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APHS ShowcaseOur schoolALICIA WHEATLEY,Year 8
ALBION Park High Schoolis a co-educational highschool located at 120 ChurchStreet in Albion Park.
The school wasestablished in 1991 andsince its opening the schoolhas established a strongreputation for sporting,academic and culturalachievements.
We have a significantspecial education programwith the ability to educate awide range of students withintellectual disabilities.
Our school’s principal isMs Suzi Clapham and ourdeputy principals are MrPaul Ryan and Mr JeffHollingsworth.
Our 2013-2014 schoolcaptains are Jessica Hulland Joshua Leet.
Our school has threestudent leadership groups,the SRC (StudentRepresentative Committee),CAPA (Creative andPerforming Arts) and SportsCommittee.
These committees providestudents with theopportunity to developstrong leadership skills andorganise and fund-raise foractivities in and outside ofschool.
At Albion Park HighSchool, our three corevalues of respect,responsibility andcommitment aredemonstrated throughpositive studentinvolvement in learningexperiences.
Established: 1991Address: 120 Church Street,Albion ParkPhone: 4257 1744Fax: 4257 1826Email: [email protected] of students: 900Number of staff: 63Principal: Ms Suzi ClaphamDeputy principals: Mr JeffHollingsworth and Mr Paul RyanSchool leaders: Jessica Hull andJoshua LeetMotto: Challenge the Future
Chasing the charities
Helping out: Albion Park High’s 2013 Relay for Life team raised money for cancer research.
GEORGIA FALCONYear 8
ALBION Park High Schoolhas always supported manycharities includingBandanna Day, The BushFire Appeal, The Year 8Fun Run supporting CampQuality, the 40 HourFamine, Wrapped withLove and Relay for Life.
In both 2012 and 2013,Albion Park High School’syear 8 participated in a funrun.
This year the fun run wasthemed bright colours andsportswear, which led tohigher student involve-ment.
Doing multiple activitiesduring this event made itinteresting and fun.
The year 8 cohort areproud of the money thatthey have raised and evenhad the privilege of gettingthe school’s name on thePeople’s Truck in the recentCamp Quality Convoy.
With the recent bush firesand the devastation in theBlue Mountains andSouthern Highlands, anappeal was definitely oneof the most important fund-raisers the school
community organised. Allstudents and staff wereencouraged to wear a redpiece of clothing or
accessory and donate a goldcoin.
Bandanna Day wasanother great success with
the help of our school’sStudent RepresentativeCouncil. The SRC gave uptheir lunch times to sell
bandannas and pens. Aftera few days of selling, theSRC had sold out ofbandannas and pens thatthey were given to sell. Thiswas a very big achievement.
Did you know that thereare millions of peoplesuffering extreme cold?Well, Wrapped with Love isa program run by ourlibrarian, Mrs Estherby.The students of Albion ParkHigh created knittedsquares to make blanketsfor the people who aresuffering. In total we madeseven blankets which werethen distributed to peoplein need locally or overseas.
The 40 Hour Famine is acharity that many of thestudents of Albion ParkHigh School are involvedwith. To raise money theywent for 40 hours withoutthe things that we all takefor granted and thisinitiative raised a helpfulamount of money for peoplein Third World countries.
The Albion Park HighSchool community areextremely proud of thestudents and theircompassion to those whoare less fortunate, both inAustralia and overseas.
Albion Park wins with VETCAITLYN DIAZYear 8
Training excellence: Albion Park High’s seven recipients ofIllawarra VET excellence awards.
TUESDAY November 12marked a very successfulday for Albion Park Highschool and various otherschools in the Illawarra.
The VET (VocationalEducation and Training)awards took place on thisday and 83 students in theIllawarra were nominatedfor awards. Six studentsfrom our school from years11 and 12 received awards,being nominated from over1000 students who are inVET programs.
● Amanda Blazevska (year12) for hospitality –multiskilling● Tayla Lawrence (year 12)for business services andhospitality – multiskilling● Amy Lee (year 12) forhospitality – multiskilling● Benjamin Longden (year12) for business services● Kyle Williams (year 12) forsports coaching● Jessica Hector (year 11)for retail services
All of our students didexceptionally well but twostudents were recognised asthe best of the best in theircourses and received
awards for Student of theYear.
Amanda Blazevska fromyear 12 received Student ofthe Year for hospitality –multiskilling, and JessicaHector from year 11received hers forexcellence in retailservices.
Thousands of studentsfrom Bulli all the way downto Kiama take part in theVET program. Our school isfortunate enough to berunning seven classes.
Congratulations toeveryone who receivedawards, you did very well.
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