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Principal's Message
Since its inception in 1991 Albion Park High School
has established a strong reputation as an innovative, progressive, well
resourced and caring
comprehensive high school.
The school and its students have been recipients of
many prestigious awards. Since 2001 APHS has earned three Director-Generals
Awards for outstanding achievement. Five Year 12 students during this time have
also been awarded the Minister of Education Award for Excellence. The most
recent of these was Alisha Kawalla the 2007 school captain who was honoured for
scholarships, sporting prowess and leadership capacity.
Albion Park High School is proud of its comprehensive
charter and strives to ensure that all students are challenged across all
aspects of the school curriculum. That curriculum has a blend of specialist
programs, catering for academic extension, performance skills in the creative
arts, leadership and civics opportunities and high performance sport and
sports science skills.
The school has also been a recent recipient of the
NSW Vocational Education in Schools Excellence Award. The Vocational Education
and Training opportunities provided include school-based traineeships, seven
vocational frameworks studied in the senior school (IT, sports coaching,
construction, hospitality, metals and engineering, business services and retail
operations), work studies for junior students and student-operated businesses in
hospitality and business services. In 2009 school based apprenticeships will be
introduced for senior students.
The school is equally proud of its tradition in
student leadership initiatives and in particular the operation of student-led
forums and programs such as the sports committee, student representative council
and peer support and mediation programs. Each of these programs reinforces the
shared value of our school and community and provides an outlet for students to
be involved in problem-solving and community based projects.
The centrepiece of Albion Park High is, however, the
school wellbeing program which embraces all school activities and which aims to
foster self-discipline, confidence, teamwork, tolerance and goal setting.
The school measures its overall success through the
manner in which its students are able to fully participate as active members in
all aspects of their community and, as such, effective citizenship is the
school’s most desired quality.
Mr Ken Griffiths
Principal |