Welcome to Liverpool Girls High School
Liverpool Girls' High School enjoys a fine reputation in the local community. A varied curriculum offers diverse learning opportunities. Quality learning for students is emphasised through the refinement of best practice in classroom teaching, the integration of effective teaching through technology, the incorporation of quality learning through community partnerships and the development of the best possible teaching programs to reflect syllabus requirements. The school has enjoyed the success of many quality awards including the Director General's Award for Vocational Education. As a learning environment that sets high standards, we seek to provide each girl with the skills and understandings that will enable her to achieve her potential and fulfil her role as an independent member of the community.
Values Platform
Throughout 2017 Liverpool Girls High School has been reviewing the values that underpin positive student behaviour. Our new Respect, Excellence, Attitude, Cooperation and Honesty (REACH) code makes our expectations explicit to ensure that Liverpool Girls High School is a positive learning community focused on students who strive to succeed.
A positive approach to learning with clear expectations will provide clear guidelines for the school community. Through having clearly articulated expectations, students are able to engage more in their learning in positive ways, gaining success and thriving in a school that has clear purpose and direction.
Our vision
At Liverpool Girls High School we co-create high quality learning that empowers young women to thrive and succeed within an inclusive and supportive global community.
Our aims
Students have varied opportunities to engage in future ready learning programs that builds their skills in collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, citizenship and communication so that they have a love of learning, self-knowledge, a people sense, worldliness, comfort with complexity, the ability to set goals and open minds that consider many possibilities.
Students are inspired to be life-long learners with a passion for learning through active engagement with the wider community.
Teachers are well trained professionals who encourage high expectations providing high quality innovative and differentiated learning ensuring students are future ready.
The wider community works in partnership with the school to provide quality learning opportunities for all students in varied and responsive ways.
The school celebrates and promotes the diversity of an inclusive community where all belong.
Our core values
Our beliefs
We believe:
in providing quality teaching and learning programs that personalise the curriculum to meet individual abilities and learning needs
in giving opportunities for involvement, participation, collaboration and co-operation in order to facilitate excellence
that all students and staff have the right to further their educational experience through co-curricular and professional activities
everyone has the right to be provided with leadership opportunities and mentoring roles
every student can succeed.
Our values
We value:
- honesty and integrity
- a passion for personal growth and life-long learning
- respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation of each other's culture, ethnicity, age, gender, sexuality, religion, beliefs and ability
- a sense of belonging by being an integral part of the school and wider community
- creating and maintaining a safe and purposeful learning environment
- being environmentally aware
- personal and collective achievement, encouraging everyone to achieve their personal best.
Our expectations
We expect the school community to:
- actively embrace the learning opportunities provided through the school curriculum, co-curricular and professional learning activities
- demonstrate commitment to learning and achieve personal best, striving to become critical thinkers and independent learners
- responsibly engage in digital literacy and be responsible digital users
- take pride in and maintain the safety of the learning environment
- demonstrate active citizenship within the school, local and wider community
- take responsibility for individual learning behaviours, actions and resulting consequences
- respect and accept diversity and differences.
Our commitment
We are committed to:
- providing excellence in Girls' Education with a focus on individual needs
- providing staff with the opportunity to demonstrate and enhance their expertise as models of lifelong learning
- an environment for the school community that is safe, fair and focused
- encouraging and rewarding personal achievements
- being an active and responsive learning community.