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We are Hampton

Hampton Senior High School has a proud tradition in our local community, built over 50 years, as an Independent Public School whose graduates are recognised for the strength of their character alongside the quality of their academic performance. The lure of our Gifted and Talented Dance Program and our accreditation as a Specialist School for Digital Technologies, Drama and Cheer Dance, attracts students from a wide range of schools across the State, with each adding to the diverse cultural, linguistic and aspirational nature of our school population.

What keeps the students here, helps them thrive and promotes pride in the oft-used phrase “We are Hampton” is the professional knowledge, practice and engagement of our staff who endeavour to ensure everyone has the chance to live our school vision – Aspire, Innovate, Achieve.

Multiple Pathways To Success

We have a commitment to ensure that our students have every opportunity to capitalise on their strengths to achieve success in their endeavours. Our diverse programmes readily prepare all students whether they pursue vocational, academic or specialist streams.

Beyond the Classroom

We have a commitment to ensuring that our students have access to nationwide essential systems and are well equipped to take advantage of the possibilities of new initiatives. Offering the possibility to explore real world learning that goes beyond the classroom.

Follow The Dream

Our Follow the Dream program for Aboriginal students and Cadet (Bush Rangers) program engage students in a variety of learning opportunities, providing them with activities and educational experiences to improve their engagement, performance and pride.

Preparing For The Future

We utilise digital technologies as an integral component of learning and teaching programs safely and responsibly. Thoughtful use of technology throughout the curriculum improves engagement and encourages collaboration. It allows students to prepare for the fast paced digital world by developing their confidence, communication and leadership skills.

Gifted and Talented Dance Program

Our school offers your child a variety of specialist and enrichment programs. Our Gifted and Talented Dance Program is highly regarded and is one of only two such programs in the State.

We also offer Specialist Programs in Digital Technologies, Cheer Dance and Performing Arts (Drama). We also provide school-based enrichment programs in applied science, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and an Athletics Academy.

Share In Our Journey

We are proud of our school community and the positive relationships we build to provide the base from which our academic and pastoral care initiatives achieve results. Connect with us and see how we inspire, innovate and achieve in all we do.

