Bracken
Ridge State School is fortunate enough to have excellent facilities to
cater for most aquatic activities. Bracken Ridge State School has a six
lane, 25m swimming pool. All school classes benefit from weekly Swimming
Lessons in Terms 1 and 4 (summer). A number of recent additions have been
made to the Pool Facilities. A new 'Learn to Swim' pool has been built
in an area adjoining the main pool. This pool has been designed to cater
for this purpose with shallow depth, ramp entry, and large benches on either
end. Another addition to the pool complex is the protective shade cloth
structures covering a significant area of the pool's surface.
The pool is also in use before and after
school by Bracken Ridge Amateur Swimming Club. The Bracken Ridge 'Wizards', as
they are known, cater for 'Learn to Swim' classes, through to advanced
squad training. For further information on Club details please contact
the club on 3869 0005.
Library
The Library is staffed by Miss Louise Celledoni and Ms Jill Borrowdale. The books
are catalogued using the Alice for Windows Cataloguing System. It is computer based
software and allows borrowing and returning of books to be much easier.
All the resources in the Library have been catalogued onto Oasis therefore
allowing a fully automated borrowing/returning system. The Library is divided
into; Junior Fiction, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Quarto Non-Fiction, Teacher
Resources and an Audio - Visual section. All children are encouraged to
borrow books and classes have an allocated borrowing time, as well as their
normal Library lessons. Library lessons for individual classes are a result
of co-operative planning between Miss Celledoni and the Classroom Teacher.
Technology
Bracken
Ridge State School is well equipped to educate our students in ways to cope with
current uses of Technology. We have equipped our Library with 15 IBM compatible
computers. These are linked to the Internet. In addition
to this, each Year Four class has two Computers and each Year 5, 6 and 7 class
has three computers. Every computer in Years 4 - 7 is connected to the Internet,
and therefore has access to e-mail facilities. An additional
computer lab has been set up for the junior section of the school.
Playground Equipment
The
playground areas at Bracken Ridge are separated into areas for the Junior,
Middle and Upper Schools. Each area has it's own Adventure Playground.
The Junior and Senior areas have two Adventure Playgrounds each. All Adventure
Playground equipment satisfies Workplace, Health and Safety requirements.
As well as these playgrounds Bracken Ridge makes use of its asphalted netball/basketball
courts, cricket nets, and oval for Sports Training and playtime use.
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