Julie Lindstedt - Warnbro Community High School

Warnbro Community High School is a community-focused school, fostering a cooperative and supportive workplace by providing an inclusive and responsive learning environment. The school prides itself in serving the area with programs that deliver quality education, facilities that are shared with the community and operational structures that allow parent and community involvement.

The enrolment of approximately 1,300 students is divided into two schools providing appropriate curriculum and specialist programs to meet the stages of learning development. Middle School (Years 8 and 9) caters for the needs of the adolescent and focuses on teaching broad skills and processes while Senior School (Years 10, 11 and 12) focuses on the needs of the young adult and is where students begin to select course pathways, gain work experience and take special programs in the preparation for life after school.

The school motto "I am because we are" epitomises the concept that the individual cannot exist without the community they live within. Each are inter-dependent on the other. To become a complete person there must be a recognition that the community is essential to the shaping of the person and the community is dependent on the growth of the people they encourage.

Warnbro Community High School has a long history of involvement in environmental initiatives. It was the only Australian school involved in the 21st Century Schoolhouse, a virtual schoolhouse where students from around the world researched environmental issues in their own country and communicated about them via the internet and took part in hands-on action research based around their local community. Students also took part in a summit every two years to meet face-to-face and debate issues which they had studied, drawing up a World Charter that was presented to all the countries involved (including Argentina, Palestine, Japan, USA, Kyrgyzstan and China).

Warnbro Community High School commenced an Approved Specialist Program in Adventure Recreation at the start of 2009. This program brings together students from anywhere in the state with a passion for outdoor pursuits, local environmental initiatives and ecotourism.

Another very active group which functions within WCHS are the CALM Bushranger Cadets which are involved in a number of environmental initiatives in the community including tree planting within local rehabilitation bushland areas including the Baldivis Children’s Forest.