Woolgoolga High School

Woolgoolga High School is a dynamic school which believes in offering a broad curriculum enabling students to discover and maximise their potential and encouraging them to accept responsibility for their learning. The achievement of this involves creating and maintaining a positive school climate, conducive to learning, creating a safe, happy, challenging and rewarding environment for students and staff, recognising and rewarding success, challenging gifted and talented students, creating a professional environment which embraces the highest standards of classroom teaching practice having high expectations of students while at the same time, leading them and promoting student and school achievement in the community. Ultimately, our students will leave Woolgoolga as well rounded human beings, with a real sense of responsibility towards others, an appreciation of the value of learning and a sense of satisfaction that they have achieved academically to the best of their ability or beyond. One of the main strengths of Woolgoolga High is the broad range of experiences and support that we offer students. Students are provided with opportunities to excel academically, with students consistently achieveimeng at the highest level in the HSC, as well as in Creative and Performing Arts, sport, public speaking, chess and debating. In 2025 we are establishing a sports academy for elite athletes. There are also a number of specially designed programs in the school to support students. Our Peer Tutor Reading Program is hugely successful in improving students' reading skills while the school was awarded a Director-General's Award for Excellence in Literacy in 2003. A second Director-General's Award was given in 2009 for the school's outstanding Student Welfare Program. In 2004, the school also received a highly prestigious national award for "Excellence in Leadership of Indigenous Education" as a result of our programs supporting Aboriginal students. Woolgoolga High school is a public school to be proud of with a positive culture that celebrates student achievement and supports all students to achieve their best.

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Demountables

Cooler Classrooms

This school’s Cooler Classrooms project is now complete, and the school is enjoying a healthier learning environment.

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Complete

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LED Upgrade

The $157.8 million LED Lighting Upgrade Program will install new LED lights in up to 1,000 public schools across NSW. This means reduced operating costs for schools and improved learning environments and outcomes for our students.

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Program

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Completed

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Maintenance

To ensure the safety, reliability and longevity of our schools, every school across NSW receives maintenance. The Department undertakes preventative and routine maintenance every year, and repairs as needed. The Department also reviews the planned maintenance program for each school every year and reviews those items that are predicted to require work to help prolong the life of the school buildings and facilities.

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Schools Renewal

The $240 million Schools Renewal Program aims to accelerate projects that will improve the amenity of schools and kick start local jobs for local communities. This is a co-funded program, with each school contributing up to 50 per cent of the project cost.

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Program

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Completed

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Demountables

Demountables have been part of the NSW education system for many decades and will continue to be used across the state. Demountable classrooms are modern, air-conditioned rooms that provide students and teaching staff with excellent quality facilities. The learning spaces have the same range of technology that is available in permanent spaces. We review school accommodation needs each year, looking at changing enrolment patterns and other factors to prepare for the upcoming school year. This helps to identify schools that need new demountables and schools where they can removed. Most demountable movement takes place between October and February and we report our annual demountable statistics each April. Additional demountable installations can occur outside this window to support capital works and maintenance projects in schools or emergency responses to natural disasters.

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We recognise the Ongoing Custodians of the lands and waterways where we work and live. We pay respect to Elders past and present as ongoing teachers of knowledge, songlines and stories. We strive to ensure every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learner in NSW achieves their potential through education.

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