Tweed River High School

Tweed River is a vibrant, comprehensive High School with a strong focus on academic achievement and positive student wellbeing. The school’s core values of teamwork, opportunity, respect, excellence and safety underpin a wide range of outstanding student programs. The school embeds its focus on ensuring a safe and orderly school environment where every child can achieve their best through a range of wellbeing initiatives which support our students to develop high levels of resilience and the adaptability to succeed in a rapidly changing world. Students participate in a range of extra-curricular opportunities to enhance their education, including year camps and a wide range of academic workshops. Students are supported to achieve excellence in a wide variety of pursuits. Our Academic Talent Pathway provides an environment in which students can achieve outcomes at a more rapid pace and engage in a range of activities to facilitate the development of higher order thinking skills. Our self-select classes in years 9 and 10 provide additional extension opportunities for stage 5 students. Our Sports Development Program enables students from years 7 to 10 to engage with professional coaches to develop their unique sporting talents, while our successful creative and performing arts programs enable our students to perform in local, regional and state wide events including eisteddfods, Far North Coast Dance and Schools Spectacular. Creative and Performing Arts students can also access private instrumental and voice coaching, while dancers are supported through specialist coaching in our Sports Development Program. Our diverse academic curriculum includes a strong Agricultural program, utilising the facilities on our school farm; a Marine Studies program with direct access to the Tweed River and a state of the art Metals and Engineering trade skills centre, which is the home of our very successful human powered vehicle team. The school’s specialist teachers and tutorial programs ensure that all students are supported to achieve their best in a safe, welcoming and respectful environment. If you would like to find out more about the exceptional programs we offer please call us.