Hornsby Girls' High School | |
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![]() Hornsby Girls' High School | |
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Australia | |
Coordinates | 33°42′23″S151°6′5″E / 33.70639°S 151.10139°E |
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Type | Government-funded single-sex selective secondary day school |
Motto | Faith with Fortitude |
Established | 1930[1] |
Principal | Justin Briggs |
Gender | Girls |
Enrolment | 720 |
Campus | Suburban |
Colour(s) | Fawn and navy blue |
Website | hornsbygir-h |
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Hornsby Girls' High School is a government-funded single-sex academically selective secondary day school for girls, located in Hornsby, a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1930, the school's first principal was the scientist Sarah Agnes Angus Brewster. [1]
Academically, Hornsby Girls' is regularly ranked first in the Hornsby region in terms of Higher School Certificate (HSC) results and is repeatedly ranked as one of the top ten performing schools in the state. [2] [3]
The school has a student exchange program with three of their languages – Japanese, French and German. Their Japanese sister school is Shukutoku Yono which is situated in Saitama, their German sister school is Graf-Rasso in Furstenfeldbruck and students from the school have visited New Caledonia a few times in recent years.[ when? ]
The 13 faculties in the school are English, History, Geography, Languages, Mathematics, Music, Personal Development Health and Physical Education (PD/H/PE), Science, Social Sciences, Technology and Applied Studies (TAS), and Visual Arts.
Hornsby Girls' offers students the opportunity to participate in a number of musical groups, namely the Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band and String Orchestra through their co-curricular music program. Smaller musical outfits are other outlets, such as the several chamber ensembles made up from those students who already play an instrument and wish to be involved in extra-curricular musical groups. [4]
Other musical groups are the Junior and Senior Vocal Ensembles, who participate in a range of competitions, including the MacDonald's Performing Arts Competition and School Spectacular. In 2008, they also appeared in Battle of the Choirs, screened on Channel 7. [5] [6] In 2010, a small chamber vocal ensemble was introduced with the aim of allowing some students a small ensemble experience.
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