Hampton Senior High School

19 hours ago

As we commemorate ANZAC Day today, maybe even now watching the Collingwood v Essendon game, perhaps take the time to read one of the heartwarming stories from yesterdays service at school.
Due to the increase in student numbers, we had 7s, 11s and 12s at the ceremony and we were able to live stream the ceremony to 8s, 9s and 10s direct to their classrooms.
Taking note of the Year 7s especially at the front of the assembly, very proud to see them watch the service with such respect. Parents and families you would be very proud too.
Stories are often how we can relay what ANZAC Day is all about, especially to a younger audience. Our first story came from ex serviceman and teacher Andrew Duncan...........
The Australian Defence Force of today is made up of people from so many walks of life. People with a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, religion, political beliefs, and life experiences. Every single one of them swore an oath to serve their country, knowing that there was a possibility that service might lead to them being put in incredible danger, enduring significant discomfort and prolonged separation from friends and family. When I joined in 2009, we were barely half-way through our commitment to Afghanistan, and still had troops operating in Iraq, and on peacekeeping and reconstruction forces in Timor Leste. Everyone in my platoon during basic training signed on with the knowledge that we would likely be in one of those places within the year.
We talked a lot about why we’d joined. For some like me, it was because we were the current generation in long lines of military service in our families. Some joined because they thought it would be a great adventure, others because they felt like it would look good on a resume. For some, it was about straightening themselves out after getting into trouble as teenagers. Whatever our reasons for joining were, our biggest reasons for sticking it out very quickly became the people next to us. Regardless of our mixed backgrounds, personalities, and beliefs, we gradually became a unified team. Across my time in service, I saw so many people from groups that would normally be in conflict in wider society, put their differences and backgrounds aside because they felt that the challenges in front of us were a far more important issue than even decades of ethnic, religious, or political division.
This phenomenon is nothing new in Australia’s military, but is an extension of what has been going on since the first ANZAC troops hit the beach at Gallipoli. Back then, it was the first time that our soldiers fought as Australians, rather than soldiers of the various British colonies that became our States. Sure, the New South Welshmen still served it up to the Queenslanders, and they would in turn roast the Victorians, and then they’d all get together to stir up the Kiwis. But at the end of the day, everyone, from every state, and from both sides of the Tasman Sea, put their backgrounds aside and pushed in the same direction. Even more importantly, the Gallipoli campaign saw Australian Indigenous troops and Māori troops fighting hard for their respective nations as well.
But here’s the strange thing about all this variety… At no point in my years of service, or in the hundreds of people I served with, did I ever meet a superhero. There were no Captain Americas, no Supermen, and no Scarlet Witches. There were just normal people. Yes, they were very fit, well trained, and well equipped, but in the end they were all human. So you might well ask, “what does it take for a human to be a hero?” I can tell you, it’s not much more than a bit of willpower, a bit of personal courage, a fair bit of being in the wrong place at the right time, and a lot of determination to keep going when things get tough.
Real heroes come in all shapes and sizes, but I’d like to tell you about a few of my favourites.
Leonard Waters was a Gamilaraay man, from Nindigully in outback Queensland. After the Japanese joined the Second World War, Len joined the Royal Australian Air Force as an aircraft mechanic. He wasn’t content with staying on the ground, though, and became the first Indigenous pilot in the RAAF after ranking 4th in his class at flight school. He was transferred to a fighter squadron, flying P-40 Kittyhawks, and flew nearly 100 combat missions against Japanese targets in Indonesia and Borneo. On one of those missions, his aircraft, which he’d named Black Magic, was hit by a Japanese anti-aircraft shell that didn’t detonate, but imbedded itself right next to his fuel tank. After a very tense two hours, he managed to nurse the plane back to base, and landed it safely. He mentioned later that it was the softest landing he’d ever had.
Another of my heroes, is Nancy Wake. She was born in New Zealand, but moved to Australia and trained as a nurse. While on a holiday in France with a friend, she met the love of her life and was married in 1939. Just six months later, France was invaded by Germany, and Nancy and her husband joined the French Resistance. They worked tirelessly to assist Jewish refugees, as well Allied soldiers and airmen, to escape capture and evacuate to Spain and Britain. Nancy herself evacuated to Britain in 1940, but quickly volunteered with the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive. After further training, Nancy parachuted back into France to arm, train, and organise French Resistance fighters. She was so elusive, and her operations so damaging to the German occupation, that the German authorities referred to her as the White Mouse. When the Allies commenced their landings in Normandy in June 1944, Nancy and other operatives in the Auvergne Group were instrumental in sowing chaos behind the German lines, destroying transport and communication networks all along the Normandy coast.
But my personal hero is someone I’ve actually worked with. Yet another great New Zealander that we’ve claimed as an Aussie, Curtis McGrath was born in Queenstown, but moved to Queensland. Like me, Curtis was a Combat Engineer, and was involved in clearing mines and improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. “Kiwi’s” tour was the one immediately after mine, so while I was readjusting to life back at home, he and some of my other mates were walking the same routes I had just a few months earlier. Unfortunately, Curtis was badly injured when a hidden bomb took both his legs. As the story goes, he was cracking jokes while he was being loaded onto the evac helicopter, and saying “oh well, I guess I should try out for the Paralympics!’ Less than three months later, I was watching the welcome home parade for Curtis’ rotation, and as they’re about to march off, he steps onto the parade ground with a mate either side propping him up. He was only a few months into his rehabilitation, but once he got into position, his mates stepped aside, and he walked. He was a bit shaky, but he walked. The really mad bit is, 4 years later, he followed through on his joke, and won gold in Para-kayak at the Rio Olympics. Then he did it again in Tokyo, and right now he’s currently training to do it yet again in Paris.

He might not be a superhuman, but he is my hero.
Cr Sally Palmer - North Ward, City of Bayswater

