Queensland Children's Hospital School

02/09/2024

It's Teacher Aide Appreciation Week this week. Take the time to thank these amazing people who work in our schools, alongside a number of support staff including admin and IT technicians. Thank you for all that you do in making a difference each and every day! 🎉🎊

Woree State High School
Rockhampton Special School
Townsville Community Learning Centre
Robina State High School
Harristown State High School
Marsden State High School
Currimundi Special School

01/09/2024

This week is Child Protection Week, and the theme is 'Every conversation matters.' Conversations can help us understand issues, craft solutions, value community knowledge, and build the brains and social connections of children and young people.

This National Child Protection Week remember, speak up – and speak together – about what needs to change for every child in every community to have a fair go.

This artwork was created by Woolwonga, Uwanwul woman Karina Jeffrey. Central to the artwork are the hands representing the children of Australia, and our need to provide care, protection and support. Encompassed by a circle of inclusion, intertwined with meaningful storytelling circles, we see the power of stories, of sharing experiences, and of community engagement in promoting child safety and well-being. What we say and share matters.

30/08/2024

Check out these 📷photos taken from the QCHS's Year 5-6 classroom yesterday!

The Royal Australian Air Force put on a special show for the kids at the Children's Health Queensland Hospital as they rehearsed for Saturday's Riverfire 🎆. Annette, our awesome Year 5-6 teacher, took these incredible photos of the C-17A Globemaster ✈️and Australian Army 's ARH Tiger 🚁.

Thanks for the sneak preview Royal Australian Air ForceRoyal Australian Air Force and Australian ArmyAustralian Army. 😉

29/08/2024

Meet our Ward 5B/5C Teaching Team from Queensland Children's Hospital. Here they are getting into the Book Week festivities and brightening the lives of those in outpatients. Can you guess which characters they are?

The Children's Book Council of Australia

29/08/2024

🇦🇺 Go Aussies, Go!!! We're so pumped that the Paralympics are finally here! 🎉

There are a couple of amazing athletes our kids and teachers at the Queensland Children’s Hospital School want to send a special message to - Lewis Bishop & Brenden Hall, this one's for you! 💚💛

Lewis - the Juiced crew and kids are beyond proud to see one of our 'Hall of Fame' superstars living out their dreams in green and gold!

We're cheering you on every step of the way, and remember - podium or not, you're a hero to all of us! 🦸‍♂️

28/08/2024

Thanks to our friends at the Toowoomba Hospital Foundation for supporting our education program recently. It was a great way to start our Book Week celebrations.

Harristown State High School

HAPPY BOOK WEEK // In celebration of Book Week, we’re highlighting a recent donation made to the Toowoomba Hospital Paeds Wards, thanks to our mates at Somerset Storyfest! 📚

🌟 We were able to gift a number of brand-new books and teaching resources to Jenny from the Queensland Children's Hospital School Education Program.

Jenny is a teacher for the Toowoomba Paediatic Class who works with local children who require ongoing medical care to ensure continuity of learning for students while in hospital. 👩‍🏫

💜 Through donations like this from Somerset Storyfest, we’re able to ensure all children can celebrate their love of reading during Book Week.

27/08/2024

Our Hospital Education Programs will be closed this Friday for the Student Free Day.

📢 Don’t forget this Friday 30 August is a student free day.

27/08/2024

Our very best wishes to our past student Lewis Bishop - from QCHS Brisbane to Paris Paralympics! Following a boating accident, Lewis joined the Year 3-4 class at QCHS in 2015 while receiving treatment and rehabilitation. Lewis is best remembered by his teachers and peers as positively unstoppable! His optimistic, energetic and fun-loving nature brought joy and inspiration to the halls of our school every day. No-one who had the great fortune to meet Lewis during his recovery at QCH would be surprised to see him now representing his country in Paris. Lewis will compete alongside fellow past student and flag-bearer 🇦🇺, Brenden Hall. Though great mates, Lewis and Brenden will face off in the pool 🏊‍♂️as they both go for gold 🥇 in the butterfly 🦋.

