Gympie East State School has a proud environmental tradition as a "Green and Healthy School'. We have received several awards for our innovation in this area and are continually looking for ways to reduce our carbon footprint. I encourage you to take a look at our website which has further details about our environmental and school activities. At Gympie East we believe strongly in developing the whole student. This includes high levels of social responsibility as well as ensuring quality academic growth. To this end we have high behaviour expectations backed by the study of a virtue each week. This is complemented by our redesigned curriculum approach that allows students to build on their knowledge each term from Prep to Year 7. This sequential approach ensures all students are working progressively towards higher learning outcomes. Information and Communication Technologies are an increasingly important aspect of the global student and all students have access to up-to-date infrastructure and learning opportunities, whether it be online research, interactive classrooms or designing video games and teaching peers.