Keira High School

Keira High School

Office hours: 8:30am – 3:15pm

Address: Lysaght Street, Fairy Meadow, New South Wales, Australia

Postal: PO Box 19, Fairy Meadow, New South Wales, Australia, 2519

Phone: +61 (2) 4229 4644

Fax: +61 (2) 4226 9983

Email: keira-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Keira High school is a comprehensive, co-educational school that has a long tradition of delivering quality education to the community of Wollongong. The school was established in 1917 as Wollongong Junior Secondary Technical school. In 1939 land was purchased near the Princes Highway, Fairy Meadow on which new school buildings were later built. In 1954 the school moved onto this site in Lysaght Street. Some years later, the school was renamed Keira Boys’ High School. In the early 1980’s, the State Government determined that the school would become co-educational with the first female students enrolling in 1984. The school was renamed Keira High School. In 1990, the school became a technology high school.

Today, Keira High School is proud of its rich history and traditions but looks to the future as a confident innovative and dynamic school.

The school’s crest is a traditional shield designed and adopted in 1984 when the school became co-educational. It represents both strength and protection. The school’s motto since 1917, Excelsior, is the comparative form of Excelsus, Latin for high or lofty, Excelsior then means Reaching Higher. Longfellow, the English poet, provided Keira’s first teaching staff with the inspiration to adopt the word Excelsior as our motto. Longfellow wrote a poem on the incessant aspiration for youth to achieve, ending with the line, “A voice replied, ‘For up the height, Excelsior’”.

Enrolment of New Students

For new students wishing to enrol at Keira High School, parents need to firstly contact the school administration office to organise an enrolment interview. The School Principal conducts all enrolment interviews. Parents are asked to contact the School Administration Office to arrange an appointment with the Principal.

Fees

In order to resource all curriculum programs in their current form, it is vital for parents to provide some essential learning resources and materials. This takes the form of a school fee that is to be collected from all students from Year 7 to 12. All fees collected from parents are spent on classroom resources for students.

The money collected allows the school to supplement a range of learning support programs including additional texts, photocopying, technology facilities, maintenance of student computer folders, sporting equipment, student welfare initiatives and extra-curricula activities. This makes for a more interesting, dynamic and diverse school. The learning outcomes of all students are therefore improved with the use of the resources.

The school has set the fees at (unchanged since 2001):

Years 7 – 10               $50.00

Years 11 – 12             $65.00

As well, those elective subjects that involve the consumption of additional expensive resources attract a Subject Elective Fee on a cost-recovery basis.

Support for Students

School Counsellors are experienced teachers who have post graduate qualifications in Psychology and School Counselling. They work with students from pre-school to Year 12. School Counsellors work with students, parents, carers and teachers in a variety of ways and their work includes; counselling students, assisting parents or carers to make informed decisions about their children’s education, assessing student’s learning and behaviour and liaising with other agencies to support students. Students may refer themselves to the school counsellor at any time or may seek an interview at the suggestion of parent/carer, teacher or friend. School Counselling is a confidential service, and confidentiality will be maintained unless legal requirements override it, eg. Child protection. Parents/carers may seek advice from the school counsellor regarding a student’s school progress, education services, child’s behaviour and obtaining information from other agencies. Parental/carer consent is always required before any psychological testing is undertaken. It is necessary that parents/carers who wish to see the school counsellor make an appointment by telephoning the school. Priorities for the school counsellor’s time will be determined, in consultation with the School Counsellor, by the Principal.

Merit System

Students are rewarded for displaying behaviours or actions of a positive nature. This might include exemplary classwork, sporting achievements, social responsibility and academic excellence.

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