Open High School Sydney

Open High School
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Information
Type	Public
Motto	"Excellence in the teaching and learning of languages by distance education"
Established	1991
Principal	Stephen Murray
Enrolment	1988
Campus	Urban
Colour(s)	Blue, White
Website	http://www.theopenhs-d.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Main Building

The Open High School in Australia, is part of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training. In 1991 The New South Wales Correspondence School, which catered for preschool to Year 12 students, was decentralised into 19 Distance Education Centres located in schools across the state. At this time the Learning Materials Production Centre was formed to produce learning materials for all these centres and the Open High School was established.

Enrolment

Enrolment is available to students currently enrolled in secondary or central schools, both government and non-government, located in New South Wales or approved Australian Capital Territory or Papua New Guinea secondary or central schools. The main purposes of the school are to assist students to:

• extend their curriculum options
• maintain continuity of study, e.g. when transferring between schools

To enrol, students must satisfy published enrolment criteria, e.g. study of family language. The maximum enrolments from schools are determined by a quota system; e.g. a school with 600 students is allowed up to six new distance education enrolments each year. Currently courses are offered at School Certificate and Higher School Certificate levels in the following languages:

• Chinese
• French
• German
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Latin
• Modern Greek
• Russian
• Spanish

Open High School operates in a distance education mode with students and teachers rarely being together in the same place. Teachers provide students with distance education learning experiences which are designed to meet their individual needs. Some of the strategies employed involve the use of:

• printed materials
• CD/DVD materials
• telephone lessons
• face-to-face individual and group lessons
• computer-assisted communication
• internet-based exercises

Achievements

The Open High School has a history of high achievement by students sitting HSC examinations.^{[citation needed]}

Location Map

Location

Open High School is located at 78 Avoca St in the suburb of Randwick in Sydney's east.