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Subscriber only As the 2021 school year begins, the new Year 12 student leaders of Maryborough State High School are seizing every education opportunity they can. Tayla Butcher, Tia Bryce, Genevieve Schwarzrock and Campbell Done are excited to be leading their school into the new year, despite the looming COVID-19 pandemic. I think we ll have to be mindful of everything that happened last year and try make changes to our normal responsibilities to accommodate for grade 12, Ms Schwarzrock said. She said last year s pandemic experience had prepared students to face unexpected challenges and was one major experience the leadership team was taking into 2021.
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Subscriber only Maryborough State High School welcomed 241 new year seven students in the largest group of new students since the school was founded. For new year seven student Daniel Clayton, the new school year was a fresh start at a new school and he looked forward to the school s soccer academy and sporting program. For new student Ethan Neilsen, starting high school was exciting because students were able to travel between different classes and not be stuck in the same room all day. He looked forward to studying science at the school. Deputy Principal Damien Blyth was optimistic the new cohort would have a normal school year, as opposed to last year.
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Subscriber only The driving force behind the Happy Valley Community Organisation, the creator of a signing choir, an anti-straw campaigner and a historian have been honoured in the Fraser Coast Australia Day Awards. It is an honour to be able to present the awards to such a diverse and hardworking group of recipients, Fraser Coast mayor George Seymour said. The recipients have volunteered thousands of hours of their time to the Fraser Coast community over many years which is one of the reasons our community is so vibrant, resilient and caring. Australia Day is a good opportunity for the community to reflect on the thousands of people who volunteer at the hundreds of organisations, groups and sporting clubs across the region.
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In just five years, Maryborough State High School has almost doubled its student enrolments.
Principal Simon Done said at the start of term 1 this year the school will have 1140 students.
“It’s a reaffirmation of the vision and direction the school is going in, and the community is supporting our vision of valuing, supporting and valuing every student.”
“I’ve always anticipated if things rolled out the way we planned to it would have an increase in enrolments.”
“I think it s a testament of the capacity of state education, Maryborough State High is the largest school in Maryborough and its able to match it with any other school, regional or rural in Queensland.”