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Albany Senior High School, Auckland

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Coordinates: 36°44′55″S 174°41′30″E / 36.7487°S 174.6917°E / -36.7487; 174.6917
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Albany Senior High School
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536 Albany Highway, Albany, Auckland
Coordinates36°44′55″S 174°41′30″E / 36.7487°S 174.6917°E / -36.7487; 174.6917
Information
TypeState coed secondary, years 11-13
MottoNone
Established2009
Ministry of Education Institution no.563
PrincipalMs Barbara Cavanagh
School roll434
Socio-economic decile10
Websitehttp://www.ashs.school.nz/
Exterior of main building

Albany Senior High School (known as ASHS) is situated in North Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand.

Opened in February 2009[1], it is New Zealand's first state senior high school.

Location

A learning common

The school is located at 536, Albany Highway, North Shore City, New Zealand. Before its construction, there were protracted disputes about the siting of the school[2][3] which delayed the process, so that the school initially ran from the site of Albany Junior High School[4], Appleby Road, Albany, North Shore City, New Zealand.

Uniform

Albany Senior High has variety in its uniform, allowing a level of student choice. Students can choose from: a green polo; white t-shirt; red t-shirt and a white shirt. They also have the option of pants or a skirt for girls and shorts and pants for the boys. [5]

Classes

All classes except those which require other resources take place in large open plan areas called 'Learning Commons'. These spaces enable flexibility when planning and delivering classes, including the ability to combine two classes into one for some activities, combining similar curriculum areas, such as physics and mathematics and easy access to technology. The teaching periods are 100 minutes long, twice the length of typical periods in New Zealand.

Every Wednesday, students engage in a 'community based' Impact project. This involves performing an act for the community. Impact projects completed include forming a business, organising and performing a 'School of Rock' concert[6], building a video server and digital signage solution for the school[7], restoring local waterways[8], designing, building and programming a robot for the Robocup competition and creating original artworks for the school. [9]

Open source

The school uses open source software. [10][11] and won an award for the 'Best Open Source Project in Education'<ref>[1] at the New Zealand Open Source Awards 2010.

See also

Albany Junior High School

References

  1. ^ New school and attitude...
  2. ^ School site wrangle heads to Environment Court
  3. ^ Ministry to look into Albany school delays
  4. ^ $7m cost of temporary campus at Albany Senior High
  5. ^ http://ashs.school.nz/community-information/uniform/
  6. ^ http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/2579914/albany-senior-high-is-always-rockin-on-a-tuesday
  7. ^ http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/2862401/School-notices-are-high-tech
  8. ^ http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/3776827/Local-students-and-council-join-to-save-eels
  9. ^ Impact Project
  10. ^ Students open to new source of knowledge
  11. ^ Welcome to our machines
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