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List Of Schools In West Moreton
This is a list of schools in the West Moreton region of South East Queensland, Australia. The region consists of the Lockyer Valley, Somerset and Scenic Rim regions and the rural part of the City of Ipswich. Prior to 2015, the Queensland education system consisted of primary schools, which accommodated students from Kindergarten to Year 7 (ages 5–13), and high schools, which accommodate students from Years 8 to 12 (ages 12–18). However, from 2015, Year 7 became the first year of high school. State schools State primary schools State high schools and colleges Defunct state schools Private schools Catholic schools In Queensland, Catholic primary schools are usually (but not always) linked to a parish. Prior to the 1970s, most schools were founded by religious institutes, but with the decrease in membership of these institutes, together with major reforms inside the church, lay teachers and administrators began to take over the schools, a process which completed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Moreton
West Moreton is a region of the Australian state of Queensland, consisting of the entire rural western portion of South East Queensland. It sits inland from both the Brisbane metropolitan area and the Gold Coast and to the east of the Darling Downs. Much of the region lies in the Great Dividing Range. The name appears in the names of many community organisations and is used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, although is not widely used otherwise due to the prevalence of South East Queensland in planning and other documents. Geography The West Moreton region consists of the following local government areas. Some definitions, such as the Australian Standard Geographical Classification used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, do not include the rural part of the City of Ipswich. Major towns * Beaudesert * Boonah * Esk * Gatton * Kilcoy * Laidley * Beechmont * Coominya * Fernvale * Glenore Grove * Grandchester * Grantham * Harrisville * Helidon * Kalbar *_Ipsw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canungra, Queensland
Canungra is a rural town and locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Canungra had a population of 1,229 people. Geography Located in South East Queensland, Canungra is situated in the Gold Coast hinterland, west of the Gold Coast and south of Brisbane. Mount Misery is on the north-western boundary of the locality with Biddadaba () rising to above sea level. Residents and businesses in Canungra get their water supply from the Canungra Creek, a tributary of the Albert River. The slopes around Canungra are steep and forested, with some cleared farmlands and rural homes in the flatter valley areas. History Nicknamed the "Valley of the Owls", one of the origins of the town's name comes from the Aboriginal word for small owls, "Caningera". The most notable owl found in the area is the Australian boobook owl, which appears in various logos and symbols associated with Canungra. However the word Cunungra comes from the Yugambeh word ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gleneagle, Queensland
Gleneagle is a rural locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Gleneagle had a population of 1,877 people. Geography The Logan River and the Mount Lindesay Highway pass through eastern parts of locality. Large sections of land are rural with some parts used for irrigated agriculture. A housing estate was established to the east of the highway. In the centre of Gleneagle is a large man-made dam called Lake Brabazon. The western boundary follows the Sydney–Brisbane railway line.Gin Gin, Queensland. History The locality takes its name from a cotton farm called ''Glen Eagles'' established in the 1860s by William Tutin Walker (1833-1920). Walker began as a manager on ''Townsvale'' established by Robert Towns who pioneered cotton growing in the Logan River valley. Townsvale was in the area of the present-day localities of Gleneagle and Veresdale. After Towns' death, Walker took over ''Townsvale''. St Joseph's Catholic Church was the first Catholic churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glamorgan Vale, Queensland
Glamorgan Vale is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Glamorgan Vale had a population of 404 people. Geography Glamorgan Vale is in the Lockyer Valley, west of the state capital, Brisbane. The township itself is prone to flooding in times of extreme weather events as it borders the Black Snake Creek a tributary of the Brisbane River. History A Wesleyan Methodist church opened on Tarampa Road on Sunday 20 August 1871. It was described as a "well built slab building, on a good site, and will seat about a hundred persons". It was erected by local people. Glamorgan Vale Post Office opened on 1 January 1872 and closed in 1972. Thomas Pratt from Somerset, England was the first postmaster. Pratt also had the licence for the Glamorgan hotel from 1880 to 1895 and again from 1898 to 1899. He and his family settled in Ipswich, naming their home Glamorganvale. The Hotel was redeveloped and now operates as the Bottletree Hote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gatton, Queensland
Gatton is a rural town and locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Gatton had a population of 7,101 people. It is the administrative centre of the Lockyer Valley situated in the Lockyer Valley of South East Queensland. Recently, the rural character of the Gatton area has started to be encroached on by the suburban sprawl of metropolitan Brisbane and Ipswich in the east and Toowoomba in the west. The Warrego Highway, which runs east–west through the Shire, has also experienced increasing strip development, with fuel outlets and commercial properties gradually spreading along the highway. History Prior to European settlement, the area was occupied by members of the Yuggera Aboriginal language group. Jagara is one of the Aboriginal languages of South-East Queensland. There is some uncertainty over the status of Jagara as a language, dialect, or a group or clan within the local government boundaries of Ipswich City Council, Locky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Heritage Register
