Our story
Woogaroo Creek State School was constructed in 2022 and opened its doors to students at the start of the 2023 school year.
Our school name recognises Woogaroo Creek; our natural Eastern boundary of our school grounds, and a significant waterway that flows all the way to the Brisbane River and beyond. Woogaroo Creek is the site of significant cultural history for our local area.
Woogaroo Creek is proudly represented in our school colours, school logo, and student and staff uniforms.
Our school houses recognise the local flora surrounding our school; the Acacia (yellow), Banksia (green), Melaleuca (blue) and Grevillea (red).
Our logo design
Colours: Green representing the land on which our school is built, blue representing Woogaroo Creek, yellow representing the farming history of the land on which the school is built.
Design: Three figures REACHing new heights; students, staff and families as partners in learning. Circular in shape to represent REACHing together to grow students as conscious global citizens and life long learners.
Our uniform design
Colours: Green representing the land on which our school is built, blue representing Woogaroo Creek, yellow representing the farming history of the land on which the school is built, white representing local floral and faunal species.
Design: Incorporating curved shapes to represent Woogaroo Creek flowing through our grounds.
Our house shirt designs
Acacia
Banksia
Grevillea
Melaleuca
Our house designs, represent the local flora surrounding our school; the Acacia (yellow), Banksia (green), Melaleuca (blue) and Grevillea (red).
Full house artwork design
Jennifer Kent is a Quandamooka Jinibara Darumbul woman who has resided in Ipswich for over a decade and has lived in Mt Isa, Cloncurry, Townsville, Mackay and Beenleigh. She has kinship with the Waluwarra of North West Queensland. With a background in Education, Jennifer enjoys sharing First Nations cultural art styles with students of all ages.
Credit: Design notes supplied by J Kent, 2022.
Woogaroo Creek, a tributary to Maiwar, the Brisbane River, runs through the land. Augustine Heights Ridge overlooks the surrounding areas.
The location of the school grounds.
Our mascot
Rocky, the rock wallaby, is our school mascot.
The brush-tailed rock-wallaby, Petrogale penicillata, is part of our local fauna. It’s status under the
Nature Conservation Act 1992, is vulnerable.
It’s status under the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is vulnerable. It naturally occurs in Queensland and interstate, and is a species in our local area.
Rocky encourages students to wear their school uniform with pride and REACH new heights each day.
Our REACH expectations
At Woogaroo Creek State School our students, staff, families and visitors will REACH each day.
REACH stands for: RESPECTUL, EMPOWERED, ACCEPTING, COLLABORATIVE, HONOURABLE.
Our Whole School Approach to Discipline (WSATD) and Student Code of Conduct (SCOC), maps our school expectations, processes and metalanguage to set students up for success each day. These documents are available on our school website.
Through our words, attitudes and actions, we respect:
- self
- others
- property
- the environment.
Empowered students are:
- ready to learn
- have a go
- push through the pit
- feed back and grow.
Accept yourself: dare to be different, dare to be unique.
Accept others: diversity enriches our world.
We work with others to succeed.
We have the courage to do the right thing and we have the courage to encourage.
Students are explicitly taught, unpack and practise, these values across all areas of the school, to ensure they have a deep understanding of what REACHing looks like, sounds like and feels like at our school.
This sets our students up for success each day.
There is no guessing at WCSS!