Morley Senior High School

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Morley Senior High School
Together we can achieve
Established	1971
School type	Secondary, Public, Co-educational
Principal/ Headmaster	Gay Fortune
Location	Noranda, WA, Australia
Campus	Suburban
Enrolment	945
School colours	Blue, White, Red
Homepage	www.morleyhs.wa.edu.au

Morley Senior High School, (also known as MSHS or Morley High School) is a co-educational government school in the suburb of Noranda, Western Australia, twenty minutes from Perth. It sits on the border between the City of Bayswater and the City of Stirling council. It teaches Year 8 to 12 in the Western Australian education system.

Established in 1971, the school is located on a 10 hectare campus and is built on a faculty school design. Morley Senior High school is equipped with a gymnasium, practical and creative arts area (including the new Art Centre, completed in 2002 for Art, Photography, Graphics and Media) IT centre and canteen. There is a separate upper school block with facilities for Science, Maths, English and Society & Environment. Also in the upper school block, is a common room for student recreation and relaxation.

Morley Senior High School has had a long involvement with exchange schools, and has established sister schools from Italy, China and Japan. Each year, the school hosts exchange students from these schools for short and long term exchange programmes.

Curriculum guides explain subjects and courses of study, including special courses such as Music, Technology, Aeronautics, Dance, Theatre Arts, Drama, Japanese, Chinese and Italian. Upper school students who seek an alternative to academic studies, may enrol in Vocational Education and Training Programmes, which include studies in Visual Industry Design, or a general course of vocational studies.