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- Applications for Years 8-11 entry to Hornsby Girls High School in 2025 will be available from Friday 21 June 2024.
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Applications for Years 8-11 entry to Hornsby Girls High School in 2025 open on Friday 21 June 2024. The closing date for applications is Friday 26 July 2024. We do not accept late applications.
- Higher Ability Selection Test (HAST) - Hornsby Girls' High School
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- Higher Ability Selection Test (HAST) - Hornsby Girls' High School
Jun 21, 2024 · Applications for Years 8-11 entry to Hornsby Girls High School in 2025 will be available from Friday 21 June 2024. The closing date for applications is Friday 26 July 2024. The Higher Ability Selection Test (HAST) is being held on Saturday 3 August 2024.
- Edgeworth David Avenue Hornsby, NSW 2077
- hornsbygir-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au
- (02) 9476 5711
Application information. If you wish to apply for your child to enter a selective high school starting in Years 8 to 12, please complete the application form on the Selective high schools – Years 8 to 12 applications website. You can apply for up to 3 schools. Use a separate application form for each school and send it directly to the school.
Hornsby Girls High School. Our Year 5 Open Day is being held on Monday 14 October 2024. The program starts at 9 am and concludes at 11 am. For further information please see the attached flyer.
- Edgeworth David Avenue Hornsby, NSW 2077
- What Are Selective High Schools?
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- How Are Placement Decisions Made?
- How Should I Choose Which Selective Schools to Apply for?
- What Is The Selective School Selection Process?
- Performance Report
- What Is The Selective High School Placement Test like?
- How Can I Prepare My Child For The Selective Test?
Selective high schools cater for academically gifted students with high potential who may otherwise be without sufficient classmates of their own academic standard. Selective high schools help these students to learn by grouping them with students of similar ability, using specialised teaching methods and materials. Selective high schools are unzon...
There are 4 types of selective high schools: 1. 17 fullyselective high schoolswhere all classes are academically selective. 2. 4 agricultural high schools which are fully selective and have a special focus on agriculture. 3. 25 partially selective high schoolsin NSW where one or two classes are selective while other classes are non-selective for lo...
Giftedness
Selective Schools are designed to provide enhanced learning opportunities for high potential and gifted students, i.e. those with very high to extremely high academic merit (in the top 9% of their cohort).
Eligibility for Year 7 Selective Entry
Students applying to enter Year 7 in 2026 should be in Year 5 in 2024, and in Year 6 when they sit the placement test in 2025. If the child is outside the usual age range or is in a school year other than Year 5 when applying, parents should explain the reasons. Selection committees may ask for further information when considering the application. Students already in Year 7 at the time of the test can be considered for placement in Year 7 the following year only if there are extenuating circu...
Eligibility for Year 8-12 Selective Entry
Available places in Years 8 to 12 depend on the number of students who have left the school. Each school is different, some may have no vacancies in some years of schooling, some create reserve lists in case of future vacancies, and others may establish additional places in some years. Contact individual selective high schools for further information about availability. 1. Students cannot automatically transfer between selective high schools. If a student wishes to change from one selective h...
There are currently 17 fully selective high schools, 27 high schools with selective classes (partially selective), 4 agricultural high schools and a virtual selective class provision offering selective placement in Year 7 for entry in 2026. Note: + Alexandria Park CS, Tempe HS and Rose Bay Secondary College have targeted places available for Aborig...
Students are ranked in order of academic merit based on their performance in the placement test. Students are placed according to their academic merit to fill the number of vacancies at each school. For some applicants, other evidence of academic merit may be used in the placement process. For example, interstate and overseas applicants who are not...
Applicants can choose up to three selective high schools and must list these in order of preference. Where students qualify for entry to two or three schools they will get an offer only to the highest listed school for which they qualify. Therefore it is important to list the preferred school at the top. A student can qualify for an offer to choice...
Students are ranked in order of academic merit based on their performance in the placement test. Students are placed according to their academic merit to fill the number of vacancies at each school. To promote fair and equitable access for all high potential and gifted students, the Equity Placement Model helps to address unintended barriers to ent...
The Performance report shows how your child performed in comparison to the other students who took the test that year. For each of the test components, the report shows where your child performed in one of four bands: 1. top 10% of candidates 2. next 15% of candidates 3. next 25% of candidates 4. lowest 50% of candidates Download a Performance repo...
A new Selective High School Placement Test was developed for 2021. Students are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the sample test ahead of the next Selective High School Placement Test. The test has a greater emphasis on thinking skills, mathematical reasoning and problem-solving. It also adjusts and balances the weighting given to mathemat...
It’s never too early to start thinking about boosting your child’s academic journey, and it’s never too late to make a difference by supplementing their education with external coaching. That said, it’s generally more effective to work consistently over a longer period of time than (just) to prepare intensively in the lead-up to examinations. If yo...
Hornsby Girls' High School is a government-funded single-sex academically selective secondary day school for girls, located in Hornsby, a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Sense of belonging and inclusion is important for strong attendance of HPGE students. Evidence based programs developed from CESE's 'Understanding Attendance' Review (2022) and the DoE's Attendance Matters Policy underpins our management of attendance.
