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INDOOROOPILLY STATE HIGH SCHOOL - OPEN DAY 2025 | Thursday 29 May | 3.00 pm - 7.00 pm

 

Indooroopilly State High School's Open Day provides potential future parents/carers and students with a unique opportunity to learn more about the school and everything it has to offer! 

 

Explore the campus, engage in lively discussions with teachers and students, and gain insights into the school’s academic achievements, Programs of Excellence, inclusive culture, and diverse extra-curricular programs, including Indro’s exciting Clubs and the Indro Aspire program.

 

School Zone Safety

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

 

Brisbane City Council is writing to inform you that Ironside State School is confirmed to be included in the Brisbane City Council (Council) Safer Schools Program for Term 2, 2025. This program aims to promote safe parking practices and ensure compliance with local traffic regulations around schools.

 

Child safety is paramount, and illegal parking within school zones remains a significant concern for parents, residents, and schools. Limited parking spaces around peak drop-off and pick-up times often leads to competitive and potentially dangerous parking behaviours.

 

While we understand the challenges parents face in navigating school zone drop-off and pick-up, it is crucial to prioritise safety. Over the coming term, Council officers will be conducting regular patrols around your school to monitor parking compliance. Our enforcement approach will use a combination of foot patrols and our highly visible Community Safety and Regulation vehicles that can identify alleged offences using Automatic Number Plate Recognition and GPS software. Compliance action will be taken on any observed breaches.

 

School zone signs are displayed as you approach the school and shows both the speed limit and the times you need to reduce your speed around the school. Children's crossing are identified by children crossing flags, which are displayed near crossings before and after school hours.

When the crossing is supervised, you as a motorist must:

  • wait until allpedestrians, bicycle or personal mobility device riders have crossed the road and the crossing supervisor has returned to the footpath
  • abide by the direction given by the School Crossing Supervisor.

If the crossing is unsupervised, you as a motorist must:

  • give way to pedestrians, bicycle or personal mobility device riders on or entering a children’s, pedestrian or marked foot crossings
  • give way to pedestrians, bicycle or personal mobility device riders on or entering a road you’re turning into
  • give way to pedestrians, bicycle or personal mobility device riders on a slip lane
  • give way to pedestrians in a share zone
  • travel at a speed allowing you to stop safely at a crossing if needed

As a driver, it's important to make sure you give way to all pedestrians, bicycle or personal mobility device riders such as skateboards, e-scooters.  You must also give way to pedestrians using a motorised mobility device such as a motorised wheelchair or a mobility scooter.

Some of our most vulnerable road users are children getting to and from school, so it’s important to slow down and abide by the crossing rules, as it won’t make much difference to the trip time, but it could very well save lives.

 

Visit the Street Smarts website to find more information about what to do at pedestrian and children crossings.

 

The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in South Bank is seeking expressions of interest from teen performers to apply to perform at the Wonderstruck Festival at GOMA on Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 June.

 

We thought this event might be of interest to you and your networks in case you know of any interested teens who would be keen to apply. There are more details below. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any queries about the event.

 

WONDERSTRUCK FESTIVAL: TEEN PERFORMER CALL OUT

Are you a teen who is a passionate performer? Submit your expression of interest for the opportunity to perform at the Wonderstruck Festival!

 

All you need to do is submit a 1–3-minute audio recording or video of yourself performing to be in the running. Whether you sing, play an instrument solo or with a band, dance, or are a storyteller – we want to see your talent!

The most enthusiastic and passionate performers will be given the opportunity to perform a 15-minute set on the main stage at the Wonderstruck Festival, with staging and sound support supplied by QAGOMA.

Key dates

  • Fri 2 May 2025: Expressions of interest open
  • Fri 16 May 2025: Expressions of interest close at 11.59pm
  • By end of May 2025: All performers who have submitted an expression of interest will be notified of the outcome of their application, whether successful or unsuccessful
  • Sat 28 & Sun 29 June 2025: Wonderstruck Festival

 

To be eligible to perform, performers must be:

  • Between 13-17 years of age
  • Able to provide parental or guardian consent for participation
  • Available to perform a 15-minute set across the weekend of Saturday 28 June and Sunday 29 June at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). Set times will be allocated once performers are selected
  • Able to ensure that their set is suitable for a daytime, all-ages audience, as it will be presented at a family-friendly festival

 

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Dear Ironside State School,

 

Please see the exciting message below from our Arts Captain, Ditte Healy:

 

I’m Indooroopilly State High School’s Arts Captain, and we wanted to contact you in regards to our school’s production of SpongeBob the Musical, taking place this week.

As you probably know, many of your students will be coming to Indooroopilly State High School in the coming years and being able to see a production from our school might give them an insight into what they can look forward to.

It would be greatly appreciated if teachers could play the short intro and trailer videos to their classes over the next day or so.

Attached are some of our leads who have made a little video introducing the show, as well as a 2-minute-long trailer for the show:

 

 Spongebob Musical Promo - Click this link to present to your classes. 

If students are keen to watch the show, they can purchase their tickets on the school website. Our show times this week are:

  • Thursday Opening night 7pm
  • Friday 7pm
  • Saturday Matinee 12pm and Closing night 7pm

We are super excited to present this to our community!

 

Kind Regards,

Ditte Healy

Arts Captain,

Indooroopilly State High School