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Welcome
Numinbah Valley State
School is a
co-educational school offering classes from Year 1 to Year 7 under the
direction of Education Queensland.
Our school is a small school with a long and cherished
history. Our unique setting offers a multi-age
curriculum, and close personal relationships between students,
parents and staff.
The school grounds are located on the Nerang River
in beautiful surroundings. The school emblem features Egg Rock, which
is a significant geographical remnant of the volcanic activity of
nearby Mount
Warning .
School History
Public schooling in Numinbah Valley
commenced in 1927, at the local School of Arts Hall. The present school
building was opened in 1934 with one (1) teacher and eighteen (18)
pupils, and was initially called the Numinbah State
School , but this was altered to its present name in 1939.
Miss Annie Healy, the school's first teacher, who is well remembered by
many of the older people in the Valley, taught from 1927 until 1954.
Over the years the school's enrolment has fluctuated between five and
forty-one pupils, but until late in 1994, had always been a one-teacher
country' school.
Due to a constant increase in enrolments since the
beginning of 1990, and the closure of nearby Natural Bridge
State School
in December 1991, a second teacher was eventually appointed to the
school in October, 1994. Approval was also given for the relocation of
the Natural
Bridge State
School building
to the Numinbah site. The remodelled, heritage-style', two-classroom
building was ready for use by January, 1991, and officially opened on 1
st of April, that year.
Further historical information regarding the school and local area can
be found in Numinbah
Valley A Social
and Natural History. (1840's 1988), a copy
of which is in the school library.
School Values
The curriculum at Numinbah Valley
State School
is aligned with the national framework for Values
Education in Australian Schools. We incorporate these
values into our teaching and learning framework.
- Freedom
- Integrity
- Care and Compassion
- Tolerance
- Doing Your Best
- Honesty and
Trustworthiness
- Responsibility
- Respect
- Fair Go
We believe in
communicating high expectations for individual achievement and
behaviour and in developing the skills of staff to promote responsible
behaviour in our students.
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