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Pine Rivers State High School
Pine Rivers State High School
Address
	Gympie Road; Strathpine, Queensland; Australia
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Type	State secondary school
Motto	"By Different Ways to Excellence"
School district	Greater Metropolitan Brisbane
Principal	Ms J. K. Deakin
Grades	8 - 12
Enrolment	1500 approx.
Campus	Suburban
Colour(s)	Green & Gold
Website	http://pineriversshs.eq.edu.au [1]

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Pine Rivers State High School is an Australian Queensland state secondary school situated north of Brisbane in the suburb of Strathpine.

Curriculum

The school provides students with a diverse range of subjects including -

English
Maths
Bridges (social experiences for Year 8)
General Sciences
Social Sciences
Performing farts
General farts
Physical in bed
Manufacturing
LOTE (Languages other than English) - German
General Technologies
Hospitality
Business
Information Processing Technology - IPT
Information Communication Technology - ICT
Accounting
Tourism
Early Childhood

Sporting Houses

Prior 2007, Pine Rivers High School was split into 4 sport houses. Upon enrollment of the school, students were put into the houses of either 'Tjingilli', 'Wandajina', 'Kuran' or 'Kuluan'. Each of the houses were allocated a primary colour that the students could chose to wear on sporting occasions, including swimming carnivals and athletics days. In 2007, a choice was made to abandon the previous system of houses and split the school cohort into 2 sporting houses. All students (and teachers) with a last name ranging from 'A' to 'M' were assigned to the 'Pine Panthers', whereas 'N' to 'Z' were allocated to the 'Rivers Rhinos'. The emblems of 'Pine Panthers' were the panther animal and the colour green, where 'Rivers Rhinos' adopted the rhino for it's emblem and yellow as it's colour.

Publications

Pine Rivers High School releases a fortnightly newsletter to the school community titled "Rivers Review".

Pine Rivers High School releases an annual yearbook called "The Pine Rivers Prism".

Events

Pine Rivers High School has an extensive background in both communal and school based events. The various cause of the events range from the general enjoyment of the students, to showcasing the school to the public. The school also promotes various public events including 'Harmony Day', 'Anzac Day' and 'NAIDOC Week'.

EXPO

The school hosts an annual expo, which primarily serves as a way of showcasing the school to the public. Members of the general public, typically graduates from primary schools, attend the EXPO to gain a general feel of the school's atmosphere, and can sample different activities available from the school curriculum. Traditionally, EXPO showcases aspects of departments including the school's multi award winning performing arts program. Typcially, the performances include the String Ensemble, Concert Band and Stage Band, and the various dance squads the school offers.

Musical

For over 30 years, Pine Rivers have annually presented a musical. While the production is decided by the members of the Performing Arts staff, the musical includes members of the school's students. After a vigorous creation period, the musical is performed to paying members of the general public. The pinnacle of student interaction came in 2005, when in 'Johnny Rock' over 300 students were involved in the staging. Pine Rivers' annual musical is held around the months of March-May, and is performed over a 3 day period of the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday on it's respective week, with a Matinée for local primary schools to view the Musical on the Tuesday morning. The school boasts the reputation of never performing the same musical twice, and celebrated it's unique performance standard in 2006 by staging a remake of the 'Wizard of Oz', 'The Wiz', to commemorate it's original performance years earlier. The musicials vary in theme, with the 33rd and most recent being a rendition of Burgertown, which was the first time the production was staged in Australia.

Walkathon

The school's major fundraiser, the Walkathon is a sporting/social event in which students walk 13km from the school, to local park Sweeney's Reserve, Petrie. Although optional, enthusiastic participation of the students typically result in a dress up to suit a certain theme that the students have selected. Throughout the years the themes have had extreme variations, from the 'Mad Hatter's Derby Day' to 'Sparrow Invades Neverland', whereas in recent years the school have adopted themes such as 'Heroes and Villains', and the most recent being Disney.

Notable alumni

Brenden Hall (Australian swimmer and Paralympian)
Jessicah Schipper (Australian swimmer and Olympian)
Dominic Spearman (Australian Gymnastics Champion for Pommel)
Liam De Young (Australian Olympic Hockey Team)

References

http://pineriversshs.eq.edu.au

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 ==Events==
-Pine Rivers High School holds annual events for the students general enjoyment and to showcase the school.
+Pine Rivers High School has an extensive background in both communal and school based events. The various cause of the events range from the general enjoyment of the students, to showcasing the school to the public. The school also promotes various public events including '[[Harmony Day]]', '[[Anzac Day]]' and '[[NAIDOC Week]]'.
 ===EXPO===
+The school hosts an annual expo, which primarily serves as a way of showcasing the school to the public. Members of the general public, typically graduates from primary schools, attend the EXPO to gain a general feel of the school's atmosphere, and can sample different activities available from the school curriculum. Traditionally, EXPO showcases aspects of departments including the school's multi award winning performing arts program. Typcially, the performances include the String Ensemble, Concert Band and Stage Band, and the various dance squads the school offers.
-The school's way of showcasing the school to the public.
 ===Musical===
+For over 30 years, Pine Rivers have annually presented a musical. While the production is decided by the members of the Performing Arts staff, the musical includes members of the school's students. After a vigorous creation period, the musical is performed to paying members of the general public. The pinnacle of student interaction came in 2005, when in '[[Johnny Rock]]' over 300 students were involved in the staging. Pine Rivers' annual musical is held around the months of [[March]]-[[May]], and is performed over a 3 day period of the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday on it's respective week, with a Matinée for local primary schools to view the Musical on the Tuesday morning. The school boasts the reputation of never performing the same musical twice, and celebrated it's unique performance standard in 2006 by staging a remake of the '[[Wizard of Oz]]', '[[The Wiz]]', to commemorate it's original performance years earlier. The musicials vary in theme, with the 33rd and most recent being a rendition of [[Burgertown]], which was the first time the production was staged in Australia.
-Annual musical held around March-May over a 3 day period, held on the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday on it's respective week, with a Matinee for local primary schools to view the Musical on the Tuesday.
-*2006 - The Wiz (30th Musical)
-*2007 - Bugsy Malone (31st Musical)
-*2008 - Disco Inferno (32nd Musical)
-*2009 - Burgertown (33rd Musical)
 ===Walkathon===
+The school's major fundraiser, the [[Walkathon]] is a sporting/social event in which students walk 13km from the school, to local park Sweeney's Reserve, Petrie. Although optional, enthusiastic participation of the students typically result in a dress up to suit a certain theme that the students have selected. Throughout the years the themes have had extreme variations, from the 'Mad Hatter's Derby Day' to 'Sparrow Invades Neverland', whereas in recent years the school have adopted themes such as 'Heroes and Villains', and the most recent being [[Disney]].
-The school's major fundraiser that consists of student to walk 13km to Sweeney's Reserve at Petrie, dressed to suit a certain theme
-*2006 - Mad Hatter's Derby Day
-*2007 - Sparrow Invades Neverland
-*2008 - Heroes and Villians
-*2009 - [[Disney]]
 ==Notable alumni==