Killarney Heights High School

Recent News

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Lions Youth of The Year Competition

On Wednesday evening Gabrielle Hardy of Year 11 won the local Lions Youth of The Year Competition. She won both sections of thecompetition and will now proceed to the district level next March. It was a highly competitive field of candidates.

Ruan Vloks' work selected for Art Express

Congratulations to Ruan whose Visusal Art work has been acknowledged as amongst the best examples of HSC works for 2009. We are yet to be advised as to where his work will be showcased.

NSW Quality Teaching Award to Mr. Webster

Congratulations to Mr Webster of our Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE) Faculty who is to receive a NSW Quality Teaching Award at Government House on Friday 13th November 2009. This is in recognition of his excellent classroom practice and his contribution to the teaching and learning of young people in NSW secondary schools. The process to achieve this award is acknowledged as one of the most rigorous in the country. This is an outstanding achievement.

KHHS Budding Master Chef

Congratulations to Catalina Gao who received the Year 11 Commercial Cookery award by the Northern Beaches Business Enterprise Network, presented at Miramare Gardens in Terrey Hills. This award is well recognized by employers who may subsequently be seeking trainees in the Hospitality industry. Well done Catalina and to her teacher Ms Thompson.

James' Investor Success

Congratulations to James Moylan of Year 9 who has come first in NSW and second nationally in The ASX Schools Sharemarket Game which is open to students from years 7-12 in any Australian school.

Quite an achievement!

Congratulations also to his teacher, Mr Gardner, who encouraged his students to enter this competition as part of their studies in Commerce.

In 'Game On' players are given a hypothetical $50,000 to invest over a 10 week period to buy and sell shares in Australia’s biggest companies, using real time prices. They create their own “virtual” share portfolio and compete against the market, their friends and players from high schools across Australia.

For his efforts, James wins $1,000 for himself and a staggering $4,000 for KHHS.

James will attend the awards ceremony at the ASX in Sydney on 24 November to be presented with the awards and then be given lunch and a tour of the City dealing room with the winners from other states.

Student artworks selcted

Congratulations to Ellie Langer, Olivia Roseberry and Ruan Vlok whose artworks have been selected for the Manly Art Gallery Express Yourself Exhibition.

Olivia Roseberry " Bodhi - Held by The Roots of The Earth"

Ruan Vlok "Versuche Uber Pflantzen Hybriden"

Ellie Langer "The Ways May Meet but Mingle Never"

School Captains and Prefects for 09/10

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS

Tim Biviano (Captain)
Max Christensen
Max Elliff (Vice Captain)
Danny Jung
Cameron Ludowyke
Sean Sadimoen
Megan Batchelor (Vice Captain)
Miranda Che
Gabrielle Hardy (Captain)
Paige Kenny
Tasha Samuels
Jiyeon You

HSC Results for 2008

Our HSC students achieved more top band results than previous years. Of particular note were the large number of students who achieved top band results in Extension courses, which are the most demanding courses of study. We were again ranked as the top performing comprehensive coeducational public high school in mathematics in NSW for the HSC.

Special congratulations to Matthew Clarke and Quan (Richard) Gu who were in the All Rounders Merit list for achieving top band results in every course that they studied for the HSC. A special congratulations to Matthew, who has achieved a UAI of 99.85 and was ranked 12th in the state in Advanced English.

Richard Gu's UAI is 99.45 and Shelley Su's UAI is 99.15.

At this stage we are aware of 16 students with a UAI over 90 and more are anticipated once we can contact some students who are not in Sydney at this time. On Tuesday 10 th February 2009 we will be holding our HSC High Achievers Assembly commencing at 10am to celebrate these outstanding achievements. We are very proud of our HSC class of 2008. The achievement of personal best has been demonstrated across the full range of students within our school.

In academic performance our years 7 and 9 students undertook the new National Assessment for Literacy and Numeracy – the NAPLAN tests and we were 10% above average in both literacy and numeracy.

Our 2008 School Certificate results, show that when we compare our performance in the top two band at KHHS with the rest of the state:

In English we had 40.53% compared to 38.35% in the state.
In Mathematics we had 36.48% compared to 25.39% in the state.(Over 72.29% of our students were in the top three bands compared to 49.27% in the state)
In Science 34.45% compared to 31.92% in the state
Australian History 22.96% compared to 22.98% in the state
Australian geography 32.43% compared to 28.17% in the state
Computing skills in the highly competent category we had 69.59% compared to 57.27% at state.