INFORMATION for 2021 Motto Priorities Non Scholae Sed Vitae We Are Committed To: Not Only for School but for Life 1

INFORMATION FOR 2021 Motto Priorities Non Scholae Sed Vitae We are committed to: Not only for school but for life 1. Wellbeing: A safe and welcoming environment based upon mutual respect. Vision 2. Learning: Engaging and challenging learning Adelaide High School is a dynamic community experiences through: which is passionate about learning for life. • Reflective, innovative and Wellbeing: We encourage the social, emotional, contemporary practices intellectual and physical development of all members of our community. Respect, resilience • Varied curriculum and and optimism help us flourish. co-curricular offerings Learning: We nurture independent, creative and • Learning within and beyond collaborative learners. Curiosity and innovation the classroom motivate us to excel individually and collectively. 3.Culture: Developing compassionate, Culture: We celebrate diversity, promote positive and contributing citizens. intercultural understandings and connect with communities here and across the world. We reflect on our past and learn in the present to shape our future. I just wanted to thank you for your amazing work Adelaide High School is a school of opportunity with the Year 8 Transition Program. Our daughter which encourages students to participate in a wide has loved every day she has spent at the school variety of leadership positions and programs of so far. I have been really impressed with the great excellence in Languages, Science, Mathematics, care you have taken to support the students STEM, cricket and rowing. in what could be a very stressful and anxiety- Rebekah Frisby-Smith | Head Prefect 2019 provoking time. I have been astounded as I have watched my Adelaide High is a school where academics and daughter blossom in your care and embrace the sports are catered for equally to help you become opportunities you have offered her. She has taken the best person you can be. your excellent advice to heart. Samyak Jain | Head Prefect 2019 Year 8 parents | 2020 Transition Program Adelaide High is my second family; it’s a place where you can be who you want to be, and it teaches you that you’re unique. Bhavika Jindal | SRC President 2019 WELCOME TO THE ADELAIDE HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY Adelaide High is divided into four Houses – Adey, Macghey, Morriss, and West - and students are allocated to one House upon enrolment. In their House students work closely with staff and students, all of whom will be an important part of their learning journey throughout their secondary schooling. Students will experience a range of learning opportunities from within the curriculum and through co-curricular activities and clubs. They will encounter a variety of new and exciting learning experiences through the Arts, Languages, a large variety of sports, international study tours, movie making, cultivating Trees For Life, community service activities Adelaide High has a heartbeat and a such as working with charity organisations around soul which is shaped by our students, the CBD, in clubs, through student leadership in Houses, as Prefects and SRC Representatives, World staff, families, Old Scholars and the wider Challenge, formal assemblies … and the list goes on. community. We are really looking forward Embrace the opportunities that Adelaide High School to working in partnership with you over provides. Families, please know you are an important the next five years and beyond. part of this journey and we look forward to sharing this together, ‘not only for school but for life’. Adelaide High students make lifetime connections and develop skills, capabilities and qualities that If you wish to extend your understanding of how prepare them for a dynamic and unpredictable future. we work with our families and students to achieve Students develop a strong sense of community, our motto, I invite you to join me on a Principal tour intrinsic motivation and understand that they can which are held weekly. make a difference to the lives of others. Integrating Cez Green | Principal community service, student leadership and student agency into formal and informal learning opportunities is central to learning at Adelaide High School. A Great Place to Learn Centre for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Situated in the west of the city, Adelaide High Adelaide High School offers students with a hearing School utilises its unique location to extend learning loss access to tailored, specialised programs which opportunities beyond the classroom. Fostering strong meet their individual needs. Students have access partnerships with corporations such as SAHMRI, the to a range of subjects and are fully integrated into universities and the Royal Adelaide Hospital are just mainstream classes with the support of Teachers of some examples of how learning is connected within the Deaf and/or Bilingual School Services Officers a genuine and meaningful context. Museums, the (BSSOs) who assist in differentiating learning plans State Library, the Central Market, sporting facilities, for targeted teaching to occur. theatres and much more are all a stone’s throw away, enabling rich, contemporary learning experiences Student Agency for all at AHS. Surrounded by parklands and four Student agency forms an integral part of Adelaide ovals, we boast refurbished tennis, netball and High School’s curriculum and leadership program. basketball courts, a Futsal court, cricket nets and At Adelaide High School, we believe that every two rowing club boatsheds to further support our student has leadership potential. Students strong emphasis on sporting and healthy lifestyle maximise their learning by engaging with their opportunities. teacher to co-design their learning programs. The Government has funded a substantial building This also extends to involvement in co-curricular program to cater for the arrival of Year 7 students and programs where students can be involved in to provide state of the art specialist learning areas. coaching and mentoring of other students. The school has been extensively upgraded in recent Students are supported to be involved in a years with: variety of leadership groups across all year • A contemporary Performing Arts Centre catering levels. These groups include: Prefects, Student for various disciplines in a collaborative and Representative Council, Middle School and innovative space Senior School Leaders, Peer Leaders, Interact • A new wing comprising general learning areas, and International Ambassadors. Drama workshop, PE laboratory, three Science laboratories, Library, IT Help Desk • Innovative Mathematics Centre • New STEM rooms • Refurbished Languages, Art and Home Economics areas Internationalism at Parent/Carer Partnerships Adelaide High School Adelaide High School invites parents/carers into the life Adelaide High School is a vibrant and diverse of the school in a partnership to support their child’s community. The school takes pride in its continuing learning. Parent/carer involvement is encouraged and welcomed at many levels. Opportunities for parental accreditation as a member of the Council of involvement include participation as a coach in one International Schools, delivering education at or more of our many sport programs, as a member international standards. A key feature of the school’s of a committee, including the Governing Council, as commitment to international education, since 1978, a volunteer in one of our associations, as a guest is its special focus on modern languages. The school speaker in our learning programs and as a host for offers eight languages which foster intercultural our many international and interstate visitors. and communication skills. This enables students Communication with parents/carers is welcomed to develop the vital capabilities necessary in order and encouraged through the use of the new School to access the global economic, social and cultural App, our learner management system (Daymap), our dimensions of our modern multilingual context. website and other electronic and conventional means. Adelaide High School supports international mindedness and intercultural understandings Assessment and Reporting through: Comprehensive information about student learning • Acceptance of and respect for others is provided by an electronic report each term and and ourselves by subject level information on student achievement provided continuously by each teacher on the • Awareness of and empathy for local Daymap Parent Portal. The Portal also allows for and global issues parent/carer communication directly with subject • Seeking to understand ourselves and others teachers. Two parent teacher interview evenings and striving for harmony are scheduled in May and August of each year. • Building and honouring a unified yet diverse linguistic and cultural community Curriculum • Celebrating our diverse linguistic and cultural Middle School: Years 8 and 9 community for the benefit of global sustainability Adelaide High School nurtures a collaborative culture and peace. which supports innovation, intellectual stretch and creativity. Teaching and learning respond to students’ In addition, the school also has a strong commitment diverse learning needs and interests, and provide to welcoming international students, attracted by our pathways to empower students to be self-directed, high standard of education, services and international collaborative and cultivate the capabilities required of profile. The International Student Program enrols our future innovators and problem solvers. up to 75 students each year. The students are fully Teachers

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