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Learn MoreKatanning Senior High School serves a multicultural and linguistically diverse community including Afghani, African, Burmese, Chinese, Karen, Malay, Maori, Noongar and Thai. We celebrate and respect individual differences and work in harmony to ensure success for all students. We are the senior high school of choice for the great southern region.
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Engaged Learning
At our school, your child will have the opportunity to engage in a challenging and comprehensive educational program within a caring and nurturing school.
Individual Approach
Your child’s individual academic and social needs will be met within a school that values achievement, respect, tolerance, and perseverance. Our professional and experienced teachers are committed to ensuring that all students strive to excel.
Community Partnerships
At Katanning Senior High School, the success of our students is demonstrated by direct entry into university, apprenticeships, traineeships or employment. Graduates from Katanning Senior High School achieve in many different areas including business, academia, trades, teaching and human services.
Rise to the challenge with Bush Ranger Cadets
The mission of the Bush Ranger Cadet program is to support young Western Australians to take an active and lead role in the conservation of the natural environment and to understand the mechanisms for its management.
Developing creativity and critical thinking through STEM
Lower school students have one lesson a week in the STEM room where they develop their capabilities in critical and creative thinking as they learn to: generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives, and solve problems.
Get a head start with vocational pathways
With the Great Southern Trade Training Centre on site, KSHS Students get an early start towards a Vocational Pathway in the Automotive and Engineering Industries if they choose to. The facilities include vehicle hoists, CNC Plasma cutter, CNC Lathes, and Miling Machines, Hydraulic guillotine and Pan brake and a host of Welding Technologies.
Follow the dream
Katanning Senior High School offers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students the opportunity to participate in the Follow the Dream: Partnerships for Success program (FTD).
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🌸📸 Bloom Festival Photography Competition 2026 📸🌸
The Shire of Broomehill-Tambellup is inviting students, staff, and community members to enter the "Bloom Where We Live" photography competition!
Capture the beauty of our region, from wildflowers and landscapes to farms, local landmarks, and everyday community moments.
📅 Entries open: 1 September 2026
📅 Entries close: 30 September 2026, 5.00pm AWST
🏆 Under 18 and Adult categories
✅ Free to enter
Show us what makes our community special! 🌼
Students have been making the most of valuable workplace learning opportunities across a wide range of industries and business types. For some, these experiences have helped confirm their career choices, while for others they have provided a chance to continue exploring future pathways. Several students also undertook placements as part of their School Based Traineeships or to meet the practical requirements of their TAFE Certificate studies.
#WorkplaceLearning #CareerExploration #SchoolBasedTraineeships #VETinSchools #FutureReady #HandsOnLearning #CareerPathways #SouthRegionalTAFE #katanningshs
Our PBS Store was open on Monday, and students enjoyed using their well earned PBS points on a range of fidgets, toys, sports equipment and sweet treats! A huge thank you to our amazing student leaders and staff who helped serve and sell items, and to our wonderful staff who baked the delicious treats. Your support helps make our PBS rewards program such a success!
-KSHS PBS Committee
🥣 Wednesday Winter Warmers at the Canteen! 🥣
Mrs Gibson, our School Chaplain, has organised Wednesday's Winter Warmer Lunch for students.
📅 Wednesday, 19 August
🕛 Lunch Time
📍 School Canteen
💲 $2.00 (Cash Only)
On the Menu
🎃 Pumpkin Soup served with 🧄 Garlic Bread
Warm up with a hearty homemade soup on a cold winter's day!
We look forward to seeing students at the canteen for a warm and tasty lunch.
Prepared and organised by Mrs Gibson, School Chaplain. 😊
Ingredients:
Pumpkin, onion, sweet potato, carrot, potato, garlic, ginger, condensed milk, chicken stock, cream, and green Thai curry paste
🌿 Celebrating NAIDOC Week in Home Economics! 🖤💛❤️
As everyone knows, our school is proudly celebrating NAIDOC Week, and the Home Economics Department has been very busy creating a wonderful range of Indigenous-inspired foods, textiles and craft activities.
Our students have embraced the opportunity to learn about and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture through creativity, cooking and hands-on experiences.
🌿 Year 7 Food enjoyed making delicious Cinnamon Myrtle & Macadamia Nuts Damper Scones.
🍪 Year 9 Food demonstrated outstanding baking skills while creating beautiful Indigenous Australian flag cookies.
🐢 Year 9 Textiles were busy creating adorable tricolour beads turtles, fish and lizards, as well as little stationery pouches using Indigenous-inspired fabrics.
🍋 Year 10 Food are exploring Indigenous flavours while making delicious Lemon Myrtle Biscuits.
🧵 Year 10 Textiles have been developing their embroidery skills by creating Aboriginal-inspired designs on tote bags.
