IT’S THAT time of year again. The weather is warming up, the footy finals are looming and…… it’s educational awards season. That’s right – the spectacular Coolum State High School Celebration of Excellence will be held on the evening of…
Looking to the future! AT TIMES, as a school Principal, it’s important to cast forward in terms of the future of education in our country and look at where things are going. The first thing I can say, categorically, is…
“It’s gold, Australia, gold!” HOW MANY people, like me, have sat up much later than they should have recently watching the Olympic Games from one of the world’s greatest cities – Paris? What about the mix of traditional Olympic sports…
THEY’VE done it again! Coolum State High has just distributed our report cards, and once agai,n our students are setting benchmarks for their outstanding results. Nowhere is this more true than in the all-important year 12 year. In the highly…
HAVE you seen the movie ‘Oppenheimer’? I’m sure many of you have and for those who haven’t it tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer who led the ultra-secret Manhattan Project that led to the development of the first atomic…
COOLUM State High School continues to go from strength to strength with the successes of our students coming one after the other. Nowhere was this more evident than last Thursday evening when we hosted our annual Midwinter Ball. On a…
I HAVE read with interest recently of the ‘Let Them Be Kids’ campaign that is being promoted by The Courier Mail and other newspapers. The campaign aims to restrict social media use for children under 16, with an even stronger…
Well, we are off and racing at Coolum State High School. This year, for the first time in our history, we have crossed over 1500 students as we continue to show steady growth within a difficult market for students on…
SURELY, one of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the gift of music. Music really is the essence of life and to be able to make music must be very special. Every great school I’ve seen has…
A GOOD education is just so important, don’t you think? There has been so much research done into the benefits of a good education and, really, is there anything more important that we can do than to become as well…