The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. It is maintained by the Queensland Heritage Council. As at 5 April 2020 there are 1790 places on the Queensland Heritage Register, including the Story Bridge in Brisbane and the Ross River Meatworks Chimney in Townsville. Criteria For a place to be entered in the register, it must be nominated and then go through a process of assessment. There are three categories for inclusion: * State Heritage Place (the most common type of entry), e.g. the Charters Towers Courthouse * Archaeological Place, e.g. the First Brisbane Burial Ground in the vicinity of Skew Street, Brisbane * Protected Area, e.g. the shipwreck of the on Fraser Island Criteria for inclusion as a State Heritage Place For inclusion as a State Heritage Place on the Queensland Heritage Register, the place must satisfy one of the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hill, Queensland
Forest Hill is a rural town and locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Forest Hill had a population of 968 people. Geography The town is located west of the state capital, Brisbane and east of the regional centre of Toowoomba. Forest Hill railway station is an abandoned railway station on the Main Line railway (). There is an aircraft landing ground between Gatton Laidley Road and the railway line (). History In 1880, AJ Boyd purchased 975 acres (394.6 hectares) of land from the Queensland Government for reportedly five shillings an acre. The land was located approximately six kilometres south from the Main Line railway, towards Woodlands. Boyd named this property Forest Hill, after seeing Allan Cunningham's map of the region where he had marked a "forest hill". A stopping place was established on the Main Line railway to service the property called Boyd's Siding which later changed its name to Forest Hill. Forest Hill was recorded as a ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hill State School
Forest Hill State School is a state school with a heritage-listed teacher's residence at 15 Church Street, Forest Hill, Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Department of Public Works and built from 1892 to 1906 by Luder. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 1 May 2015. History Forest Hill Provisional School opened in January 1893 in a small timber teaching building which was built to a standard government design. The provisional school building was constructed during 1892 on a site in Church Street, in the agricultural settlement of Forest Hill. When a new state school building was constructed in 1898, the provisional school building was converted, with additions, into a teacher's residence, with further additions constructed . Although the state school teaching buildings (1898 and ) have since been replaced, the former provisional school building is still used as a teacher's residence, and two mature bunya trees (Arauca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flagstone Creek, Queensland
Flagstone Creek is a rural locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Flagstone Creek had a population of 220 people. Geography ''Flagstone Creek'' (the watercourse) flows through from west to north-east. History In 1840, the penal colony at Moreton Bay was being prepared to be turned into a free settlement (which ultimately became the city of Brisbane). As there was settlement already occurring on the Darling Downs, there was a need for Lieutenant Owen Gorman, the last commandant of the penal colony, to find a wagon route between the two locations, but the obstacle was the mountains of the Great Dividing Range. There was a route already known at Cunninghams Gap but it was not able to be used by a wagon. A convict John Sterry Baker had escaped from the penal colony in 1826 and had lived among the Goomburra Aboriginal people in the Lockyer Valley area and walked with them on a track to the top of the range. Having returned to the penal colony in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernvale, Queensland
Fernvale is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Fernvale had a population of 3,209 people. It is a rapidly developing rural township located within the urban footprint of the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009–2031. Geography Approximately west of Brisbane, Fernvale lies on the Brisbane River in the southern part of Somerset Region. The town acts as a centre for the adjacent areas of Fairney View, Vernor and Wivenhoe Pocket. History Aboriginal Fernvale falls within the area formerly occupied by the Indigenous Jagera people. Just upstream from Fernvale is a significant archaeological site known as Platypus Rockshelter, a double chambered weathered cavity in conglomerate cliff, now largely inundated by Wivenhoe Dam. The site was excavated as a salvage operation in the late 1970s. Excavation recovered thousands of stone artifacts, associated with large amounts of shellfish (predominantly freshwater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esk, Queensland
Esk is a town and locality in the Somerset Region in South East Queensland, Australia. In the , Esk had a population of 1,698 people. Geography Esk is approximately northwest of Ipswich on the Brisbane Valley Highway. It was named after the River Esk in Scotland and England. It is the administrative centre of the Somerset Region. The town of Esk is contained in the Queensland electoral district of Nanango. History Jagara (also known as Jagera, Yagara, Yugarabul, Yuggera and Yuggerabul) is one of the Aboriginal languages of South-East Queensland. There is some uncertainty over the status of Jagara as a language, dialect or perhaps a group or clan within the local government boundaries of Ipswich City Council, Lockyer Regional Council and the Somerset Regional Council. Esk formed part of the southern border of the Garumga clan of the Dalla tribe. The land around Esk was first explored by Captain Patrick Logan in 1830. The town was established to service the short-lived c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darlington, Queensland
Darlington is a rural locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Darlington had a population of 88 people. Geography The locality occupies a section of the upper Albert River valley where the river branches in two. The lower elevations in the north of Darlington are around above sea level with the highest ridges and peaks reaching . Mount Alexander rises in the north east where a series of ridges extend from the Lamington Plateau. Here the upper and steeper slopes remain vegetated. Large areas in the south were the terrain is less rugged have been cleared. In the west the high point along Jinbroken Range forms a border with Hillview and Christmas Creek. History Darlington Provisional School opened on 17 November 1890. On 1 January 1909 it became Darlingon State School. It closed in 1914. On 30 May 1938, a new Darlington State School opened. Readville Provisional School (also known as Widgee Creek School) opened on 1903. On 1 January 1909 it bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
