Killara High School

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Learning across the curriculum

Cross curriculum content enriches and supports the learning areas and adds depth to student learning.

Curriculum at Killara High School

Killara High School provides an exceptionally broad curriculum across all Key Learning Areas, and a range of extra-curricular activities . These include leadership groups, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, a Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Program, and clubs ranging from coding to chess to knitting.

Apollo: In Year 10, all students complete the Apollo course. 

For details on all these opportunities please download the Curriculum Enrichment Booklet.

In NSW students study a range of learning across the curriculum content.

Cross curriculum priorities

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures 
  • Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia 
  • sustainability

General capabilities

  • critical and creative thinking 
  • ethical understanding 
  • information and communication technology capability 
  • intercultural understanding 
  • literacy 
  • numeracy 
  • personal and social capability

Other learning across the curriculum areas

  • civics and citizenship
  • difference and diversity
  • work and enterprise.

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