Enrichment activities

Aerobics

• Teams and Individual Events
• State and National Competitions.

Art and Design

• HSC Visual Arts Exhibition
• Hornsby Girls High School Art Exhibition
• Additional activities may include:
  • ceramics
  • digital photography
  • drawing
  • oil painting
  • realistic painting
• School Magazine - Minerva
• GAT Workshops.

Building Strength

Year 11 Positive Education Program.

Business Studies

• Business Educators Australasia “Plan Your Own Enterprise” Competition
• University of Newcastle Year 11 Business Plan Challenge
• UBS Women in Leadership Program.

Cafe Gratitude

Barista training and operation of school cafe.

Camps in Years 7, 9 and 11.

Leadership camps for SRC.

Coding Club

Charity Fundraising may include:

• Anglicare “Toys ‘n Tucker” Christmas appeal
• Cancer Council
• Guide Dog Association
• Hornsby Women’s Shelter
• Indigenous Literacy Foundation
• Jeans for Genes Day
• Jump Rope for Heart
• Legacy Badge Day
• MS Readathon
• National Heart Foundation Valentine’s Day Appeal
• Pink Ribbon Day – Breast Cancer Research
• Purple Ribbon Campaign Unifem
• Red Cross Blood Donor Appeal
• Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal
• Stewart House
• UN Women
• World’s Greatest Shave – Leukaemia Foundation
• 40 Hour Famine – World Vision.

Chess Club

• Inter-School Competitions
• Outdoor chess board in COLA Area.

Commerce

• Australian Securities Exchange Competition
• Commonwealth Bank Financial Literacy Program
• The Australian Parliament 'My First Speech' Competition
• UN Youth Negotiations Competition
• Young Lawyers – guest Speaker Program
• Year 9 Running a Business Market Day
• Year 10 Police and Justice Museum Excursion
• Year 10 NSW Parliament Visit.

Dance

• Regional and State Festivals
• Talented Dance Ensembles – Three dance groups
• Various Eisteddfods.

Debating

• Premier’s Debating Challenge - Years 7-12
• Social Debating Years 7 and 8
• Year 11 Metro Debating Competition
• Also see PUBLIC SPEAKING.

Digital Leadership – Years 9 and 10.

Drama

• After-School Drama Enrichment Classes
• Hornsby Girls High School Student Performance Evenings
• Junior and Senior State Drama Ensembles
• Regional and State Drama Festivals
• School Musical – alternate years (with Normanhurst BHS).

Driver Education Program

• Year 11 RYDA Driver Education Program.

Duke of Edinburgh Award

• Bronze, Silver and Gold Levels.

English

• Dorothea MacKellar Poetry Competition
• Hornsby Girls High School Writing Competition – sponsored by the HGHS Old Girls' Union
• Publication of Burning Bright – student writing magazine
• Writing Competitions advertised through the Year:
  • Guringai Festival Reconciliation Writing Competition
  • What Matters Writing Competition
  • Write Now! Competition
• Also see DEBATING, DRAMA and PUBLIC SPEAKING.

Enterprise Challenge

Year 10 Illuminate Enterprise Challenge

Environment

• FRED (Friends of Recycling, the Environment and Dirt) Student-initiated and student-managed environmental group
  • Clean Up Australia Day activities
  • Earth Hour
  • Paper Recycling Program across the school
  • Plant-A-Tree Day
  • Recycling of soft plastic
  • Students participating in P&C Grounds Days.
• SEMP (School Environmental Management Plan) Committee.

Excursions and other visits - in most Faculties.

Geography

• Australian Geography Competition
• Fieldwork to numerous sites including Barangaroo and the Great Barrier Reef
• Observatory Hill Environmental Centre Fieldwork Day.

Grit Factor

Year 12 Positive Education Program.

Harmony Day

Intercultural understanding and co-operation.

Highlite - Christian Fellowship Group

History

• HSC Extension History Prize
• National History Challenge
• NSW National Trust Heritage Competition
• Simpson History Prize
• Year 10 Vietnam Day
• Year 8 Medieval Day
• Rocks Site Study.

Languages

(French, German, Japanese, Spanish)

• Education Perfect World Championships.

Library

• Book reviews for Oliver Library Management System
• Library Monitors
• Premier’s Reading Challenge
• Visiting authors as guest speakers
• Year 7 Book Club
• Year 8 Book Club
• Years 9/10 Book Club.

