Ironside State School 150 Year Sesquicentenary

Indooroopilly State High is celebrating its 70th anniversary!
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70th anniversary Indooroopilly State High School School

One year on from the sesquicentennial anniversary (10-10-2020)! Today we celebrated “what would have been” by collecting the music back from our Historical Orchestra. There was overwhelming appreciation by the alumni, former and current staff musicians, as well community members who came and board to join this project orchestra. I’ve been asked to try and repeat the concept for the next milestone anniversary which is delightful to hear and has made the effort of all worth while!!! The orchestra members were never able to perform nor receive the applause they so truely deserved, but from of the feedback received today, we may be reuniting as a community-based project-orchestra as soon as I can make it happen! Thank you Tina Macht for your support throughout this mighty journey. Thank you Antoni Bonetti AM for your time and energy as our conductor, and thank you Harmony Woollett for helping me source the music!
Thinking of our dear friend, Dr Mark Craig, who had the belief that these 150th anniversary celebration projects would succeed. Cheers, Phoebe

Check out the 50th anniversary booklet at the . Dive in to the history of Ironside as they saw it then!

Ironside State School (late Indooroopilly Pocket School) : Diamond jubilee, Saturday, October 11th : brief history compiled by the Secretary Ironside State School(Indooroopilly Pocket)When the Government, early in the year 1870, was faced with the necessity of providing a Public School for the children of those residents of the Western Suburbs of Brisbane, who lived beyond convenient reach of the Brisbane Schools, it had to take into con...

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Image: Visit of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in Brisbane, 1970.

Meet Fay! She went to school in 1937 and was amazed that the building had changed so much. She told me that she really did not like the concrete wall at the end of the building. The first brick building - A-block - was not finished in 1935 and had only two windows on the left hand side which ended in a concrete wall.

Oh, what a night! The 150th Anniversary Gala dinner was a huge success. Thank you to our guests; alumni, parents, community members, executive staff and Cr Mackay.

Thanks, Nicky, for sending this image in. She attended Ironside from 1991-1997.

I still have 2 mugs from the 125th Anniversary, plus a tea towel with hand-drawn faces from every pupil in a class that year (in a box somewhere).