PROFILE

Education is the asset that will help your children meet the challenges of his or her future, a place of technological and social change where multiple careers during a working lifetime will be the norm.

Warnbro Community High School combines the best traditions of academic education with innovative programs and course selection opportunities. The school is at the forefront of education with a dynamic and comprehensive focus on critical and creative thinking, research and problem solving in a technology-rich environment. Each student develops and consolidates skills and processes in eight Learning Areas: the Arts; English; Health and Physical Education; Languages Other Than English; Mathematics; Science; Studies of Society and Environment and Technology and Enterprise. Skill enhancement and Talented and Gifted programs, alongside our many extra-curricular activities, cater for a wide range of student interests and needs.

As our name suggest the idea of community is central to the success and ethos of the school. We pride ourselves in serving the area with programs that deliver quality education, with facilities that we share with the community, and through operational structures that allow parent and community involvement. The school believes that the best educational outcome is achieved in partnership with parents. The progress of each student is carefully monitored and parents are kept well informed by regular reports, communication through the student diary and letters home, phone contact and parent-teacher evenings. Associate Principals, Student Services and Learning Area consultants, Learning Area teachers and School Psychologist are available by appointment to discuss matters of concern.

The idea of forward educational practice is an essential part of the community input and Warnbro Community High School is exploring this concept through three major focus areas:

• The Arts
• Environmental Science
• Technology

In recognition of these focus areas the Department of Education has granted special school status to Warnbro in Environmental Science and Technology.

The secondary education offered to each student at Warnbro Community High School enables for the discovery and development of their strengths and talents, identification and provision for their special needs and the laying of foundations for their post-secondary goals and aspirations. As educators we seek to provide the very best preparation for your child's entry into further study, the workforce and increasingly complex world. The decision making processes and adaptable skills developed by your child at Warnbro Community High School will lay the foundation for life-long learning, self-discipline, active participation and creation of tomorrow's opportunities.

The enrolment of approximately 1,600 students is divided into two schools providing appropriate curriculum and specialist programs to meet the stages of learning development. Middle School (years 8 and 9) caters for the needs of the adolescent and focuses on teaching broad skills and processes while Senior School (Years 10, 11 and 12) focuses on the needs of the young adult and is where students begin to select course pathways, gain work experience and take special programs in the preparation for life after school. Our time-table comprises of 24 periods per week. An extended school day provides social benefits and better access to specialist rooms, with Senior School periods operating from 7.40am until 2.05pm and Middle School periods operating from 8.45am until 3.10pm.

Pastoral Care and the fostering of positive relationships is the basis of our school structures. These structures and our special curriculum foci are outlined within this web site. Please explore the tableau of  life at Warnbro Community High School presented and then come and visit us.