Collinsville State School is located in a rural setting approximately 85 kilometres west of Bowen. The school caters for approximately 85 students from both rural and urban backgrounds. The school community values the quality education programs offered in this small school setting for students from the Preparatory Year to Year 7. The school is led by a teaching principal who is assisted by a small teaching staff, teacher aides and administrative support. The school curriculum offers children a wide range of teaching and learning experiences in all eight key learning areas. Specialists visit the school weekly to assist with delivery in Science and Art. The rural setting of the school is enhanced by well-landscaped school grounds, spacious playing areas, a multi-purpose court and quality playing equipment. Each class has a double or triple teaching space. The school also boasts a parade room, an art room and gallery, two computer laboratories as well as several storage areas for resources and sporting equipment. Collinsville State School has a newly refurbished Library/ICT Learning Area and all teaching classrooms are equipped with Electronic Whiteboards. The school has had a successful sporting history with many students qualifying for District, Whitsunday, North Queensland sporting teams. The school runs the Active After School Sport program twice a week and many of our students participate in this. Collinsville also has an award winning choir who have place in the Burdekin Eisteddfod for the past two years. Collinsville State School offers scholarships in the Arts, Sport, Academia and General Excellence each year. The behaviour of our students is fantastic and the climate is one of hard work, dedication, aspiration and achievement. We believe it is important to celebrate success and do so weekly at parade and in our class and school newsletters. Our school motto, "Nolite Dedere" means "never surrender, never give up" and we pride ourselves on aspiring to do this daily. Collinsville State School caters for..