UPDATE: Some students at Kirwan State High School have returned to their swimming carnival, police are still clearing buildings of the threat, which is expected to take several hours.

It’s one of nine schools across Queensland to have been evacuated after recorded bomb threats were called in after 9am.

A school in Bowen is also among those evacuated.

Hundreds of students have been evacuated with police on scene.

It comes about a week after Townsville State High School was evacuated along with 9 other schools across the state.