The Ponds High School

Inspired Learning

Telephone02 9626 3562

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

Learning across the curriculum

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

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.

© NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2012

High Potential & Gifted Education Student Programs

If you are wanting your child to sit our High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) examination and submit an application of consideration for a HPGE placement, please download, complete and return the following form to the school office.

Please note we will only be offering places to students that live within our catchment area. If you currently live outside our catchment area but are moving in the area, proof of address is required before a place can be offered. 

For more information, please contact our Enrolment Office.

Enrolment Officer: Ms Joy Reid

p: +61 2 9626 3562

e: theponds-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au