School History

Mothar Mountain State School opened as a provisional school on the 27th of July 1908. The school was situated at the junction of Noosa and Woondum Road, opposite the Mothar Mountain Hall. The school building has since been removed.

It is likely that this school was sometimes referred to as the Woondum School, despite there being a Woondum Provisional School located along Hyland Road at East Deep Creek which was later renamed to Ardoyne State School.

The first teacher at the Mothar Mountain State School was Miss Adeline Sivyer, who transferred in 1910 and was replaced by Miss Anita Armanasco, a former student of Monkland State School. 

On the 23rd of March 1922, Head Teacher Miss Evaline Cundith wrote to the Education Department requesting to close the school on the Friday, 31st of March because an excursion to Sandgate from Gympie was being run. Miss Cundith stated that it was an opportunity for the students, many of whom have not seen the seaside, to see the action of the sea on the coast, and other geographical terms unable to be well illustrated. This notion was granted.

Mothar Mountain State School grew steadily for years. In 1957, the school committee were granted a subsidy on the cost of extensive earth-moving works in the grounds for a basketball court, a cricket pitch and an athletics area. This same year, approval was given for the seven-foot verandah to be incorporated into the classroom area, enclosure of part of the other verandah as a library and the supply of additional furniture. Student enrolments gradually declined in the 1960s and Mothar Mountain State School closed on the 13th of July 1970.

Acknowledgement ... Gympie Regional Library