Moorooka State School

Brilliant school with a very vibrant and exciting environment for kids to learn. They have SO many options and activities happening all the time to get kids engaged. Staff really care and are exceptionally approachable and dedicated. The new 360 fence around the school means it is now secure 24/7 and with new school blocks and a big makeover it really shines! My son loves it! And still loves going in each day!! 😁 Every day he comes home with stories of his adventures!

Failed to cater food for my coeliac sisters graduation. They were made aware she had coeliac but no one bothered to research how to carer for it and educate themselves. She felt left out and not included in her graduation.

Somehow even the bad times were good, I wish that I could have a do over because I can assure you that I would bust a gut to make sure that I didn't make the same mistakes that I've in this life. I would have gone to Moorooka State School from Grade 1 and hopefully I will take back some of the knowledge I've picked up over the years as well. I hope that I'd get the chance to go to university (the world needs more cpa's or stockbrokers) or if I went into the PMG as I did I hope I'd have the sense to stick it out. The one thing that I really hope I'd remember to do is to stay in contact with my friends/classmates from school and whatever career path I chose to do. Not to much to ask is it. ❤ Glory Days

I was a student there in 1965 (Mr Neville) '66 (Mr Buckley) and '67 (Mr's "Squizzy"Taylor for 1 week & Bothwell for what seems like a life time. I attended a 25th reunion of the Year 7's in 1992 and of 7A it was just Garry Murphy (ex7C) Jennifer Mountcastle and I turned up to it. My memories of school are perhaps seen through rose coloured glasses and regret - I often wish that I could be back there and from Grade 1 and I regret that I didn't work harder there and at Salisbury High School (Nianda to newbies) and up to 2005 I used to bump into 1 or 2 schoolmates each year. I am in a nursing home now and bedridden, I am quite nostalgic these days and forgive my rose coloured glasses, but I think that "our time" is better than today's children because it was simpler. Boys just ran around "red rover" cricket, football and there were the fads every year of marbles and the Coca Cola Yo Yo's around the 'EKKA was the highlight of our year. As another flashback hits me we used to get 1/3rd pint (200ml) bottles/cartons of mlk and I remember bringing some Milo or Quik to school, some even bought tins of it and sold off a teaspoon for 5cents at a time and there was a pie van and the shop over the road always did good business if you didn't bring peanut paste/Vegemite sandwiches and Arrowroot biscuits/chocolate crackles or a home-made biscuit/cake for Little Lunch and in my house it was a cooked breakfast before the 7.30 bus 35cents for a weekly ticket Sunnybank Bus Service. Great days for me for the most part and I tried many times to tell the children of friends to slowdown and not be in such a hurry to grow up and learn as much as they can because it's tough in the world and there's only so many good jobs out there. I just wish that I could have a do over because I can assure you that I would leave no stone unturned to firstly get the education I wanted for myself (another cpa) and I would not have winded up sick and unable to walk at a relatively young age of 60 years old. Garry Murphy and Peter Dixon who was also in the same years as me worked at the same company as I did (QIW) for many years albeit in different divisions.