As we commemorate ANZAC Day today, maybe even now watching the Collingwood v Essendon game, perhaps take the time to read one of the heartwarming stories from yesterday's service at school.
Due to the increase in student numbers, we had 7s, 11s and 12s at the ceremony and we were able to 'live stream' the ceremony to 8s, 9s and 10s direct to their classrooms.
Taking note of the Year 7s especially at the front of the assembly, very proud to see them watch the service with such respect. Parents and families you would be very proud too.
Stories are often how we can relay what ANZAC Day is all about, especially to a younger audience. Our first story came from ex serviceman and teacher Andrew Duncan...........
The Australian Defence Force of today is made up of people from so many walks of life. People with a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, religion, political beliefs, and life experiences. Every single one of them swore an oath to serve their country, knowing that there was a possibility that service might lead to them being put in incredible danger, enduring significant discomfort and prolonged separation from friends and family. When I joined in 2009, we were barely half-way through our commitment to Afghanistan, and still had troops operating in Iraq, and on peacekeeping and reconstruction forces in Timor Leste. Everyone in my platoon during basic training signed on with the knowledge that we would likely be in one of those places within the year.
We talked a lot about why we’d joined. For some like me, it was because we were the current generation in long lines of military service in our families. Some joined because they thought it would be a great adventure, others because they felt like it would look good on a resume. For some, it was about straightening themselves out after getting into trouble as teenagers. Whatever our reasons for joining were, our biggest reasons for sticking it out very quickly became the people next to us. Regardless of our mixed backgrounds, personalities, and beliefs, we gradually became a unified team. Across my time in service, I saw so many people from groups that would normally be in conflict in wider society, put their differences and backgrounds aside because they felt that the challenges in front of us were a far more important issue than even decades of ethnic, religious, or political division.
This phenomenon is nothing new in Australia’s military, but is an extension of what has been going on since the first ANZAC troops hit the beach at Gallipoli. Back then, it was the first time that our soldiers fought as Australians, rather than soldiers of the various British colonies that became our States. Sure, the New South Welshmen still served it up to the Queenslanders, and they would in turn roast the Victorians, and then they’d all get together to stir up the Kiwis. But at the end of the day, everyone, from every state, and from both sides of the Tasman Sea, put their backgrounds aside and pushed in the same direction. Even more importantly, the Gallipoli campaign saw Australian Indigenous troops and Māori troops fighting hard for their respective nations as well.
But here’s the strange thing about all this variety… At no point in my years of service, or in the hundreds of people I served with, did I ever meet a superhero. There were no Captain Americas, no Supermen, and no Scarlet Witches. There were just normal people. Yes, they were very fit, well trained, and well equipped, but in the end they were all human. So you might well ask, “what does it take for a human to be a hero?” I can tell you, it’s not much more than a bit of willpower, a bit of personal courage, a fair bit of being in the wrong place at the right time, and a lot of determination to keep going when things get tough.
Real heroes come in all shapes and sizes, but I’d like to tell you about a few of my favourites.
Leonard Waters was a Gamilaraay man, from Nindigully in outback Queensland. After the Japanese joined the Second World War, Len joined the Royal Australian Air Force as an aircraft mechanic. He wasn’t content with staying on the ground, though, and became the first Indigenous pilot in the RAAF after ranking 4th in his class at flight school. He was transferred to a fighter squadron, flying P-40 Kittyhawks, and flew nearly 100 combat missions against Japanese targets in Indonesia and Borneo. On one of those missions, his aircraft, which he’d named Black Magic, was hit by a Japanese anti-aircraft shell that didn’t detonate, but imbedded itself right next to his fuel tank. After a very tense two hours, he managed to nurse the plane back to base, and landed it safely. He mentioned later that it was the softest landing he’d ever had.
Another of my heroes, is Nancy Wake. She was born in New Zealand, but moved to Australia and trained as a nurse. While on a holiday in France with a friend, she met the love of her life and was married in 1939. Just six months later, France was invaded by Germany, and Nancy and her husband joined the French Resistance. They worked tirelessly to assist Jewish refugees, as well Allied soldiers and airmen, to escape capture and evacuate to Spain and Britain. Nancy herself evacuated to Britain in 1940, but quickly volunteered with the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive. After further training, Nancy parachuted back into France to arm, train, and organise French Resistance fighters. She was so elusive, and her operations so damaging to the German occupation, that the German authorities referred to her as the White Mouse. When the Allies commenced their landings in Normandy in June 1944, Nancy and other operatives in the Auvergne Group were instrumental in sowing chaos behind the German lines, destroying transport and communication networks all along the Normandy coast.
But my personal hero is someone I’ve actually worked with. Yet another great New Zealander that we’ve claimed as an Aussie, Curtis McGrath was born in Queenstown, but moved to Queensland. Like me, Curtis was a Combat Engineer, and was involved in clearing mines and improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. “Kiwi’s” tour was the one immediately after mine, so while I was readjusting to life back at home, he and some of my other mates were walking the same routes I had just a few months earlier. Unfortunately, Curtis was badly injured when a hidden bomb took both his legs. As the story goes, he was cracking jokes while he was being loaded onto the evac helicopter, and saying “oh well, I guess I should try out for the Paralympics!’ Less than three months later, I was watching the welcome home parade for Curtis’ rotation, and as they’re about to march off, he steps onto the parade ground with a mate either side propping him up. He was only a few months into his rehabilitation, but once he got into position, his mates stepped aside, and he walked. He was a bit shaky, but he walked. The really mad bit is, 4 years later, he followed through on his joke, and won gold in Para-kayak at the Rio Olympics. Then he did it again in Tokyo, and right now he’s currently training to do it yet again in Paris.

He might not be a superhuman, but he is my hero.
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Hampton Senior High School

1 week ago

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Our recycling program at Hampton SHS is steadily advancing as we enter Term 2. Students are becoming more aware of how they dispose of their trash, and the results are evident! Slowly but surely, we’re turning trash into cash. These small wins are boosting our confidence and driving us forward. Thank you to everyone for your commitment to making our school greener and supporting our Student Council initiative. Let’s keep up the momentum! ♻️🌏

#HamptonSHS #RecyclingInitiative #GreenSchool

𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝟐 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐇𝐒 🌿

Our recycling program at Hampton SHS is steadily advancing as we enter Term 2. Students are becoming more aware of how they dispose of their trash, and the results are evident! Slowly but surely, we’re turning trash into cash. These small wins are boosting our confidence and driving us forward. Thank you to everyone for your commitment to making our school greener and supporting our Student Council initiative. Let’s keep up the momentum! ♻️🌏

#HamptonSHS #RecyclingInitiative #GreenSchool ... See MoreSee Less

Hampton Senior High School

1 week ago

Join in the fun and score some goals in a friendly game of weekly Street Soccer at Galleria Shopping Centre ⚽

Join in the fun and score some goals in a friendly game of weekly Street Soccer at Galleria Shopping Centre ⚽ ... See MoreSee Less

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