BSHS Culture Group

We are excited to announce a program at State High with the aim to share and learn about the wide variety of BSHS student cultures, beginning with a highlight on Pacific Islander culture through cultural dances, as well as traditional songs.

We would like to connect students, no matter what background throughout all year levels by coming together to showcase our traditions on Harmony Day, Week 8 Friday lunchtime and this coming week.

If you are interested in joining, please bring your friends, cousins or siblings Friday morning (7am) to F block where we will discuss a plan and further organising. For any further questions don’t be shy to contact or ask any of the seniors like me or anyone else you know in this program and to email lkefu2@eq.edu.au

BSHS Greenscapes

Greenscapes: From little things, big things grow.

The BSHS Greenscapes gardening group have been in action since 2018, and is located on the upper campus, behind G Block. Our mission statement is to reduce BSHS environmental impact through education and action. We have weekly gardening sessions on Wednesdays and Fridays from 8am to 8:45am.

Some of our current projects are the construction of a permaculture planting circle for the propagation of banana, pawpaw, sweet potato, and pineapple. We are also working very hard on improving the soil naturally through composting and brewing weed tea. The BSHS Stem team are also using the Greenscapes garden space to work on their submission to the UQ Sunflower Competition: https://agriculture-food-sustainability.uq.edu.au/sunflower-competition

One of our Gardeners tells of her experience:

I joined Greenscapes after randomly coming across a StudentNet Post in Year 8 about an upcoming meeting for a meaningful environmental group at school and decided to join as another extracurricular group to participate in and meet new friends. We mainly just had Containers for Change. Time flew by, and now I’m a Greenscapes leader in Year 12. The group has also expanded to having a huge garden that actually grows useful vegetables, along with a number of exciting upcoming events. This will definitely be a memory worth treasuring even after graduating high school, so if you haven’t joined Greenscapes already, come along to our weekly activities and see what we do!

The BSHS STEM Ambassadors have written up an article about our current project – UQ Sunflower growing competition.  The students in the image are Keer Fan, Micole Devinuwara, Cherri Xi, and Shukanya PRACHI.

The 2025 STEM Ambassadors have been hard at work planting and cultivating 50 sunflowers in the State High garden “GreenSpace”. This project was generously funded by UQ Agriculture for the UQ Sunflower Competition and Queensland Science Contest. Aimed at increasing awareness of food security and agriculture, students must design watering systems and optimise our sunflowers to win.

State High must triumph over 87 other schools in obtaining the heaviest sunflower by the 16 May. We have been busy watering and trialing various ways to optimise growth. Recently, Barry B Benson alongside their other sunflower friends have sprouted! Stay in tune to find out whether the tiny seedlings make it through cyclone Alfred!