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Balmoral, Queensland
Balmoral is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the Balmoral had a population of 3,893 people. Geography Balmoral is located east of the Brisbane CBD. History The name ''Balmoral'' is an anglicisation of ''Baile Mhoireil which is Scottish Gaelic for 'beautiful residence' or 'majestic castle'. On 25 June 1927, Panorama Heights estate containing 53 reserved sites was auctioned by Thornton and Pearce. The estate was located on Fifth Avenue, Balmoral. Balmoral State High School opened on 3 February 1958. On Sunday 12 December 1915 Archbishop James Duhig laid the foundation stone for a Catholic school in Bulimba. Saints Peter and Paul's Catholic School was operated by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan and opened to an estimated 200 students on 3 February 1916. On Sunday 6 February 1916 Duhig returned to bless and officially open the school. The school is now located within the boundaries of Balmoral. In 1996 John Power was appointed the first lay prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEST
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00). Time is regulated by the individual state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Australia's external territories observe different time zones. Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Australian colonies adopted it. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory use Eastern Standard Time. Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: South Australia, New South Wales, Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisters Of The Good Samaritan
The Congregation of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, colloquially known as the "Good Sams", is a Roman Catholic congregation of religious women commenced by Bede Polding, OSB, Australia’s first Catholic bishop, in Sydney in 1857. The congregation was the first religious congregation to be founded in Australia. The sisters form an apostolic institute that follows the Rule of Saint Benedict. They take their name from the well-known gospel parable of the Good Samaritan. History Under the guidance of Polding’s co-founder, Mother Scholastica Gibbons, a Sister of Charity, the sisters cared for needy, homeless women at a refuge, the House of the Good Shepherd in Sydney, and orphans at the Roman Catholic Orphan School, a government institution at Parramatta. Foundations were made throughout Sydney and New South Wales as bishops urgently requested staff for Catholic schools. The first foundation outside New South Wales was made at Port Pirie, South Australia, in 1890. Under the le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great South East
''The Great South East'' is a Queensland-based lifestyle program screening on the Seven Network which screened from 1997 until 2016. It was replaced by a similarly themed show ''The Great Day Out'' in 2017. The half-hour-long program showcases tourist attractions in the south-eastern corner of the state surrounding the state capital Brisbane. The shows were produced by 7 Productions Queensland and screened on Sundays at 5:30pm. They often aired alongside similarly themed Queensland lifestyle programs ''Creek To Coast'' and ''Queensland Weekender''. In November 2019, the Seven Network announced ''The Great Day Out'' had been axed, with the final episodes screening in early 2020. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it is the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. The Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programing—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2022, the Seven Network is the highest-rated television network in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Headquarters Seven's admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Edwards
Laurel Edwards (born 1 October 1966) is an Australian television presenter, radio announcer and singer. Career Edwards' radio career began in 1992, commencing work at Brisbane radio station 4KQ, where she remained until 2022.(18 May 2017Laurel celebrates on-air milestone ''radioinfo''. Retrieved 1 September 2018. In 2005, Edwards was named as Brisbane's longest serving female breakfast radio presenter. 4KQ marked Edwards' 25th anniversary with the station in 2017. Edwards' first television job was hosting Nine Network children's program ''OK for Kids'' in 1987. she was a presenter on Seven Network travel show '' The Great Day Out''. She is the sole remaining original presenter on the show, having been with the program since it was launched as ''The Great South East'' in 1997. Lawrence, Elissa (22 May 2017Laurel Edwards: Reflections over a 25-year career ''The Courier-Mail'', News Corp Australia. Retrieved 1 September 2018. Personal life Edwards met Troy Cassar-Daley a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawn Bowls
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-green bowls") or convex or uneven (for "crown green bowls"). It is normally played outdoors (although there are many indoor venues) and the outdoor surface is either natural grass, artificial turf or cotula (in New Zealand). History Bowls is a variant of the ''boules'' games (Italian ''Bocce''), which, in their general form, are of ancient or prehistoric origin. Ancient Greek variants are recorded that involved throwing light objects (such as flat stones, coins, or later also stone balls) as far as possible. The aspect of tossing the balls to approach a target as closely as possible is recorded in ancient Rome. This game was spread to Roman Gaul by soldiers or sailors. A Roman sepulchre in Florence shows people playing this game, stooping d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morningside State School
Morningside State School is a heritage-listed state school at 67 Pashen Street, Morningside, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1925 to 1926. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 April 2018. History Morningside State School opened in 1926, on its current site at 67 Pashen Street, Morningside, about northeast of the Brisbane CBD. The school is important in demonstrating the evolution of state education and its associated architecture. It retains: * four connected sectional school buildings ** Block C, 1926 ** Blocks B, 1927, extended 1958 ** Blocks D, 1927, extended ** Block L, 1930 * a Depression-era brick infants school building (Block A, 1937) * two connected highset timber school buildings ** Block E, 1956 ** Block F, 1956, extended 1957 set in landscaped grounds, with: * a poured-concrete retaining wall (1939) to Pashen Street * tennis courts (1939) * a WWII memorial to The Rats of Tobruk The school has a strong and ongoing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulimba State School
Bulimba State School is a heritage-listed private-school at 261 Oxford Street, Bulimba, Queensland, Bulimba, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1915 to 1955. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 26 November 1999. History Bulimba State School was first established in 1866 and contains several generations of buildings and structures that have been erected by the Department of Public Works (Queensland), Department of Public Works to meet the growing needs of the community and are representative of some of the developments in education policy in Queensland since that time. Bulimba State School includes the teaching of the language Italian, which was met with high levels of controversy from students, parents, and the wider public. It was deemed a terrible decision to include this as a subject by an astonishing 98% of all citizens of Bulimba. In addition, teaching Italian to young children is an overall waste of time. Prior to the establishment of the Bulimba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Education
Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, or SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates their individual differences, Disability, disabilities, and special needs. This involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials, and accessible settings. These interventions are designed to help individuals with special needs achieve a higher level of personal Self-sustainability, self-sufficiency and success in school and in their community, which may not be available if the student were only given access to a Traditional education, typical classroom education. Special education aims to provide accommodated education for disabled students such as learning disability, learning disabilities, learning difficulties (such as dyslexia), communication disorders, emo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Curriculum, Assessment And Reporting Authority
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is the independent statutory authority responsible for the development of a national curriculum, a national assessment program, and a national data collection and reporting program that supports learning for Australian students. ACARA's work is carried out in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, including teachers, principals, governments, State and Territory education authorities, professional education associations, community groups and the general public. It was established in 2008 by an Act of the Australian Federal Parliament. The authority is also responsible for the My School website and NAPLAN The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is a series of tests focused on basic skills that are administered to Australian students in year 3, 5, 7 and 9. These standardised tests assess students' reading, writing, l ... testing. Progress of the development of each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Government
The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy was formed in 1859 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended from time to time. Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, Queensland has been a State of Australia, with the Constitution of Australia regulating the relationships between all state and territory governments and the Australian Government. Under the Australian Constitution, all states and territories (including Queensland) ceded powers relating to certain matters to the federal government. The government is influenced by the Westminster system and Australia's federal system of government. The Governor of Queensland, as the representative of Charles III, King of Australia, holds nominal executive power, although in practice only performs ceremonial duties. In practice executive power lies with the Premier and Cabinet. The Cabinet of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balmoral State High School
, motto_translation = By wisdom and courage / With purpose and spirit , city = Balmoral , state = Queensland , country = Australia , coordinates = , established = 1958BSHS - Principal's welcome retrieved 2 February 2012 , type = , , , |
