Our Vision

• Student Growth & Attainment
• Grow students from the inside out — building the skills, knowledge and dispositions to thrive through explicit teaching across writing, numeracy and HSC pathways.
• Collaborative Teacher Leadership
• Build a culture of collaborative expertise where professional learning drives measured changes in teacher practice, evidenced by better student engagement and outcomes.
• Real-World Connected Classrooms
• Connect learners to local, national and global contexts, building agency through the 4 C's — collaboration, communication, creativity, critical reflection.

Setting the scene

We have set the sails for our school, we are a place of excellence in critical ideas, collaborative learning and world class creative thinkers.

If you look around our school, you will see a school of immense facilities which has come about because of the support of our very hard working and committed community. We enjoy incredible community support across all areas of our curriculum.

The school is focussed on personalised educational pathways enabling students to become creative, mindful, entrepreneurial, and innovative young people with future skills.

The school has outstanding teachers who are collaborative leaders in learning enabling the dispositions of learning (creativity, collaboration, communication, critical reflection) through their classrooms and the learning experiences.

The school promotes and supports self-regulation, explicit quality feedback and the celebration of effort and excellence for ALL.

Our Teaches are always striving to improve, we strive to be leaders in learning, a team of teachers meet with academics and professors to explore new ways of learning, explicit teaching that prepare our students for the world of tomorrow.

What will, should and does learning look like at UHS?

• Learning is 24/7. Learning is about the whole person.
• Learning is not something that teachers switch on as a student walks through the front gate.
• Our students are truly engaged in the learning process and are co-designers in projects/products of learning.
• Large classroom collaboration spaces and quite learning study hubs, expert spaces including STEM, Marine Lab, Construction Shed and Hospitality Café
• We embrace Berry Street Learning – we greet students always with positive high regard.
• A vast curriculum including Big Picture Learning, Outdoor Education, Psychology, Duke of Ed, Agriculture, Vet courses across hospitality, Business Services, Construction and Entertainment.
• Exhibitions of learning (0ur Learning Expos where students show their learning journeys to the community).
• The notion of learning (classroom) is broad and sophisticated.
• Norms for learning are built around responsibility and respect
• HSC Results put us above our ‘like school’ group consistently.
• Project based learning is authentic and student works are quality products of learning.
• Generative AI is used authentically and with guidance.
• Student generated courses and student to student learning is fostered.
• Evolve Coaching and mentoring
• 4 Tiers of High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE)
• We explore ways of combining space, effort and tools differently.
• We use Coherence Makers to enable student Agency – students know themselves as learners.

It continues to be one of the most exciting times in education. Those of us in schools understand the importance of our role and take our work very seriously.

I encourage all prospective students and their parents to join one of my Principals Tours to view our immense facilities, take time to ask your individual questions. It is a great opportunity to understand the positive and successful learning experiences that our school provides, whether its creative, sporting or Academic rigor you are after, we can meet the needs of your child.

Call the front office to book your place to meet me and visit our terrific school.

Denise Lofts

Principal