Our Year 12 Award Ceremony for 2018 was held in the Nautilus Theatre last night, with a large crowd of invited guests, families, PLHS staff and some very relieved Year 12 students in attendance. The event served as an opportunity to recognise the outstanding contributions and achievements of a host of students, staff and community...Read More
This week saw another busy schedule of physical activities staged to celebrate PE Week for 2018. Each day presented students with the opportunity to participate in a variety of interschool sporting competitions (golf, cricket and touch football) and lunchtime activities (netball, dodgeball, matball and volleyball), and culminated in today’s 3.5km Foreshore Fun Run. Participants were...Read More
For a gold coin donation, PLHS staff and students were treated to a lunchtime sausage sizzle barbecue and freshly squeezed fruit juice back at school following today’s Foreshore Fun Run. This fundraiser was arranged and delivered by Year 9 student Tyrene Gardner, with the assistance of SRC Coordinator Mrs Sarah Kidd and several volunteer staff and students. A...Read More
Demanding conditions greeted players at the Port Lincoln Golf Club earlier today for the annual Interschool Golf Challenge between Port Lincoln High School and St. Joseph’s School. Aside from the obvious challenge of trying to master an incredibly difficult sport, participating students also had to overcome high temperatures, strong northerly winds, raised dust, falling branches,...Read More
Earlier this year, I reported on the wonderful recycling scheme that was initiated by my Special Education students, as part of our ongoing Science and Maths studies. My Room 23 class have been encouraging all PLHS staff and students to recycle their cans and bottles in specially designed bins dedicated to our four SportsDay houses....Read More
The South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) is the first senior-secondary curriculum in Australia to move to electronic exams. Earlier this afternoon, this new era began at Port Lincoln High School with thirteen students sitting the electronic exam for Stage 2 English Literary Studies in our new STEM Centre. Key teachers, ICT and administrative staff, together...Read More
On Wednesday October 31st, my Year 11 PE class and I had the opportunity to participate in an introductory self-defence class at Spektrum Port Lincoln. Although the students were initially a little unsure of what to expect, they came away from the session buzzing about what they had just learnt. As one student put it:...Read More
Senior School Assistant Principal Miss Tash Rayson officially opened Port Lincoln High School’s annual Year 12 Art/Design Exhibition last night, before a large crowd of students, families and staff. The impressive practical work and written statements of eleven art and design students is now on display in the Nautilus Arts Centre’s Rotary Gallery, until Monday November 19th. This...Read More
nebula (noun): 1. a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter. nebulous (adjective) 1. in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy. 2. (of a concept) vague or ill-defined. 2018 Port Lincoln High...Read More
