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Students at Coolabunia State School c. 1904 (Photo: Coolabunia SS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Former Coolabunia State School principal Ron de Jersey (Photo: Coolabunia SS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 27, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Queensland Governor Paul de Jersey AC will be the special guest at Saturday’s Coolabunia State School 125th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n

Governor de Jersey\u2019s father, Ron de Jersey, was principal at the school from 1950-1953 and his family lived in\u00a0 the heritage-listed principal\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n

The Governor is due to arrive at 11:00am.<\/p>\n

This will be followed by the official opening ceremony and then a performance by the school choir at 11:30am.<\/p>\n

At 11:45am, past students will perform as the Coolabunia Fife Band (we hope they’ve been practising!) and then at noon there will be a student performance of maypole dancing.<\/p>\n

The school bell will be rung at 1:30pm to gather past students together for photographs.<\/p>\n

There will also be classroom displays to enjoy, old crafts, old movies, a jumping castle and slide, working machinery, a hay maze, face-painting and market stalls.<\/p>\n

The day will wrap up about 4:00pm.<\/p>\n

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Coolabunia State School in the 1960s (Photo: Coolabunia SS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The late Geoff Missingham, well-known in the South Burnett for his writings, penned a poem for the school’s centenary in 1991 called “The Builders\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This excerpt has been circulating in recent weeks as the school has been promoting its 125th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n

And it explains the large haystack koala which has been keeping guard on the D’Aguilar Highway since the Australia Day weekend:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the tall spotted gum the koala is sleeping<\/em>
\n Over broad camphor laurels Old Sol is new peeping<\/em>
\n In the red bottle-brush the honey birds are singing<\/em>
\n When I hear the peal of a school bell ringing\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Coolabunia State School in the 1980s (Photo: Coolabunia SS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than 1500 students have passed through the rooms at Coolabunia State School since it opened its doors to its first pupils on June 16, 1891.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The school came about after great agitation from local farming families in 1890.<\/p>\n

The Education Minister at the time challenged the community to come up with the timber for the building and desks.<\/p>\n

When this happened, the State Government provided enough books and slates for 18 pupils, and set aside \u00a340 a year to pay a teacher.<\/p>\n

The first teacher was Fred Horne, a local resident and a former pupil teacher in Yorkshire, England.<\/p>\n

The children enrolled came from six families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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