Padbury Senior High School
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Padbury Senior High School is a government, co-educational, secondary
day school
located in Padbury
, a suburb north of Perth
, Western Australia
.
Padbury Senior High School offers a comprehensive
education to students from Year 8 to Year 12. Situated in the North West Metropolitan corridor, the school draws its students mainly from the suburbs of Hillarys
, Padbury and Hepburn Heights. The school is of modern design and was constructed to cater for at least 1000 students. On 27 October 2010, the Education Minister announced that Padbury Senior High School would close at the end of 2011 due to declining enrolments.
- one Western Australia's early pioneers.
The school was upgraded in 2006 following the closure of nearby Craigie Senior High School
at the end of 2003. Students from Craigie were enrolled at either Padbury or Belridge Senior High School
and both schools received upgrades to cope with higher student numbers.
In 2010, it was decided that Padbury Senior High would close at the end of 2011 due to declining enrolments, and an expected student population of under 200. Students enrolled at Padbury Senior High School would move to either nearby schools Duncraig Senior High and Belridge Senior High.
Theatre
, a Visual Arts
Centre, a Photography
Laboratory, a Pastoral Care Centre and specialist facilities in Music
, Home Economics
, Design and Technology, Business Education, Computing
and Physical Education
. In addition, the school has two ovals, tennis court
s and cricket
nets.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
day school
Day school
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children/teens return to their homes...
located in Padbury
Padbury, Western Australia
Padbury is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Joondalup. Its postcode is 6025. The suburb was named in 1971 after the notable Western Australian settler Walter Padbury...
, a suburb north of Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
.
Padbury Senior High School offers a comprehensive
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
education to students from Year 8 to Year 12. Situated in the North West Metropolitan corridor, the school draws its students mainly from the suburbs of Hillarys
Hillarys, Western Australia
Hillarys is a northern coastal suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Joondalup. It is part of the Whitfords precinct, and is located 21 km north-northwest of Perth's central business district via Mitchell Freeway and Hepburn...
, Padbury and Hepburn Heights. The school is of modern design and was constructed to cater for at least 1000 students. On 27 October 2010, the Education Minister announced that Padbury Senior High School would close at the end of 2011 due to declining enrolments.
History
The school opened in 1987 with Year 8 students drawn from various primary schools in the surrounding area. It currently has an average of 504 students. The school is named after Walter PadburyWalter Padbury
Walter Padbury was an Australian pioneer and philanthropist.Padbury was born at Stonesfield, near Woodstock, in the English county of Oxfordshire. He arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia in the Protector with his father on 25 February 1830, but in the following July his father died...
- one Western Australia's early pioneers.
The school was upgraded in 2006 following the closure of nearby Craigie Senior High School
Craigie Senior High School
Craigie Senior High School was a State high school located in Craigie, a northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.Craigie SHS's main feeder schools when it opened were Craigie Primary School, Camberwarra Primary School, Padbury Primary School, Lymburner Primary School and Springfield Primary...
at the end of 2003. Students from Craigie were enrolled at either Padbury or Belridge Senior High School
Belridge Senior High School
Belridge Senior High School is a comprehensive co-educational state high school located in Beldon, south of Joondalup in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia...
and both schools received upgrades to cope with higher student numbers.
In 2010, it was decided that Padbury Senior High would close at the end of 2011 due to declining enrolments, and an expected student population of under 200. Students enrolled at Padbury Senior High School would move to either nearby schools Duncraig Senior High and Belridge Senior High.
Campus
The Padbury Senior High School campus is located in a suburban area. Current facilities of the school include a Performing ArtsPerforming arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
Theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, a Visual Arts
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
Centre, a Photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
Laboratory, a Pastoral Care Centre and specialist facilities in Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, Home Economics
Home Economics
Home economics is the profession and field of study that deals with the economics and management of the home and community...
, Design and Technology, Business Education, Computing
Computing
Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
and Physical Education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
. In addition, the school has two ovals, tennis court
Tennis court
A tennis court is where the game of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the center. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles.-Dimensions:...
s and cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
nets.
Special programs
Padbury Senior High School has a number of special programs running within the school, such as:- Marine Studies - including an internationally accredited scubaScuba divingScuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater....
training program - School Based Academic Extension
- AutismAutismAutism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their...
Education Unit - Arts Scholarship Program