Five students from the Port Lincoln Special School are currently attending PLHS each Thursday morning to undertake a dedicated Technology class with Mr Tony DuBois. Picture here are (L-R) Noah, Zac, Tony, Brodie, Rebecca and Dani. During the pilot program back in Semester 1, Tony assisted Noah and Zac to produce a wooden spatula,...Read More
Earlier today, Port Lincoln High School was privileged to receive a delegation of visitors from the Chinese province of Shandong. The group are in Port Lincoln as part of the China-Australia BRIDGE (Building Relationships through Intercultural Dialogue and Growing Engagement) Program, run locally by the Port Lincoln Primary School. Whilst on their ten-day tour...Read More
We wish to remind the PLHS school community that our phone number changed to 8683-6000 over a year ago. Telstra have been automatically diverting our old number since the change was made, but this service was switched off yesterday. Please update your records to the “new” number; thank you.Read More
Late last year, the Australian Government’s Department of Education and Training engaged Education Services Australia (ESA) to produce a series of video case studies. The brief was to highlight good practice examples of quality vocational learning and career education programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students. With a focus on features that underpin...Read More
Participants in Port Lincoln High School’s highly successful Aboriginal Art program have had their work selected to be a part of the upcoming“Our Young Mob” exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre. This is the seventh year in a row that our students have been chosen for this prestigious annual showcase of South Australian Indigenous art....Read More
PLHS regrets to report that our new welcome garden (adjacent to Park Terrace) was vandalised on the evening of Friday July 27th – this is the second time that this has occurred in a week. We thank those community members who contacted school staff to inform us – we are aware of the damage and will...Read More
PLHS has welcomed three new staff members for Term 3. Mr Tristan Rowsell (left) and Ms Mikaela Sawyer (centre) will teach a range of Maths and Science classes, whilst Mrs Leonie Woods (right) will take a variety of subjects including HPE, Food Tech, HASS and Special Class. We thank these people for joining us...Read More
During the second week of the recent school holidays, two PLHS Year 8 students – Zoe Proude and Reef Borlase – participated in the National Youth Science Forum’s STEM Explorer program. The event, which focussed on exploring careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), saw over a hundred students invited from around the...Read More
During the July school holidays, Room 23 students Darcy Redding, Caleb Henderson and I joined our mainstream peers on the annual PLHS Ski Trip to Mt. Hotham. An early start on Sunday saw us depart Adelaide at 6:30am, but our weary eyes soon brightened as we boarded the bus and made the five-hour journey to...Read More
Fast Food Advertisements Last term, my Year 9 English class were challenged to create their own fast food advertisements. The students chose to study companies such as Zambrero, The Original Pancake Kitchen, Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks and Subway, and even made their own such as “AZ’s Burgers” and “Jay & Sam Milkshakes – Drink It Like...Read More
