Padbury Senior High School

Infobox Aust school
name = Padbury Senior High School

| motto = "Imagine, Create, Achieve"
established = 1987
type = Public, Secondary, Co-educational, Day school
principal = Mr. Trevor Drinkwater
city = Perth
state = W.A
country = Australia
campus = Padbury
enrolment = 504 (2008)
colours = Navy Blue, Red & White
homepage = [http://www.padbury.wa.edu.au www.padbury.wa.edu.au]

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.

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 Padbury - one Western Australia's early pioneers.

Padbury SHS has the motto "imagine . . . create . . . achieve" and is currently working to turn this into a vision for the school's future. This is being done as part of the IDEAS [http://ideas.usq.edu.au/] school revitalization process run by the University of Southern Queensland [http://www.usq.edu.au/] .

Campus

The Padbury Senior High School campus is located in a suburban area. Current facilities of the school include a Performing Arts 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 courts and cricket nets.

pecial programs

Padbury Senior High School has a number of special programs running within the school, such as:
*Marine Studies - including an internationally accredited scuba training program
*School Based Academic Extension
*Autism Education Unit
*Arts Scholarship Program

ee also

*List of schools in Western Australia

External links

* [http://www.padbury.wa.edu.au Padbury Senior High School website]