Burnie High School

General information

Burnie High School is a caring, supportive and innovative learning environment that allows its students to achieve success and be their very best, enabling them to become active citizens of the 21st century. A major redevelopment to school facilities in 2010/11 has resulted in a new student café, state of the art performing arts facilities, new catering facilities, and new classroom accommodation for students in years 9 and 10. Burnie High School’s values based expectations is reflected in the motto, Best Effort, Honest and Fair and Safe and Secure. The school currently caters for a student population of 506 students. It offers a wide variety of learning experiences for students including traditional academic programs, a range of highly regarded alternative learning programs and extensive extracurricular activities. Extracurricular activities include MDT and Textiles master classes, Gallery 58, sporting teams, drama and musical groups and a biennial musical production. In recent years the school has gained a reputation for innovation in the delivery of alternative learning programs including the Traineeship and Apprenticeship Program (TAPP), Newstart, Trade-Up, Farm Enterprise and Happy Room. Additionally, the whole school literacy program THRIVE (Think, Hear, Read, Imagine, View and Explore) provides three time slots per week when all students have an intensive literacy focus.