Ulladulla High School

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The Ulladulla High School difference

Connection to community

Through respectful, trusting and reciprocal relationships, our connections with community and organisations help strengthen and enrich our students' wellbeing.

Safe, inclusive and supportive

Through quality teaching, individualised support and a commitment to equity, we create an inclusive and supportive school environment where every student feels safe, welcomed and ready to learn.

Academic Excellence

We are committed to helping every student excel and realise their unique potential, offering diverse learning pathways that nurture and strengthen each student's individual abilities.

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Welcome to Ulladulla High School

A world class school that builds creative, innovative young people with future skills through collaboration with outstanding teachers who are leaders in learning. Care, kindness and respect are paramount at the UHS Summit.

Why choose us?

Principal's Message

I welcome you to Ulladulla High School, a progressive, world class school that provides an outstanding education, with a focus on equity, in which ALL students build the best version of themselves through their own agency as learners.

Excellence is achieved in the culture of care, high expectation and seeing potential.

I am proud to say I am the long-standing principal of this terrific school; I am a community leader and a highly respected educational influential thinker. I believe that we never stop learning. Last year, I received a Churchill Fellowship (2025 Fellow) to travel overseas to investigate international case studies on school leadership and I am currently completing my Doctor of Education (UNSW) researching equity, and philanthropy in rural NSW public schools. I have completed a 2 year term as a system leader in the role as the elected President on the NSW Secondary Principals Council, a professional association of principals that advocates to benefit all students in NSW Public schools. I am extremely committed to the future of our students to become outstanding global learners.

I believe in every student’s potential, and I lead our school to ensure each student has the opportunity to become the ‘best version of themselves’. However, it is a place that you will get as much as you put in. Your challenge is to be as involved with the life of the school as much as you can. I encourage you to take every opportunity, I mean every opportunity, however, small, it’s all about making one step at a time.

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

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