Pennant Hills High School

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Pennant Hills High School

Nil Nisi Bonum (Latin:"Nothing except what is good")
Established	1966
School type	Public, Secondary, Co-educational, Day school
Principal/ Headmaster	Mr. Geoff Wing
Location	Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33°44′0″S 151°3′38″E / -33.73333, 151.06056Coordinates: 33°44′0″S 151°3′38″E / -33.73333, 151.06056
Campus	Suburban
Enrolment	~1,250
School colours	Red, Blue, White & Black
Homepage	pennanthil-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Pennant Hills High School is a public, comprehensive, co-educational, high school situated in the northern suburb of Pennant Hills in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1966, the school has a student population of 1,270 students as of 2004,^[1] and has generally maintained these student numbers. The street address is Boundary Road, but all access is via Laurence Street. In 2007, Pennant Hills High School ranked 5th behind Hornsby Girls' High School, Barker College, Normanhurst Boys' High School and Knox Grammar School (Reported by: Victor Jones_H.S.C. Coordinator)

1 Educational structure
2 Physical buildings and grounds
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Educational structure

Pennant Hills High School offers many subjects, with the staff faculties including: Social Sciences, Agriculture, English, History, Maths, Visual Arts, Industrial Arts, Languages, Physical Education. PHHS also contains a Special Education system, helping physically and mentally challenged students.

[edit] Physical buildings and grounds

Pennant Hills High School contains a multi-purpose centre (Robert Stacey Hall), new Design and Technology/Visual Arts buildings, the Alfred Gray Memorial Library, and many specialty rooms including science labs, cooking and computer rooms. It also has two fields for sports such as football, rugby and cricket. An agricultural plot is located at the rear of the school, housing crops, sheep, goats and other livestock.

The school's buildings were constructed according to the hilly terrain of the area, so that there are no more than two levels at any single point. PHHS has 4 levels, and room numbers are determined by which level it is in: Level 1 is primarily Social Sciences (Commerce, Geography, etc), but also has Portable Rooms, which were used while the school was recovering from the fire, in 2001. Level 2 has Language, Science, Cooking, and Drama, while Level 3 (located at the Laurence Street level) is where the main quad of the school is located, along with the library and reception. It too, has Science rooms, as well as math, history, and Wood/Metal/Plastic Technology Rooms. Level 4 is primarily English, History, Maths and Visual Arts classrooms. The Industrial and Visual Arts building (completed in 2005) has two main entry points, from the Main Quad (in Level 3) and through a pedestrian bridge on Level 4.

The school suffered from a fire on 11 June 2001, destroying the school administration building, Industrial Arts Block, and the English, History, Mathematics and Visual Arts Staffrooms.^[2] As is commonly the case with such school fires, many student works (notably Visual and Industrial arts HSC projects) were destroyed, causing considerable distress among affected students. Operation Phoenix Rising oversaw the completion of the rebuilding effort in 2005.^[3] The school now has had an elevator installed between levels 2 and 4 (for use by disabled or injured students), and a new Design and Technology and Visual Arts building. In 2005, a new Covered Outdoor Learning Area (COLA) was constructed.