Hornsby Girls High School

Excellence in Girls' Education

Telephone02 9476 5711

Emailhornsbygir-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Year 7 2025

We look forward to welcoming our new Year 7's and their families to our school community!

 

Year 7 2025 Orientation Day is being held on Tuesday 3 December 2024.

The Orientation Day Program will be emailed to all parents and carers once available.

 

The first day of school for Year 7 2025 students is Thursday 6 February 2025.

 

School Uniform

School uniforms can be purchased from School Locker either at school, online or at their ACU campus store.

This School Locker flyer provides further information, including their school holiday trading hours.

School Locker also offer a Student Advantage Program.

 

Please refer to our HGHS uniform page for further information.

 

 

Student Laptops

All students are required to bring a fully charged laptop to school every day. Families are responsible for purchasing, configuring and maintaining the laptop.

Any laptop purchased must meet the hardware requirements listed below. If you have any questions about purchasing a laptop please contact the school.

  • Must have a keyboard
  • Must not be a Chromebook
  • Cannot be a tablet of any sort including iPad
  • WIFI must support Dual Band as the school wifi is all based on 5ghz
  • Processor - minimum i5 for Windows devices
  • RAM - minimum 16 GB
  • Storage 128GB
  • Make sure the device uses SSD rather than HDD.

Laptops can either be Windows or macOS based.

Windows - version 10 or better is required to be installed.

macOS - mac OS 11 or macOS 12 are the preferred versions.

Please note that Hornsby Girls' is predominantly a Windows environment. All on premises computers are Windows based and all staff expertise is Windows based. Students that choose an Apple device need to be able to maintain and operate it without assistance from the school.

School Canteen

Our school canteen operates five days a week.

Orders can be placed online through the Flexischools app.

 

 

Student Travel - Transport NSW

Applications are now open for 2025 School Student Transport Scheme (SSTS) travel 

Students in the Opal network applying for an Opal card (including a Term Bus Pass) for the first time will receive their School Opal card at their nominated postal address from mid-January 2025.

Students progressing from Year 6 to Year 7 do not need to re-apply if they:

  • are continuing at the same school, and
  • are residing at the same address, and
  • have not been sent an expiry notification from Transport for NSW.

Where a student meets the new distance eligibility, the system will automatically update their entitlement. If they do not meet the new eligibility, they will receive an expiry notification.

Students who change address, school, campus location, have repeated a year or received an expiry notification for their school travel entitlement need to renew or update their details before the end of term 4. This will ensure that schools can endorse applications, so their travel entitlement can remain valid for the start of the 2025 school year.

 

 

Extra-Curricular Activities

There are many enrichment activities offered at our school to provide a broad range of co-curricular experiences and opportunities for our students to enrich their education.