Coen State School in Coen, Queensland | Primary School

Coen State School

Locality: Coen, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4060 1132

Address: Taylor Street 4892 Coen, QLD, Australia

Website: http://coenss.eq.edu.au/wcmss/

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25.01.2022 Are you ready to celebrate #RoaldDahlDay on Wednesday? Our FREE Party Pack has everything you need join the fun whether you'll be in a classroom or at home! Download yours now!

24.01.2022 I've felt so fortunate this week to have worked with this wonderfully committed team at C&K Coen Kindergarten in rural Qld, discussing the importance of buildin...g strong relationships with children and how to heal the effects of childhood trauma. Thank you to this amazing team and to the C&K College of Early Childhood for facilitating our sessions this week. Dr Kaylene Henderson - Child Psychiatrist See more

24.01.2022 Thank you to our teachers for the part you play in the growth of all Queensland students #WTD2017

23.01.2022 What do you think? https://au.news.yahoo.com//principal-threatens-to-expel-s/

13.01.2022 Getting some ideas ready for next year.......

07.01.2022 While at Laura we spoke to Gabriel Creek about the Devil Dance, and this is what he had to say: "The dance that I’m doing now, the devil dance..., I cherish tha...t dance because it was given to me by the rightful owner. He passed away a few years ago. He was over a hundred years of age. There were a lot of boys in our team who tried to learn the dance, but they didn’t get approval from the elder. When he saw me dancing he started looking teary and gave me a big thumbs up and said that you are the one and I want you to do my dance. It made me feel emotional, and now that we lost that poor bloke it means more every time I do that dance. I do it in honour of him. The main story around [the dance] isthere's a group of clans, a group of young men. There was fighting among the groups. It looked like fighting but I think they were just dancing. The devil came out of nowhere and he wanted to be a part of it too, [he] just wanted to dance. [The clan] thought he came there to fight so all the clan rushed at him with their spears and he told them 'I’m not here to fight, I just want to dance. I want to see if you’re good enough for me.' So a professional man come and he saw what they got. He performed for them and they knew they had nothing so they kept moving aside. He kept moving up the chain; moving up and down, up the chain up the chain. And there was no one that could match them."

06.01.2022 I left work early today after an incident with a parent left me unable emotionally to continue for the day. I have already made the decision to leave teaching a...t the end of this year, and today, I don't know if I will make it even that long. Parents have become far too disrespectful, and their children are even worse. Administration always seems to err on the side of keeping the parent happy, which leaves me with no way to do the job I was hired to do...teach kids. I am including photos that I took in my classroom over the past two days. This is how my classroom regularly looks after my students spend all day there. Keep in mind that many of the items damaged or destroyed by my students are my personal possessions or I purchased myself, because I have NO classroom budget. I have finally had enough of the disregard for personal and school property and am drawing a line in the sand on a myriad of behaviors that I am through tolerating. Unfortunately, one parent today thought it was wrong of me to hold her son accountable for his behavior and decided to very rudely tell me so, in front of her son. Report cards come out later this week, and I have nearly half of my students failing due to multiple (8-10) missing assignments. Most of these students and their parents haven't seemed to care about this over the past three months, though weekly reports go out, emails have been sent and phone calls have been attempted. But now I'm probably going to spend my entire week next week fielding calls and emails from irate parents, wanting to know why I failed their kid. My administrator will demand an explanation of why I let so many fail without giving them support, even though I've done practically everything short of doing the work for them. And behavior in my class will deteriorate even more. I am expecting this, because it is what has happened at the end of every other term thus far. I have never heard of a profession where people put so much of their heart and soul into their job, taking time and resources from their home and family, and getting paid such an insultingly measly amount. Teachers are some of the most kind and giving people I have ever met, yet they get treated so disrespectfully from all sides. Most parents can't stand to spend more than a couple hours a day with their kid, but we spend 8 with yours and 140 others just like him. Is it too much to ask for a little common courtesy and civil conversation? It has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember to have a classroom of my own, and now my heart is broken to have become so disillusioned in these short two years. This is almost all I hear from other teachers as well, and they are leaving the profession in droves. There is going to be a teacher crisis in this country before too many more years has passed unless the abuse of teachers stops. People absolutely HAVE to stop coddling and enabling their children. It's a problem that's going to spread through our society like wildfire. It's not fair to society, and more importantly, is not fair to the children to teach them this is okay. It will not serve them towards a successful and happy life. Many will say I shouldn't be posting such things on social media...that I should promote education and be positive. But I don't care anymore. Any passion for this work I once had has been wrung completely out of me. Maybe I can be the voice of reason. THIS HAS TO STOP. --- UPDATE: Thank you, everyone for your words of support! I'm feeling a little shell-shocked over the attention I have gotten, to say the least. This is something I had no way of anticipating and have taken a few days to come to terms with. I never intended to be a spokesperson for anything. I'm not the most qualified to do so, and I'm certainly not the best teacher out there, by far. But obviously my words, spoken in desperation that day, have struck a chord with many people. My Facebook Messenger inbox has been inundated with comments from teachers and others worldwide in agreement and support of my post. If I could have the moment back, I might have said some things differently. For one, I would have pointed out that I have many amazing, hard-working, respectful students who show up every day and give their best and also many supportive, loving parents. For them I am thankful and hope I haven't offended. But my frustration was also in their behalf. Because the actions of some are hindering their educational experience. I believe this post resounded with so many because it speaks to three main issues we must address as a society: First, the education system as we know it needs reform. It is broken and inadequate for our children. Second, we absolutely have to hold our children to a higher standard of accountability in all areas. Inflating their success doesn't raise self-esteem. If it did, we wouldn't have the highest teen suicide rates in history right now. Third, we as a society have to get back to treating one another with manners and respect. We are only going downhill with hatred and name-calling. No one wins when kindness dies. I am a woman of faith and have been quite reflective this week on the good that I can bring to this world because of this experience. I have decided to (as soon as feasible) start blogging my feelings on all of the above and hope many of you will join me in the discussion. If we all work together, we can make the changes we need for our collective success. ---

06.01.2022 It's State Education Week, a time to celebrate all that is wonderful in our state schools. With World Teachers' Day coming up on Friday, there is much to reflect on and be proud of. State schools are great schools!

02.01.2022 News update - the Term 1 break for students will now commence next Monday 30 March 2020. Five student free days have been declared for state schools from 30 Mar...ch-3 April. During this time, staff will continue to prepare resources to ensure continuity of learning. Term 2 will begin on Monday 20 April unless health advice determines otherwise. For updates please visit https://qed.qld.gov.au/abo/news-and-media/novel-coronavirus.

01.01.2022 UPDATE: The Department of Education website received an unprecedented amount of traffic, causing the website to time out for some users and in some cases, the i...nability to log on to some sites. As this type of learning at home model has never been implemented on a large scale like this before, we are taking steps to monitor and prepare for new levels of anticipated demand to support the delivery of learning at home with our IT delivery partners. High demand on some Department web servers has seen a temporary disruption to the learning@home website this morning. Every effort is being made to restore services. The Department is working with IT partners to resolve this issue urgently. We apologise for this short term interruption as we adapt to the learning at home model. Please remain patient as we work through it.