學(xué)校介紹

Murray Bridge High School caters for a diversity of students.

Murray Bridge High School, a regio nal State High School, offers pathways to cater for all students: Academic, Vocatio nal and Regio nal Special Education. It has Internatio nal programs including Rotary, Germany and New Zealand exchanges, fee paying Internatio nal students and an Internatio nal Short Term Visit program with DECS and Funabashi Municipal High School, Tokyo, Japan.

The academic program is diverse enabling specialisation in Arts, Performing Arts, Sciences and Information Technologies. Students entering in Year 8 may accelerate their studies. The Internatio nal Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme provides the f ramework for the Middle School. In Senior School students undertake subjects across traditio nal year levels. Students undertake the new SACE (The South Australian Certificate of Education).

The vocatio nal program offers individual pathways for students in areas as diverse as Agriculture, Automotive, Electrotechnology, Polymer Processing, Food and Hospitality, Tourism, Nursing and Aged and Child Care. Murray Bridge High School is the lead school of the Lower Murray Trade Training Centre and the Murraylands Trade School for the Future sharing an alliance with other regio nal public seco ndary schools in the delivery of VET curriculum.

The Internatio nal Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme works cooperatively across a cluster of schools: Murray Bridge High School, Murray Bridge North Primary School, Mypolo nga Primary School, Tailem Bend Primary School, and Jervois Primary School.

Murray Bridge High School, while having mainly rural ‘Australian’ students, also has an increasing diversity of student backgrounds. We have a very strong Aboriginal community, with Murray Bridge High School teaching Ngarrindjeri, the local Indigenous language. We also offer German, reflecting the background and history of our community. Chinese was introduced in 1998. We have many newly arriving Chinese students in Regio nal Skilled Migration Programs and diverse Muslim people including Afghan and Lebanese. Sudanese and Congolese, in Humanitarian Refugee Programs, are new arrivals.

Murray Bridge High School has a very strong community and enviro nmental orientation centred on its location along the River Murray. The Internatio nal Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme is enabling our students and school community to ‘think internationally’ and be open to our changing world.

Being o nly 80 km from Adelaide and 40 minutes by freeway, Murray Bridge has the advantages of both country and city.