We will all be cheering passionately from Oz and whether they make the podium or not, Lewis and Brenden are heroes to us all here at QCHS!

Don't forget the Opening Ceremony will be telecast tomorrow morning at 4am!

📷 Lewis, 2015, QCHS Junior Campus
📷 Lewis with Brenden Hall, Aussie flag bearer 🇦🇺, great friend and mentor
📷 Lewis and his coach, 2024, heading to the Games

Juiced TV
Queensland Department of Education
Australian Olympic Team
Australian Paralympic Team

26/08/2024

This Friday, 30th August, is 'Wear it Purple' day.

Wear It Purple strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people. 🏳️‍🌈🌈

25/08/2024

This week is Speech Pathology Week, and the theme is 'Communicate your way'! Did you know that there are an estimated 1.2 million Australians who have communication support needs?

Let's celebrate by thanking all of the wonderful 'speechies' that we work with across our hospital programs in Queensland. Thank you!

22/08/2024

We finally found Wally this Book Week! Here he is at our Ipswich Hospital Education Program alongside our Paeds teacher, Wednesday Addams! Great work everyone!

The Children's Book Council of Australia
West Moreton Health

21/08/2024

Students from our South Brisbane campus recently explored the properties of oil, water and gas to make a lava lamp. National Science Week last week was the perfect opportunity for students to observe, measure and predict the changes that would occur when the materials mixed to create the desired bubbling effects.

20/08/2024

Meet Mechilyn. Mechilyn is one of our students in our Townsville Hospital Education Program. Here he is working hard in the classroom, attached to the Paediatric Ward at Townsville University Hospital.

Mechilyn is photographed using informal units to measure blocks, programming a We Do 2.0 Lego helicopter and using metric units to measure everyday items.

Great job, Mechilyn!

Townsville Hospital and Health Service
Townsville Community Learning Centre

19/08/2024

The Year 3/4 Class at our South Brisbane campus have celebrated Science Week by discovering the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef with a fleet of advanced underwater robots!

Students were able to pilot a robot in live time from a web browser, around a reef situated off Green Island, near Cairns. Our visitor, Jason from SeeUnderTheSea, is a Coral Watch ambassador and he brought in an array of equipment that his team use to explore and film in reefs all over the Pacific Ocean.

Teleportal
CoralWatch

18/08/2024

It's finally here! The week when everyone gets to dress up as their favourite book character. Check out our team at the Rockhampton Hospital Paediatric ward who jumped into the Book Week celebrations.

Rockhampton Special School
CQ Health

15/08/2024

Teacher Talk Series 3 was delivered last week, live from Adelaide. Proud to share that it was our biggest one yet, with over 370 participants from across Australia.

The professional learning program was recognised as a national finalist in the Australian Education Awards last week in Sydney. Congratulations to all involved in this outstanding series.

The Educator
Queensland Department of Education

14/08/2024

Last week, a number of staff travelled to Adelaide for the 2024 HELP (Health, Educators, Learners, Parents) Conference. The HELP Alliance, supported by Ronald McDonald House Charities, proudly represents and brings together a strong network of practitioners in hospital education across Australia and New Zealand. Various staff presented at the conference showcasing the great work across the Queensland Hospital Education Programs. Thanks to our wonderful colleagues in Adelaide for helping to bring together an amazing program.


www.helpalliance.au

Ronald McDonald House Charities Australia
Hospital School SA

13/08/2024

12/08/2024

Students in the Year 5/6 classroom at QCHS recently created some tin foil Olympians. Each of the students chose an Olympic sport to represent in their artworks - a sport in which they dreamt about one day representing their country! Well done everyone - dream big and dream often! 🥇🎉🛹🏋️🤺🏄‍♀️🏇🤸

