Bremer State High School
Bremer State High School | |
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Latin: Una Via Vitae meanig one of life's path's | |
Established | 1959 |
Principal | Ross Bailey |
Enrolment | 2000 (2022) |
Campus | Urban (Churchill) |
Colour(s) | Yellow, royal blue and grey |
Website | bremershs |
Bremer State High School (Bremer SHS) is a public, co-educational high school located in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.
Relocation
Bremer State High School was originally built at 73 Blackstone Road, Silkstone (27°37′15″S 152°46′48″E / 27.620825°S 152.780042°E) from 1959 until it was relocated in 2011.[1]
It was announced in March 2009 that Bremer State High School would be relocated.[2] The new school was constructed on 133-135 Warwick Road next to the Ipswich campus of the University of Queensland (subsequently a campus of the University of Southern Queensland) at a cost of approximately $73 million[3] which was part of the Queensland Government's $850 million State Schools of Tomorrow initiative.[4] To accommodate the move the golf course adjacent to the new school had to undergo a $1 million redesign. The move occurred due to ongoing maintenance problems at the school's former site caused by land movement and active soils.[5] The new school opened in 2011.
Due to this relocation, the school subsequently underwent several changes such as a new uniform which included a one-off foundation shirt. Bremer State High School was also selected as one of the pilot schools for the move of Year 7s to high school for 2013,[6] as part of a push for a national curriculum which would see all Year 7s in Queensland at high school in 2015.[7] This pilot program would also allow all Year 7s access to a 32GB Wi-Fi version of the Apple iPad 2 tablet if Anna Bligh were to be elected in the 2012 Queensland state election.[8]
In late February 2012, the old campus was sold from the Queensland Government to the
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