Queensland yearly Educational incidents report

• A miniature horse named "Shotty" at Yeppoon State High School had symptoms resembling the Hendra virus during a rapid decline in health on November 14.

• Two students in front of a Bunsen burner received minor burns after a teacher conducting an experiment inadvertently turned the tap back on instead of off at a DDSW school on July 10.

• A student had a javelin lodged in her back after helping to measure distances during a Physical Education Sports assessment at a Metropolitan region school on November 23.

• A Brisbane State High School student's boat struck a dead body in the Brisbane River during girls' rowing training, with 15 other pupils and two coaches close by on May 3.

• Murrarie State School staff were confronted with a large amount of blood in their school toilets and splattered across the school grounds on March 23.

• Students had to resit Maths B, Maths C, Physics and ESL English exams at a school in the south east region after a pupil accessed and copied material from the school's network, after a male teacher gave students access to his computer a number of times over May and June.

• Four classrooms were evacuated at Frenchville State School in August after a thermometer in an incubator with chicken eggs set to hatch, burst. Liquid beading found among the eggs led to it being treated as a mercury spill.

• On 22 October - a student free day - the body of a young man was found in a far north Queensland school covered playground area.

• About 100 vaccination syringes were found buried in the school grounds of the Northern Peninsula Area State College at Bamaga in February when landscaping was done.

• At Aitkenvale State School five chickens were killed in an act of vandalism in the school's permaculture area in November. Two chickens survived.

• Biloela State High School community members were confronted with dead galahs around the school grounds, which the local council said was potentially the result of a poisoned food source.

• A nail penetrated a student's earlobe and slightly pierced the surface of a boy's skull during a nail gun injury in class at a DDSW school on July 19.

• A child was found in the toilets, where their peers got changed before boarding a bus for swimming, leaving the one pupil behind "and a little upset" at a school in the Central Queensland region in March.

• A student who brought a "trick" pen that gave electric shocks to school and used it on other students was hospitalised after he shocked himself a number of times and felt unwell in the central Queensland area on April 19.

• Wynnum State School's principal reported she had to open up her school at 1.30am for a police "commando" base for the dog squad, officers and negotiators during a siege in the local area in February.