![]() The school's Programs of Excellence in Design, Performance, Soccer Development, CANON and STEMd are supported through the allocation of a defined number of places. Pimpama State Secondary College has a maximum student enrolment capacity of 1,924 students. The Principal must restrict the enrolment of out-of-catchment students to ensure in-catchment students can enrol at their local state school without requiring additional facilities. Pimpama State Secondary College recognises as its prime obligation, the provision of access to an appropriate educational service for students whose principal place of residence is within the school’s catchment area.īecause of enrolment capacity and growth, Pimpama State Secondary College may be unable to meet this obligation in the future unless action is taken to manage enrolments. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education. ![]() 2013 also saw the opening of the Pimpama State Secondary College on Dixon Drive in what is Upper Coomera. In 2013 the State government announced the building of a new primary school at Pimpama as part of 10 new schools to be built in high-growth areas under a private-public partnership model, with the private companies responsible for maintaining the school for up to 30 years. Further away the country becomes wetland, farming (where drainage was constructed for sugar growing) and an environmental reserve of mixed woodland, marsh and mangroves along the south side of the Pimpama River. A short way east there is the Gainsborough Greens golf course (1990), which has been adjoined by urban subdivisions. Gradual growth in rural/residential living also saw the rifle range replaced by a heritage park and museum (South Coast Restoration Society) and housing development went ahead in the 2000s. The Pimpama State school (1872) and a hall are further south. The cemetery, historic Uniting church and a war memorial comprise Pimpama's 'civic precinct'. The exception to this planning zone is in the north where there is the Ormeau railway station, Ormeau primary school (1878) and a highway interchange on the Pacific Motorway. Pimpama has remained mostly farmland and is designated as a rural wedge between urban Ormeau and Coomera. After the war (1949), Pimpama had 25 dairy farmers, four banana growers, two arrowroot growers and no recorded sugar grower. The trend to dairying was very pronounced during the 1920s-30s throughout the local shire, which had over 1000 dairy farms in 1939. Just before the Kingston factory was opened, Pimpama was described in the Australian handbook (1903): The South Coast railway (1889) had a stopping place at Pimpama, and dairying was taken up when produce could be railed to the dairy factory at Kingston. In 1891 the Post Office directory showed arrowroot manufacturers outnumbering sugar planters in Pimpama. Used in starch, biscuits and blancmange, there was a steady demand for arrowroot at a time when Queensland's population was increasing. ![]() Within a decade it was found that northern sugar growing was more profitable, and in Pimpama the occasional mild frost was beneficial for growing arrowroot: the frosted tops of the plants were easily removed and the root harvested. A small Pimpama village was established where the South Coast track crossed Hotham Creek, with a store, a hotel and a school (1872). Several plantations were established by German settlers and in 1871 Heussler and Bauer were recorded as having the largest sugar holding (49 ha). Dependant on a cotton shortage caused by the American Civil War, the industry was soon supplanted by sugar. Ham was a member of the Victoria Cotton and Sugar Plantation Company which grew cotton on the southern bank of the Pimpama River in about 1863. The creek was named after Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (1854-55), by Thomas Ham, formerly of Melbourne. The locality is south of the area known as Pimpama Island, being enclosed on the west and north by Hotham Creek and the Pimpama River. The origin of the name is uncertain: apparently of Aboriginal origin, the meaning is variously recorded as referring to freshwater crayfish or to at least two species of native birds. Pimpama, is on the northern Gold Coast, 45 km south-east of central Brisbane and 24 km north of Surfers Paradise. ![]()
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