Leadership - Within the School:

• Prefect System - portfolio structure

Travel Prefects - for assistance travelling to/from school

• Student Representative Council (SRC)
• SWL (Year 10 Student Wellbeing Leaders)
• House System
  • House Captains
  • House Sports Captains and Vice Captains
  • House Music Captains and Vice Captains
• Peer Support Program – Student leadership in Year 6-7 Transition Program and whole school Wellbeing Program
• Year group Charity Fundraising Activities
• Duke of Edinburgh Award
• Work Experience (Year 10)
• Games Day Leaders
• Year 12 Masterclasses
• School Ambassadors - school tour guides
• HGHS Social Justice Group
• School Annual Magazine - Minerva
• House Choir Competition
• Lip-sync - Student Charity Concert
• Year 12 Jersey Committee.

External Leadership Opportunities

• Australian Youth Development Student Leadership conference
• Director-General’s Award for Excellence in Student Achievement

• Future Leaders Conference - Halogen
• International Women’s Day Functions
• Long Tan Awards for Leadership and Teamwork
• Minister’s Award for Excellence in Student Achievement
• Model United Nations Assembly - Rotary
• National Young Leaders Day
• Student Leadership Program for School Captains/Vice Captains - NSW Government
• Student Representative Council - District/Regional/State Levels
• UBS Finance Academy - Macquarie University
• UBS Young Women’s Leadership Academy - Sydney University
• United Nations Youth Association State Conference
• Women’s Student Leadership Seminars - Women’s College, Sydney University
• Young Achievement Australia Business Skills Program
• Young Australian of the Year
• Young Women’s Leadership Seminar - NSW Parliament House
• Youth of the Year Quest - Hornsby Lions Club
• Youth Parliament - NSW YMCA
• Zonta Young Women in Public Affairs Award.

Mathematics

• Australasian Problem Solving Mathematical Olympiad (APSMO)
• Australian Mathematics Competition
• Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians – Challenge and Enrichment Problems.

Minerva Magazine

Annual School Magazine.

Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA)

Mock Trial

NSW Law Society Mock Trial Competition.

Music

• Beginner Band
• Chamber Ensembles
• Choirs – Year 7, Junior, Senior and Chorale
• Guitar Ensemble
• House Choir
• Jazz Band
• NSW Schools Spectacular
• Orchestras - String, Symphony and Minerva
• Percussion Ensemble
• Regional and International Music Tours
• School Musical – alternate years (with Normanhurst BHS)

• State Music Camps - Junior & Senior
  
• State Schools Instrumental and Vocal Ensembles
• Student Performance Evenings
• Sydney Eisteddfod
• Wind Bands - Concert and Symphonic

Peer Support Positive Education Program Transition to High School Program for Year 7 - led by Year 10 Student Leaders, delivering Wellbeing Programs through SWL-Being activities.

Peer Tutoring

Public Speaking

• English Plain Speaking Award
• Legacy Junior Public Speaking Competition
• Rostrum Voice of Youth Competition
• UN Youth Evatt Public Speaking Competition.

Raise Mentoring Program

Running Club

Science

• Australian Science Olympiad – Biology, Chemistry and Physics
• FIRST Lego League Robotics
• FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics
• National Youth Science Forum
• RACI Chemistry Quiz
• RACI Titration Competition
• Science & Engineering Challenge (Year 10)
• UNSW ICAS Science Competition.

Sister-School Relationship – Shukutoku Yono, Japan.

Social Justice Group

• Birth Kit Foundation fundraiser
• High Tea for Hamlin
• Immediate disaster relief fundraising
• International Women's Day Breakfast
• Support the Girls fundraiser
• Uplift Bra Program
• World Vision 40 hour famine.

Spirit Week

Last week of Term 2, School Spirit activities organised by the SRC.

Sport

• Year 7 & Year 8 Games Days
• Entry to Zone/Regional/State/National Competitions as appropriate
• Tournaments - many of the teams have specialist external coaches:
  • Aerobics, Athletics
  • Badminton, Basketball
  • Cricket, Cross Country
  • Fencing
  • Netball
  • Oz Tag
  • Rowing
  • Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Swimming
  • Tennis, Touch Football, Table Tennis
  • Volleyball.

Extra-curricular Sport - seasonal:

• Aerobics, Athletics Training
• Basketball
• Cricket, Cross Country Training
• Dance, Football, Netball
• Oz Tag, Soccer
• Table Tennis Club, Taekwondo,
• Tennis, Touch, Volleyball,
• Water Polo, Yoga.
• Senior Fitness Room – training and registration required.

SWL-Being

Positive Education Program lead by Year 10 Student Wellbeing Leaders incorporating mindfulness and other elements of positive psychology.

Technology and Applied Studies (TAS)

• McCormick Flavour Challenge National Food Technology competition Stage 5
• Wool 4 Schools National Textiles and Design Competition Stage 5.

Tournament of Minds

Year 12 Subject Masterclasses

In preparation for HSC Examinations top ranking students in each subject

offer advice, address key concepts and answer questions in student-led afternoon sessions.

Youth Mental Health Aware Program