Noosa District State High School
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Noosa District State High School is a twin campus high school
based in Cooroy
and Pomona, Queensland
.
The school was established in 1963, and has approximately 1250 students. It is the longest-established secondary school in Noosa area.
The school has two campuses in Cooroy (head campus) and Pomona. The Pomona Campus was originally the Cooroora Secondary College before the two schools merged. Years 8-9 are taught at the Pomona campus while all years are taught at the Cooroy campus.
The school's motto is Excellence through Diversity, previously Industria Vincit Omnia (Industry Conquers All).
The school offers certificates in Hospitality and Business Communication and Technolog, Event Production,Media and each year, runs the Australian Business Week (ABW) program for its Year 11 students.
The school has six houses - Borumba, Cooroora, Eerwah, Nandroya, Pinbarren and Tinbeerwah. The houses are named after the mountain ranges in the school's area.
The studio was named after a machine from the long-running science fiction
television
programme Doctor Who
. The machine travels in time and space, and stands for Time and Relative Dimensions in Space
.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
based in Cooroy
Cooroy, Queensland
Cooroy is a town in Queensland, Australia, located in the northern Sunshine Coast hinterland about west of Noosa Heads. Cooroy's name came from Cooroy Mountain, which was originally called Coorooey, from the Aboriginal word for possum, kurui....
and Pomona, Queensland
Pomona, Queensland
Pomona is a town located at the base of Mount Cooroora at the northern end of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The town was originally called Pinbarren siding and was renamed Pomona in 1906, after the Roman goddess of fruit and orchards...
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The school was established in 1963, and has approximately 1250 students. It is the longest-established secondary school in Noosa area.
The school has two campuses in Cooroy (head campus) and Pomona. The Pomona Campus was originally the Cooroora Secondary College before the two schools merged. Years 8-9 are taught at the Pomona campus while all years are taught at the Cooroy campus.
The school's motto is Excellence through Diversity, previously Industria Vincit Omnia (Industry Conquers All).
The school offers certificates in Hospitality and Business Communication and Technolog, Event Production,Media and each year, runs the Australian Business Week (ABW) program for its Year 11 students.
The school has six houses - Borumba, Cooroora, Eerwah, Nandroya, Pinbarren and Tinbeerwah. The houses are named after the mountain ranges in the school's area.
Administration
The school's principal is Mr Barry Dittman whose administration team consists of Stacey Daveson and Mr Ian Yarham .Hall
The hall on the Cooroy campus is the biggest in the Noosa area, and is used by many private companies such as dance studios, music schools, and other state schools. It has advanced lighting and audio systems with fifty static lighting channels and a total of twenty-nine audio channels with twenty Sends, five Receives, and two communication channels. The stage was designed to be used for large productions with its many lighting bars, numerous intelligent lights, and extra power circuits for the bigger shows. The hall can seat approximately one thousand people. The technical side of the hall is run the by the senior live productions classes.Studio
Noosa District State High School was one of first state schools to get a fully functional recording studio as part of grants from the Bligh government, the studio broadcast audio throughout the school during breaks, it is also capable of recording a six track band, and videos using a green screen, the studio was designed by students and Peter Gorman. The Studio, known as TARDIS, is one of the newest additions to the school grounds.The studio was named after a machine from the long-running science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
programme Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
. The machine travels in time and space, and stands for Time and Relative Dimensions in Space
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
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