Premium Content Subscriber only ON plans for any new project or new building at Ipswich State High School there are always two blue marks. They represent where water would have reached in the 1974 and 2011 floods. For principal Simon Riley, the disaster ten years ago is not so much always at the back of his mind but right at the front. Ipswich State High School principal Simon Riley surveys the damage caused by the 2011 flood. âOur masterplan has been configured because of it,â he said. âEverything we want to do and need to have done must bear that in mind.â The schoolâs manual arts building had to be gutted after the 2011 floods and its sports ovals and swimming pool were also badly damaged.