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Why should your child go to Centenary High School?

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Sallyann Griffith
Deputy Principal

Centenary State High School is a really strong academic school. We are close to The University of Queensland and we have high expectations of our students and of our teachers.

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Jack – past student 

They offer you all the foundations you need to have a really successful life after school, and also ensure that you can really enjoy your time while you are actually at school.
 
Sallyann Griffith: 

We believe all our students can be supported to achieve really great results. Our international students who come to Centenary are looking to study at mainly Australian universities, and so it is really important for us to assist our students to enter those universities. 

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Jo from China

We can choose the subjects we like to study, so you do not have to do the subjects you do not like.
  
Jack: 

The subject range and opportunities are huge. 

Sallyann Griffith: 

We have almost 40 subjects that students can study in their senior years of Year 11 and 12. 

In the faculties of maths and science, every year our top graduates, both local students and international students, graduate into engineering, maths and sciences at some of the top universities in Queensland. Our business graduates from Centenary High have recently entered business courses at the University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland and at Queensland University of Technology. 

We offer Chinese Mandarin classes right through the years at high school. We have a wide range of arts courses, so at senior level you can study music, music extension, drama and also media studies. 

Jack: 

Centenary really provides many opportunities for students to get involved in extracurricular activities and through those extracurricular activities, students from different year levels get to mingle with one another and therefore become friends.  

Sallyann Griffith: 

They take part in sporting teams, in musicals, in debating.

Jo:
 
I like to go to the gym at weekends with my friends and even with my homestay dad.
 
Sallyann Griffith: 

There is really something for everyone. We have new world-class facilities, a huge sporting centre and an arts auditorium with large performance spaces and studios.

When students first arrive they do an orientation program here at school with our international staff. We help them adjust to their life here at school and also life with an Australian family.
  
We have a homestay coordinator on our staff at school who selects local families to provide homes for our international students.

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Jane Campbell

We choose all our homestay families from the local area so that students are able to get to school really easily, either walking to school or a five-minute bus ride. Families are all visited and the homes are checked to make sure that they are suitable accommodation for a student; that the student has their own room; and that the family are a friendly, welcoming family open to hosting international students. 

Jo: 

I have my own bedroom and my own desk.

Sallyann Griffith: 

When your student arrives they will meet not only their teachers, but other students. They will have a buddy who will assist them to settle into the school and become a friend.
  
Jack: 

It really is a welcoming and inviting school.

Sallyann Griffith: 

Our international staff are on call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for our international students. 

We have warm weather right through the winter and we have sunshine all year.

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Constantine from Germany

I often go to Brisbane city with my host family. There is great scenery, and the other weekend I had a tour on the City Cat; a great experience. I like that this school is so open to students from other nations.

Sallyann Griffith: 

We have a beautiful school, great teachers and wonderful outcomes for your student.
 
Jack:

You really can achieve anything here at Centenary.
 
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Centenary State High School
Building the Future
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