Bowral High School

Overview

CRICOS Provider: 00588M School profile: The school has an excellent team of teachers, and teachers are constantly learning. They care, understand and educate students, and provide dynamic and skilled classrooms. The school’s curriculum is flexible and diverse, and students are encouraged to choose the subjects they need, tap their potential, and achieve the best results. The school strives to create a good academic atmosphere and creates more opportunities for senior students to enter the University of Wollongong.

Description

Bowral High School

Year of establishment: 1929

Year opened: Year7 -Year12

School address: Aitkin Road Bowral NSW 2576

Total number of students: 880

School motto: Keep improving-the higher you fly, the farther you go (Excelsior-Higher Always Upwards)

School Profile:

At Bowral High School we are committed to building positive relationships with students, parents and staff that support students to feel connected to the school and learn.

We want our students to have a sense of belonging at the school, to feel valued and supported and to have respectful relationships with their teachers and each other. Positive relationships underpin engagement, along with strong pedagogy and personalised learning.

Bowral High School has strong links to its community and its partner primary schools. A rich and challenging academic program exists side by side with opportunities in vocational education that offer students individual pathways to work, university, and TAFE or private colleges.

Geographical environment:

The school’s location, Bowral, is located in the valley. It takes one to one-and-a-half hours to drive from Sydney, and one hour to reach the beaches of Wollongong and Kiama Town. There is a fixed bus route near the school, which directly arrives in Sydney, so the transportation is convenient; Bowral At the same time, it is a tourist center and commercial retail center. The residential area has ancient and characteristic buildings, and there are many coffee shops, bookstores, art galleries, parks, etc., making life convenient and comfortable.

School facilities:

Audio-visual conference center; basketball hall; coffee shop opened by students; woodworking and metal workshop; performance center, etc.

Course features:

1. English as a Second Language (ESL)

2. Selectable languages: Italian, French

3. Featured activities:

Lead the project;

Internship Program;

Vocational training projects;

Sports items, etc.

4. Student Service Center: students' optional extended minor courses; psychological counseling projects; peer support and leadership projects

5. HSC test result: ATAR high score of 96.9

https://bowral-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/