Killarney Heights High School

Killarney Heights High School
Location
Starkey Street, Killarney Heights, NSW Australia
Information
Type	Public, secondary
Motto	Sylle Aefter Faerelde (To each according to his/her conduct)
Established	1967
Principal	Ms Hayley Emmerton
Grades	7–12
Enrolment	954 in 2010
Colour(s)	Blue, White and Green
Website	KHHS website

Killarney Heights High School is a coeducational, comprehensive high school located on Starkey Street, Killarney Heights near the Northern Beaches of Sydney. The school is situated in a quiet bushland setting within 20 minutes drive of the Sydney central business district.

The school has a strong tradition of high academic achievement, catering for individual student needs and providing a broad co-curricular program.

The motto is thought to have come from an abbreviated quote from the writings of a late Old English abbott and Aelfric of Eynsham “a prolific writer of religious literature, including translations from the Bible, saints’ lives and homilies. It reads as follows: Ic afandie manna heotan: & heora lendena. & aelcum sylle aefter his faerelde.& aefter his agenre afundennysse. This means:’to each I will give according to his {life} journey and according to his own invention [or discovery]”.

The school motto "sylle aefter faerelde" was translated as "To each according to his/her conduct". The fact that the word ‘his’ is missing from the original quote is probably because Killarney Heights High is a coeducational school. The three words on their own can also be interpreted as “sylle” – foundation, “aefter” – after, “faerelde”- journey.

School Captains

See also

• List of Government schools in New South Wales
• Northern Beaches
• Killarney Heights
• Forestville, New South Wales

External links

• Killarney Heights High School website
• New South Wales Department of Education and Training - Killarney Heights High School

Coordinates: 33°46′18″S 151°12′55″E / 33.77167°S 151.21528°E / -33.77167; 151.21528