Senior School

A Modern HSC Curriculum

The Senior School curriculum is designed to challenge, extend, and quietly humiliate every student. Subjects are offered across the standard NESA framework, with extension and accelerated pathways for those who have not yet learned to say no. A selection of recently introduced offerings:

• English Advanced (2 Unit). Module B continues to be a personality test.
• Advanced Excuse Construction (2 Unit). A practical course in the verbal arts. Pre-requisite: Year 10 Drama.
• Extension 2 Procrastination. Major work due Term 4. Most students begin in Term 3 of the following year.
• Year 12 Stress Management (Theory Only). Theoretical only.
• Mathematics Extension 1 / 2. As above, but with feeling.

A note on submission: the Senior School now formally recommends that all written assessment tasks be submitted as MP3 audio files. Submission via PDF or DOCX is permitted but, according to the relevant memo, will receive "a marginally less enthusiastic reception". See the Bulletin's coverage for the full details.

Pathways

An indicative breakdown of post-Year-12 destinations across recent cohorts:

Study Spaces

The Senior School offers a number of dedicated study environments, each designed to optimise focus, collaboration, and minor financial speculation:

• The Library. The main floor. Operates with the gentle hum of a regional casino at 3am.
• The Senior Study Hub. Hot-desk only. The kettle is the spiritual centre. Min. buy-in: one pack of Mentos.
• The Quad. Best for plays exceeding three units of Maths Ext. Bring sunscreen.
• The Chapel Annex. Quiet. Carpeted. Acoustically perfect for whispering odds.
• The Avenue. Walking and thinking. Ideal for processing a Module B essay or a recent assessment mark.
• Hornsby Westfield, Level 3. Unsanctioned. Routinely used. The Boost Juice queue does not, the school stresses, count as study leave.

Lunch & Free Periods

Senior students with permitted free periods may sign out via the Pacific Highway gate to access Hornsby's central commercial precinct, comprising one (1) Westfield, two (2) competing bubble tea operations, and a Bunnings sausage sizzle of fluctuating reliability.

Sign-out logs are reviewed weekly. Year 12 students are reminded that "I went to Bunnings" is not, on its own, an academic excuse, even when it is the only true thing they have said all term.

Wellbeing

We have a counsellor.

A Note from the Year 12 Adviser

"You are not your ATAR. Your ATAR is, however, your ATAR."