We have two boys 14 & 13 at secondary school and a younger son and daughter 6 & 10, in primary education,and are currently scouring the Gold Coast area, looking via the internet , for suitable schools to go and look at hopefully early next year. We have looked at some websites but you can't really make an informed decision from that....Also, State or indipendent ? However he latter could be costly right ??
The Question is....Are there any schools & areas that we should think of checking out and any we should maybe steer clear of ??
We have been to the Gold Coast a couple of times in the past, last time was a fact finding mission in 2002, we looked at houses, cars and general food shopping but neglected to look at schools as it seemed to early in our planning...It is our intention to settle in the GC area, maybe upto 15K's in land or even a little more, if any one has any info for us it would be greatly appreciated.........
We were planning to settle in South Gold Coast so my OH came out in August to have a look around some primary schools in the area. He went to Mudgeeraba state school, which he really liked but facilities a little old, Burleigh Heads state school, really nice and Clover Hill school, which is only 2 years old, great facilities, this is inbetween Mudgeeraba and Robina. We looked on their websites which we got links to from the Queensland education website. My OH liked all three schools, there aren't too many independent schools about unless you are looking for a Catholic or Christian school.
All are really easy to enrol - all of above three don't have limits to number of students they take, the government provide extra teachers if there's a large intake and at our sons school there is a max of 25 to a class. There is 5 classes in his year though, so its quite a big school, there are a lot of families around here, but he is getting on great at school (Year 1) although education wise they're about a year behind over here, so he's well ahead.
Robina High School and Miami High are the two main high schools this end of the Gold Coast - haven't looked at them though no need yet, but our son will go to Robina - it looks great from outside - very modern and its more local to us.
Some of the schools have catchment areas some of them don't.
If you have any other questions please ask.
Liz
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Liz, Paul, Jake (6) and Dylan (2)
Thanks for all the info, While we were there in 2002 we stayed between Broadbech ad central Surfers Paradise, so we have been to Carrara market, Australia Fair, Pacific fair and so on, we also got up to Beerwah into Brissie, to Southbank the children enjoyed that, and down as far as Byron Bay Lighthouse and mustn't forget over to Towoomba, we ended up having a good look around, but not at schools, after all that managed to get a babysitter, not on the same day though, we had 5 weeks there that time, Janie and I then visited the new housing at Varsity lakes and Ashmore and the surrounding areas, Janie is a Nurse by the way, so Robina, Mudgeereba and the surrounding areas etc, would be of interest to us, we were looking at Robina High like you from the Qld Education website, it does look very modern, we looked at the catcment area to, it did seem quite large, we'el have a look at Miami High later today.
Well we're keeping our fingers crossed that the meds all go OK at the end of March, if you think of anything else post it for us Liz, all info will be greatly appreciated, take care...
Pat.....for us all, really nice weather here at the momet especially for Februrary but not as nice as down there...........I bet
Schooling in SE Qld,
