Junee High School

Junee High School is a rural comprehensive secondary school which draws students from the township and surrounding farms and villages. The school enjoys high levels of community support from local businesses and farms. Junee High School has strong links with its partner primary schools through a successful middle school program and the Ngumba-Dal Learning Community. Agricultural plays a pivotal role in our community, and so our Learning Community. We actively engage our feeder schools in agricultural education. The school's principle aim is to enrich the quality of life of it's students and the school community. Junee High School provides students with a broad range of academic and extracurricular options. The school has been involved in the state finals of a number of sports over a number of years. Students have the opportunity to develop their skills in the Arts through the annual Schools Spectacular and school-based performance evenings. The school's Honours System encourages students to achieve excellence in all aspects of school life. The school has a dedicated and energetic teaching staff and the students have the opportunity to study the traditional academic subjects or follow a vocational education pathway. The preparedness of the staff of Junee High School to embrace innovative teaching and learning practices provides  opportunities for all of our students to achieve their best in a supportive environment. Some distinguishing features of our school are: - Proud member of the Ngumba-Dal Learning Community, with our partner schools of Eurongilly PS, Illabo PS Junee PS and Junee North PS. - Dedicated Wellbeing team, comprising of Wellbeing coordinator, Year Advisors, Girls Advisor, Boys Advisor, Counsellor, Learning & Support Teacher, Deputy Principal, Principal as well as Family Referal Service worker. Scripture is delivered to Stage 4 students during each term. - Range of sporting activities, Representative sport opportunities and lunch sport games and competitions; - AgVision is a philosophy about agricultural education at our school. It reflects our belief that agricultural and agri-business careers education is an important part of the wider curriculum focus at Junee High School. AgVision highlights the importance of agriculture to our community as well as to our school.This culminates in an engaging biennial Careers Day dedicated to inspire and inform students in the range of careers available in agriculture, science and agri-business. - Learning Support through a Learning Support Teacher, Student Learning Support Officers, "Multi-Lit" literacy program, Dejhuti numeracy program, in conjunction with staff trained in delivering a differentiated curriculum; - EMPOWER is a suite of organisational structures designed to create a culture of independant, resilient learning through specific leanrning activities: * EMPOWER 4 & 5 where students select to be in a class with like-minded students, who are focused on their own learning, enjoy learning with others and learning to a more significant level than the average student. Students in Self Select solve problems, investigate and strive thoroughly to explore topics deeply and commit themselves to their learning, often completing over and above the expected outcomes for students at that age level. * EMPOWER 6 where senior students have as part of their learning timetable, dedicated time for flexible learning in the Learning Centre. Students choose their learning needs, monitor their progress and make plans for the future. * EMPOWER PM is in the Learning Centre three days a week after school, where students have the opportunity for tuition, extra study, group discussions, access to learning resources and teaching staff, all in a safe and studious learning environment. - School-Based Apprenticeships and Traineeships - where students have the opportunity to gain workplace skills and knowledge combined with schooling. This reinforces the strong links between our school and the community, as well as the preparation for students outside of school. - Parents & Citizens support, with the group of dedicated volunteers supportin the school through fundraising, ratification of school procedures, the managemanet of the canteen and uniform shop, as well as funding support for students. This support is in the form of transport costs being met for students representing the school, school building and grounds improvements as well as fee for HSC Atomi for Year 11 students. Junee High School provides all the advantages and opportunities of a small regional comprehensive high school.