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Ipswich Central State School was founded in 1861 and is well and truly a part of Ipswich’s proud history. Today the school has over 700 students enrolled. These students come from many different suburbs of Ipswich and surrounding areas, often driving past other schools, in order to have their children attend Ipswich Central. Many parents, when asked why they have selected Ipswich Central for their children, reply that it is Ipswich Central State School’s excellent reputation within the community which influenced their decision. Ipswich Central State School is a highly effective school with highly effective staff and students. We value and protect our reputation as an excellent school. We maintain and continue to build on this reputation through: Academic achievement Tradition Discipline Culture The ‘Central Way’ of doing business. Source: ipswichcentralss.eq.edu.au/our-school.

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Mitchell River Mission, at Trubanaman, was established by the Church of England in 1905. Children living on the Mission were separated from their parents and housed in segregated dormitories for the purposes of education. This practice was also viewed as a means of isolating the children from their culture. In 1918 the mission relocated to a site on Magnificent Creek and was given the name Kowanyama (however, for many years after this move it was still referred to as Mitchell River Mission). In 1966, the Anglican Church approached the government to take control of the mission and responsibility for the mission was handed over to the Queensland Government on 1 May 1967. The mission became a government administered reserve known as Kowanyama. Source: www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/qld/biogs/QE00958b.htm

The Cape Bedford Mission was the first Christian mission on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia. It is the oldest surviving mission in northern Queensland. Guugu Yimithirr (also known as Koko Yindjir, Gugu Yimidhirr, Guguyimidjir) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Hope Vale and the Cooktown area. The language region includes the local government area of the Aboriginal Shire of Hope Vale and the Shire of Cook, particularly the localities of Cape Bedford, Battle Camp and sections of the Normanby River and Annan River.[2] George Schwarz arrived in September 1887 and Wilhelm Poland in 1889. These missionaries and their wives helped stabilize the mission and make it more cohesive. The Polands ran a school at Elim, while Schwarz settled with the young men on a new outstation at Hopevale for agricultural and pastoral work. Poland and Schwarz emphasized teaching in the Guugu Yimidhirr language, and soon some of the mission girls were teaching at the school. In 1890, the Queensland government offered a £200 annual subsidy to the mission on condition that lessons be taught in English. This funding stopped in 1893, leaving Schwarz and Poland to teach the students in their choice of language. In 1900, when a government teacher arrived, English instruction resumed. Due to fluctuations in funding, for about the first 15 years of the mission's existence its residents were at least trilingual. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Bedford_Mission