Our staff

​​Moranbah East State School provides our students with a range of learning experiences in a challenging and supportive environment.  Moranbah East State School offers an innovative and engaging curriculum to meet the needs of each student.  This is achieved through an uncluttered curriculum designed to accommodate the learning rates and styles of students and embrace the need for flexible approaches to learning.  We place high expectations on student conduct and the development of social responsibility.

We provide students with support and direction so that they can develop their social competence and self-confidence and achieve their full potential.  Every staff member at Moranbah East State School has a commitment to high quality educational and social outcomes for our students.  Every staff member takes the responsibility to ensure our students are afforded every opportunity to succeed.

​We are a fully inclusive school with an ever increasing number of students enrolling who require specialised support from our Inclusion Team.

Administrati​​on Leaders

• Rod Finney - Principal
• Geraldine Curran - Deputy Principal - Years P - 2
• Tash Mallory - Deputy Principal - Years 3 - 6
• Yolande Dorward - Business Manager 
• Suzanne Nicholas - Head of Special Education Services

Our staff is proud to work at Moranbah East State School and we value the culture and traditions of the school, as well as collectively working together towards an even better tomorrow.   We have over 70 staff members employed at Moranbah East.  Staff members are identifiable by their school badge. 

Our administration team members are a united group, with Mr Rod Finney bringing together very experienced operators including Mrs Geraldine Curran who has been at our school for over 14 years and Ms Tash Mallory who has many years of experience with the Department. 

Our professional staff work together as a united team to deliver the highest quality education using the Departmental allocative resource models.  Teachers use an array of widely practised pedagogical models which are based on research and provide a common teaching approach sitting under the Age Appropriate Pedagogies.  Whole of school Annual Improvement Priorities are well known to staff and collabortively we develop plans to derive further improvements in student performance data and teaching and learning outcomes.

St​affing​

• 1 Principal 
  
• 2 Deputy Principals
  
• .4 Guidance Officer (base school)
  
• 29 Classroom Teachers
  
• 4 Student Support Teachers
  
• 1 Resource Centre Co-ordinator
  
• 1.4 PE Teachers
  
• 1.4 Arts Teachers
  
• .8 Japanese Lote Teacher
  
• 1 Schools Officer (Groundsman)
  
• 2.5 Admin Office Staff
  

Fractional teaching positions exist for instrumental music and students with disabilities based on enrolment figures.

We also have 15 teacher aides employed to support curriculum delivery.  There are several well trained teacher aides supporting students in the inclusion team.

Other staff roles include Work Place Health & Safety/Work Place Rehabilitation Officer, Rural and Remote Access Program (RREAP) Representative.

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