11/08/2024

The Olympic Games have been in full swing and so have our students at the Cairns Hospital Education Program. We have been learning about Olympic history and tracking our medal tally. Rafael didn’t miss the opportunity to play a mini game of hockey with Miss Kym and modified javelin with Miss Helen. 🏑🥇🥈🥉

Woree State High School
Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service

08/08/2024

Renae McBrien, QCH’s Sustainability Leader, popped in on the kids of QCHS recently to check the school’s Containers for Change bins. Renae was thrilled to find two bins full of containers that staff and students have saved from landfill. Renae reported that the school contributed 320 containers into the Containers for Change recycling program and was thrilled that there was not one coffee cup or contaminated product in either bin from the Junior and Senior Campuses!

QCHS Student Reps, Katy and Lucas handed over the containers and were thrilled to learn that the school’s contribution will be put towards a ground-breaking (and Australian first) program to recycle our hospital’s discarded blister packs (those little plastic shells that protect tablets and capsules from moisture).

Congratulations to everyone at QCHS for making a difference!

Containers for Change QLD
Children's Health Queensland

07/08/2024

This week is Support Staff Appreciation Week - a week when we recognise the immense impact that our support staff have in our hospital programs.

Thank you to all our school's superheroes! We couldn't do what we do without you!

06/08/2024

Did you know that the National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence has a new name? It is now called Bullying No Way: National Week of Action and will be acknowledged across all of next week. This year's theme, 'Everyone Belongs' aligns well with our school's values: equity, integrity, collaboration, innovation and respect; as well as more broadly with our strategic direction as a Department of Education - Equity and Excellence.

Queensland Department of Education
Teach Queensland

05/08/2024

Juiced TV recently ventured up to Far North Queensland. Check out some of their BTS highlights here!

Woree State High School

04/08/2024

Welcome to our Potato Athlete Olympic Village, created and constructed by the students at the Queensland Children's Hospital School Junior Campus in South Brisbane. Our potato athletes are supporting our students to explore using measurement through Olympic events. Students love to count the medal tally each morning as well as making sure their athletes enjoy visiting all the places in the Olympic Village. All of them are champions!

04/08/2024

Today is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day. National Children’s Day gives all Australians the opportunity to show their support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and learn about the impact that culture, family and community play in the life of every child. This year's theme is ‘Strong in Culture, Stronger Together’.


SNAICC-National Voice for our Children

01/08/2024

A big thank you to QUT and author Katie Buchhorn for inspiring our students to 'Illustrate their Future' as part of this year’s National Science Week. Charlotte and Olivia are thinking about the wondrous world in which we live and all the extraordinary adventures that await them. Charlotte dreams of being a paediatric surgeon and Olivia is going to specialise as a dialysis nurse.

They invite you to think about what your future might be and to join Katie’s online Science Week event. Get in quickly as student entries are provided with a copy of Katie’s book “Wondrous Worlds: The Extraordinary Adventures of a Curious Mathematician”. The competition closes on 16th August, don’t miss out!

For more information: https://www.scienceweek.net.au/event/illustrate-your-future/

30/07/2024

As we reflect on the vibrant festivities of NAIDOC Week a few weeks ago, students at our Logan Adolescent Day Program have showcased their incredible talents and heartfelt contributions. Throughout this special week, their creative space buzzed with enthusiasm as students delved deep into the rich tapestry of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, guided by the stories and traditions from our First Nations Peoples.

Beyond NAIDOC Week, their creative space continues to shine brightly with the diverse talents of the students. In their individual explorations, they've crafted artworks that are as diverse as they are inspiring. From bold strokes to delicate details, each piece reflects the unique vision and creativity of its creator.

Marsden State High School

29/07/2024

Take a look at the incredible artwork produced by students at the Yannanda Day Program in Toowoomba. Their project was to design a skateboard deck that incorporated the characteristics of one of the art movements they studied in class. You can see echoes of Pop Art, Surrealism and Cubism in their designs. Well done to our students for producing such creative pieces.