Annandale State Primary School is a large school situated in the Townsville suburb of Annandale

Annandale, Queensland

Annandale is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It borders the southern side of Ross River. It is the biggest suburb of Townsville and thus the most populated in the city...

. The suburb is located on the southern approaches to Townsville across the road from Lavarack Barracks

Lavarack Barracks

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 and bordered by Ross River.

Annandale was established in 1998 and boasts landscaped grounds surrounding fully airconditioned

Air conditioning

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 buildings. All buildings are also cabled for Internet

Internet

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 access. A major project during 2005/6 was the completion of a roof over the school's two tennis courts.

Julie Kornman served as the first principal of Annandale State school from its founding in 1998-2002. She laid the building blocks for the school's essential air-conditioning and internet fibre optics programs.

Annandale offers a wide ranging curriculum for students from Pre-School to Year 7. Students complete four units of study per year and are grouped according to their age. Major foci for the next three years include the development of whole school approaches to Gifted Education

Gifted education

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, ICT

Information and communication technologies

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, Literacy

Literacy

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 and Outcomes planning.

Students may also elect to participate in the school sport and music programs. Annandale participates in many sports including Soccer, Netball

Netball

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, Rugby League

Rugby league

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 and Hockey

Hockey

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. Students may also elect to learn a musical instrument

Musical instrument

A musical instrument is a device created or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates back to the...

 such as the Violin

Violin

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, Trumpet

Trumpet

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, Flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

 or the Drum

Drum

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s.