The kids at the vacation care in Goodna were an absolute pleasure to perform a puppet show for and…read morework with during the puppetry performance workshop that Elissa and I ran there. Very friendly, enthusiastic and well behaved kids, and very good teachers who were not only brilliant at behavioural management, but also spent time discussing with the class everything they enjoyed about their time during vacation care. When we arrived, the teachers had them watching FRAGGLE ROCK to prepare them for our puppetry lesson! After our puppet show and "hands on" workshop, they all constructed their own puppets using clothes pegs, paper cutout shapes and feathers (the pegs opened like mouths). And as we were leaving, they all sat down to watch LABYRINTH! Never have I seen so much interest in puppetry that teachers are willing to prepare the students with some Jim Henson classics, and then a puppet making craft lesson. Not to mention booking some professionals to come and perform and teach the craft. A most enjoyable morning at St Francis Xavier Primary School Vacation Care. I hope to visit again during a school term. - Brett Hansen (Larrikin Puppets)

I suggest you to send your kid here if you want them to be insanely depressed and force them to do…read morehours of homework each day. Really. The school says they care about our mental health. And they tell us to get 9 hours of sleep. Good idea- oh wait. I'll be too busy grinding MY DESIGN JOURNAL. QASMT is strict and the detention is useless. Even if you're the most precise of students, teachers will always have something to pick on you for. Like being late for class once? Nope! Detention! Didn't wear your hat in the shade? Detention! Even something as stupid as forgetting your book can land you into the principal's office. Next issue (this isn't a really big one), clothing. Clothes are a huge deal at QA, but it's just so expensive. Like a hat costs $75 and socks are $9 per pair. And the uniform policies are absurd. They force us to wear blazers when its boiling. They make us wear hats undercover. How useful. Now, here is where the mountain of schoolwork comes in. Think you can handle Year 7? Enjoy writing a 8 page essay about Mathematics and Science in 2 weeks. Enjoy making a whole fricking picture book in 6. And you better love making musicals or making films in 10. But the worse part is that everybody seems to have expectations that you'll get a perfect mark. Like teachers. Not everybody can be Bubbles. So just drop it. Speaking of teachers, who do they think they are? They're apathetic and racist human beings. They don't teach us anything and they don't know anything. I asked my teacher how to solve a question and she responded 'Just go on YouTube.' Sorry to break it to you, but teaching me how to solve a problem IS PART OF YOUR JOB. The research center isn't any better. The old ladies make it mandatory to work and YOU CANNOT talk or even communicate to anybody in any form. Even if you mouth something to your friend, the Karens threaten to kick you out because of that. Next is the leadership team. As a student, I'm absolutely disgusted. They don't care about freedom of speech or censorship (I find it concerning that they had an assembly threatening us to not voice our opinions on the school). Kayrooz just focuses on her own publicity, and doesn't even show up to half of the student- run events. The admin think they know everything. One of the deputies even said the N word 3 TIMES in an assembly (and in 2 assemblies too). Congratulations. As per the words of the musical Hamilton, you have invented a new kind of stupid. All in all, this school sucks. DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE if you want them to have a life. Don't go here if you don't want to have depression and constant anxiety every day. You can get an equally good education with even more enrichment opportunities like drama and (better) sport activities without the trauma.