 New vocational centres were opened at East Brisbane State School and Sherwood State School in 1952, with one also planned for Eagle Junction.Manual arts and domestic science classes were generally conducted in prefabricated Boulton & Paul buildings in the early 1950s, and in 1954 the DPW introduced a new standard design for a timber-framed vocational training building.Highset with a verandah along one side, this design comprised a large room accommodating either manual training or domestic science classes, with smaller rooms opening off it for complementary purposes (e.g.