Padbury Senior High School

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Padbury Senior High School

Imagine, Create, Achieve
Established	1987
School type	Public, Secondary, Co-educational, Day school
Principal/ Headmaster	Mr. Trevor Drinkwater
Location	Perth, W.A, Australia
Campus	Padbury
Enrolment	504 (2008)
School colours	Navy Blue, Red & White
Homepage	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.

1 History
2 Campus
3 Special programs
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] 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 [1] school revitalization process run by the University of Southern Queensland [2].

[edit] 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.