Willyama High School

Willyama High School (established 1974) has built a reputation as a fast-moving, innovative and modern school driven by our banner statement of Connect, Inspire, Excel - Together. Located in Broken Hill, in Far West NSW, we provide a truly supportive and caring environment in a rural setting where staff are passionate about challenging our students to achieve to their potential.  Our school's vision is to embed a positive school culture that challenges and supports all students to be higher order thinkers and become literate and numerate learners through quality teaching and distributive leadership. Willyama High School has an enrolment of 480 students including 84 Aboriginal students (approximately 17% of the student population) and is staffed with 47 teachers and 18 administrative and support staff.  Our school has responded to challenges to come up with innovative approaches to continue to provide a wide range of opportunities and experiences to engage students as the town's population has declined.. There is curriculum collaboration with Broken Hill High School in the Reaching Across the Secondary Program (RASP) for Stage 6 courses. Our school has six students involved in the virtual selective high school Aurora College for English, Mathematics and Science. Our school maintains strong links with Western Institute of TAFE (Broken Hill campus) who offer courses such as Automotive Studies, Electrotechnology, Health Services and Hairdressing in Stage 6. Our school is extremely proud of the positive culture built around our school values of respect, responsibility and cooperation. The expectations and behavioural standards of these values are explicitly taught across the curriculum. This enables our school to address the long term needs of our students to build their capacity to be successful lifelong learners in an increasingly complex world.