PARENTS are breathing easier after the bats that invaded Ipswich Central State School have moved on.

The bats moved into the school after Ipswich City Council pushed them out of neighbouring Queens Park and Nerima Gardens.

It prompted fears from parents about the health of their children, heightened after two children were splattered with bat faeces.

P and C president Krista Jackson said initial attempts by the council made matters worse but persistence paid off.

"At the moment they've all gone away so whatever the council has done is working," Ms Jackson said.

"The school's position is, we're very happy with the actions that have happened so far.

"The council staff came along and made a lot of noise and that seems to have worked.

"We just need to make sure they stay away over the school holidays and after the children return."

Ms Jackson was pleased that Cr Andrew Antoniolli and Ipswich MP Ian Berry fulfilled their promises to visit the school yesterday.

"Mr Berry and Mr Antoniolli came and had a look and they were both very keen to find a solution," she said.

"Mr Antoniolli said hopefully we've just hurried up the migration. I don't know where they went."

After the bats moved in, the school was forced to cordon off a large part of the children's play area and where they usually sit and eat.

She said the biggest issue had been that the school's main toilet block was right under where the bats had been hanging.

The bats flew over the top of the children playing and a couple of them went to the office with faeces on them.

Cr Antoniolli said the council had to take action, with the flying fox colony at Queens Park quadrupling since they first moved there.