🧁 Year 11 Food Science enjoyed a baking challenge and proudly created delicious muffins decorated with Indigenous Australian flag-inspired icing.
🍉 Year 12 Food Science & Technology explored unique native flavours by making River Mint Sorbet and Geraldton Wax Granita with watermelon.
🍪 last but not list our lovely group of Children Family & the Community students also enjoyed making and tasting delicious Wattle Seed & Macadamia Cookies.
It has been wonderful to see our students learning, creating, cooking and celebrating culture through Home Economics. 💛
I also enhanced my culinary skills in making Kangaroo Curry first time in life for tomorrows whole school lunch.
A huge thank you to our amazing students and staff for making NAIDOC Week such a special and creative celebration! 🌿🖤💛❤️
Mrs Malik
TIC Home Economics
#katanningshs #NAIDOCWeek
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Thoes sunrise cookies look like a tempter! All well done keep up the good work. Chefs and chefetts BLESSED!
Always going above and beyond Mrs Malik. Outstanding work!
Year 12 Interview Skills Workshop 👔
Today, our Year 12 English students participated in an Interview Skills Workshop facilitated by Jake from ATC Work Smart.
As part of their Careers Units, students are preparing for an in-person interview and a video job application assessment. They learned how to prepare for interviews, structure responses using the SAO (Situation, Action, Outcome) format, and present themselves professionally. Students then put these skills into practice through role-playing activities, taking turns as interviewers and interviewees.
The workshop was a valuable opportunity to build confidence and develop skills that will support students in their assessments and future employment pathways.
Thank you to Mrs King (Careers Coordinator) and Jake for making this opportunity possible, and well done to our Year 12s for their fantastic participation and engagement throughout the session.
Ms English & Ms Lavan
📣 Two exciting mathematics opportunities are now open for 2027!
Katanning Senior High School students who enjoy mathematical challenges and exploring mathematics beyond the classroom are encouraged to consider these programs.
🧩 MAWA PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM
This program is designed for mathematically capable students aged 10–15, although highly able younger students may also apply. Classes are available both face-to-face and live online, making the program accessible to regional students.
Information and application documents:
mawainc.org.au/mawapsp/
🎓 NATIONAL MATHEMATICS SUMMER SCHOOL
This two-week residential program is open to students currently in Year 11. It will be held at the Australian National University in Canberra from 10–23 January 2027.
Up to seven students will be selected from Western Australia.
Applications close Friday 28 August 2026.
Further information:
mawainc.org.au/nmss/
Apply:
nmss.edu.au/applicationform/
Interested students should speak with their Mathematics teacher or the Head of Learning Area – Mathematics as soon as possible, particularly if supporting information from the school is required.
#katanningshs #mathematics #StudentOpportunities
🔥 Winter Warmer Special: Nachos 🔥
💲 $5 per serve
💵 Cash only
Our yummy nachos will be prepared by our School Chaplain and her wonderful helpers 👏😊
📅 Wednesday 12 August
📍 School Canteen
💵 $5 Cash Only
⚠️ Ingredients: Beef mince, tomato paste, taco seasoning, brown onions, carrot, coriander, salt, pepper, lettuce, Doritos corn chips, and sour cream.
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🏰⚔️ Year 8.1 HASS Takes on Medieval Siege Warfare! ⚔️🏰
Our collaborative learning period in Year 8.1 HASS challenged students to become medieval castle designers! Using plasticine, pipe cleaners and pom poms, each team could select two special building materials from a range including cardboard, egg cartons, pop sticks, paper bowls and bubble wrap to construct a castle capable of withstanding siege warfare.
This hands-on activity put students' knowledge of medieval history to the test, with teams incorporating key castle features we have been exploring this term, including moats, battlements, working drawbridges and arrow slits. One impressive group even created a highly detailed portcullis!
After a frantic building phase, it was time for the ultimate challenge: facing Ms Tonga's formidable siege weapons. Castles were tested against siege ladders, pelted by a trebuchet and, if they survived, subjected to the power of a pencil battering ram. One creative team surprised everyone by revealing a hidden second castle, demonstrating an excellent understanding of concentric castle design!
All teams did an outstanding job explaining and defending their fortification choices. There were some valuable lessons learned too, with one group admitting that wooden walls may not have been the wisest choice during a medieval siege! 😊
Well done to all our budding castle architects and defe🏰⚔️ Yet🏰⚔️ Year 8.1 HASS Taka🏰⚔️ Year v🏰⚔️ Year 8.1 HAve🏰⚔️ Year r#FutureThinkersreThinkers 🏰⚔️📚
What fun!😃
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we live and work, the Goreng Noongar peoples and their Elders, past present and emerging.
(08) 9891 1100
katanning.shs@education.wa.edu.au