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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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At our school, your child will have the opportunity to engage in a challenging and comprehensive educational program within a caring and nurturing school.
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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.
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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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Last Thursday KSHS competed in Tournament of Minds. This is a competition focusing on creativity, collaborative problem solving, and critical thinking. Judges travelled down from Perth to watch our students compete in the Social Sciences challenge. It was exciting to have Katanning enter TWO ToM teams this year!
Our students worked in teams to present their 10 minute dramatic performance responding to a deep issue. This year, our teams addressed the topic of fast fashion and reflected upon the nuances of production, profit, consumers, and the environment.
Our students took ownership of all elements in their response to the challenge from script-writing to costume creation to rehearsal. Ms Tonga was especially proud of the way the teams responded intelligently on the spot to tricky questions from the judges following the performance.
The KSHS ToM team would like to give a special thank you to the art team and Ms Atkinson for supporting us in the weeks leading up to the performance by opening the art room at lunch, supervising preparation, and providing an endless supply of cardboard to match our students’ artistic visions!
📚🎶 Book Week 2026 at KSHS: Symphony of Stories 🎶📚
Last week, Katanning Senior High School proudly celebrated Book Week 2026, embracing this year's theme, "Symphony of Stories".
Our library was buzzing with a range of exciting activities that highlighted the power of reading, writing, and storytelling across the school.
📖 Year 7 and 8 students enjoyed a fantastic excursion to the Katanning Library, where they participated in engaging activities and had the opportunity to share their ideas and feedback on the library's upcoming renovations. It was wonderful to see our students contributing to the future of this important community space.
🔍 Year 11 and 12 students put their literary skills to the test in a challenging and entertaining Literary Escape Room, working together to solve clues and puzzles inspired by literature.
✍️ On Thursday, we hosted our very first Write a Book in a Day event. Two teams of dedicated students worked tirelessly for eight hours to plan, write, edit, and complete an original narrative. We are incredibly proud of their creativity, teamwork, and perseverance. Their completed stories were: 📚 Operation Friendship (Lower School Team) 📚 A Sign to Remember (Upper School Team)
🎭 To finish the week, staff and students dressed up as their favourite book characters on Friday, bringing stories to life and adding plenty of colour, creativity, and fun to our celebrations.
A huge thank you to Mrs. Allen, English teachers, Katanning Library, and all students who participated throughout the week. Together, you helped make Book Week 2026 a wonderful celebration of the stories that inspire, connect, and entertain us.
#BookWeek2026 #SymphonyOfStories #KSHS #LoveOfReading #WriteABookInADay #LiteracyMatters 📚✨
Interested in fostering or want to learn more? Join the Department of Communities for a Foster Care Information Session on Thursday, 24 September, from 5–6pm at Katanning Senior High School. Please register to attend: katanning-fostercare-infosession.eventbrite.com.au
🌟 Lights, camera, action! 🎬
We are proud to celebrate our KSHS students whose short film After Dark has been selected as a finalist in the 2026 Cinesnaps Short Film Competition.
Best of luck at the grand final. We can't wait to see what the future holds for these talented young filmmakers! 🎥✨
Amazing!!!
Week 6 was Science Week with the theme this year of ‘Seeds of Science: Nurturing knowledge for all’ so students explored a few crystal creation activities (using seed crystals as an attachment point in supersaturated solutions) and some students made mini wicking beds.
Wicking beds use a water reservoir and semi-permeable fabric to increase efficient water use and can be produced from a variety of materials to suit different spaces. We also ran our Year 5/6 Science Innovation Day and will be shared more details and photos from this event soon.
KSHS Science Team.
The Bush Ranger Cadets have recently spent two afternoons at the Katanning Community Garden putting up a greenhouse, which will be used to raise seedlings and plants for the garden and community projects. It is fantastic to see how this space is continuing to develop.
Well done 👏
👖 Jeans for Genes Day 👖
📅 Friday 4 September
🪙 Gold coin donation
Wear your jeans, bring a gold coin, and help support an amazing cause! 💙
Last week, our 2025-2026 UniReady in Schools cohort arrived in Perth for the Curtin UniReady in Schools Campus Tour.
On Monday we arrived and after checking in to our hotel accommodation we visited the “Prison Break” head to head escape room. One team managed to escape prison but unfortunately the rest got locked in! Following our escape room, we enjoyed dinner at Grill’d and desert at YoChi.
After a delicious breakfast, we headed over to Curtin University for our program hosted by the UniReady in Schools team. First, Curtin staff explained the UniReady pathway and gave an insight into university degrees. Next, we explored the campus in a “Race Around The University”, checking out different places like the motor sports lab and seven floor university. Then, we heard from current students about life at uni who answered our questions on topics like living on campus and university societies. After a lunch break where we checked out some of the many food spots on campus, we engaged with activities from the Humanities and Health Sciences facilities about accessible design and psychology.
Our students did a great job of representing KSHS and engaging with Curtin staff and students! It was a great way to celebrate having the end of UniReady in sight
Thank you to Ms Tonga and Mrs Gibson for supporting our students on this excursion.
🪄 A little bit of magic at Book Club🪄
To celebrate Book Week, our Book Club students spent the morning designing and decorating their very own Harry Potter-inspired wands. There were plenty of creative designs and some very impressive wand-making skills on display! A huge thank you to Miss Atkinson for sharing her Art Room with us and giving our students the perfect space to get creative.
The magic continues this Friday! Book Club students are invited to join in our Harry Potter Book Club dress-up for the Book Week Dress-Up Day. 🧙♀️🧙♂️ Don’t have a costume? No problem! Book Club has a small collection of Harry Potter costumes and accessories available for Book Club students to borrow for the day.
We can’t wait to see our witches, wizards and other magical characters (and their new wands!) around the school on Friday! ⚡
Miss Klingsporn
📚✏️ Write a Book in a Day 2026 ✏️📚
On Thursday 27 August, Katanning Senior High School will have a Lower School Team and an Upper School Team participating in the Write a Book in a Day Challenge.
Students will spend the day writing and illustrating an original book while raising funds for The Kids' Cancer Project, helping support vital childhood cancer research.
💛 Support our teams here:
Lower School Team: Teams | Write a Book In a Day
writeabookinaday.com/teams/?id=1107
Upper School Team: Teams | Write a Book In a Day
writeabookinaday.com/teams/?id=1108
Thank you for supporting our students and this worthy cau📚✏️ Write n📚✏️ Wrn#KidsCancerProjectoject 💛📖
📚🎶 A Symphony of Stories is coming to Katanning Senior High School! 🎶📚
We're looking forward to a week of Book Week fun and activities next week as we celebrate this year's theme, "Book an Adventure: A Symphony of Stories." Students will have the opportunity to enjoy a range of book-themed activities throughout the week, culminating in our much-anticipated Character Dress-Up Day on Friday.
We can't wait to see everyone's creative costumes and celebrate the joy of reading together!
#BookWeek2026 #ASymphonyOfStories #characterdressupday #LoveReading #katanningshs 📖✨
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.
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