" is the official motto of the United States as well as the motto of the U.S. state of Florida, and Nicaragua. It was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, replacing E pluribus unum, which had been the de facto motto since the initial design of the Great Seal of the United States.
Semper fidelis is a Latin phrase that means "always faithful" or "always loyal". It is the motto of the United States Marine Corps, usually shortened to Semper Fi. It is also in use as a motto for towns, families, schools, and other military units.
Sapere aude is the Latin phrase meaning "Dare to know"; and also is loosely translated as "Have courage to use your own reason", "Dare to know things through reason". Originally used in the First Book of Letters, by the Roman poet Horace, the phrase Sapere aude became associated with the Age of Enlightenment, during the 17th and 18th centuries, after Immanuel Kant used it in the essay "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (1784). As a philosopher, Kant claimed the phrase Sapere aude as the motto for the entire period of the Enlightenment, and used it to develop his theories of the application of reason in the public sphere of human affairs.
Ad astra is a Latin phrase meaning "to the stars". The phrase has origins with Virgil, who wrote in his Aeneid: "sic itur ad astra" and "opta ardua pennis astra sequi". Another origin is Seneca the Younger, who wrote in Hercules: "non est ad astra mollis e terris via".
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