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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.
A unique learning environment
Engaged Learning
At our school, your child will have the opportunity to engage in a challenging and comprehensive educational program within a caring and nurturing school.
Individual Approach
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.
Community Partnerships
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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🌸 Bloom Festival – Year 10 Food & Fibre Textiles Incursion 🌸
As part of the Bloom Festival, our Year 10 Food & Fibre Textiles students were fortunate to welcome local artists Mrs Newman and Mrs Van Niekerk to our classroom on 26 August.
Students had a wonderful opportunity to explore sun-dyeing techniques and discover how the effects of shade and sunlight can create beautiful variations in colour and patterns. ☀️🎨
The students thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with the technique and creating their own beautiful cushions. 🧵🪡 Each cushion reflects their creativity, newly developed textile skills and individual designs.
We are very proud that the students’ cushions will be displayed at a local artisan shop as part of the Bloom Festival celebrations. 🌺
It was a fantastic opportunity for our students to learn new skills, work alongside talented local artists and strengthen our school–community partnership.
A big thank you to Mrs Newman and Mrs Van Niekerk for sharing their knowledge, creativity and time with our students. We look forward to seeing the students’ beautiful work showcased in our community! 💕🌸
#katanningshs #BloomFestival
⚽ Good Standing Soccer saw both of our teams compete in a full day of competition in Albany, proudly modelling our RAPT values on and off the field. A special thank you to our student coaches for their leadership and support as part of their Certificate II in Sport and Recreation. Well done to everyone involved for representing Katanning Senior High School with pride! 👏
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📚🌟 Year 9 History Excursion - National Anzac Centre, Albany 🌟📚
Our Year 9 HASS students recently travelled to the National Anzac Centre in Albany as part of their History studies. 🇦🇺
This valuable learning experience gave students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of Australia's involvement in the First World War through interactive exhibits and the personal stories of those who served. 🎖️
Students explored the historical significance of Albany as the departure point for the first ANZAC convoy in 1914, helping bring their classroom learning to life and developing a greater appreciation of the experiences and sacrifices made by Australian servicemen and women. ❤️🌺
A big thank you to our HASS staff for organising this meaningful excursion and supporting our students throughout the day.#📚🌟 Years#📚🌟 Year 9 Histel📚🌟 Yearo#LearningBeyondTheClassroomsroom 🇦🇺📚🌺✨
👖 Jeans for Genes Day 👖
📅 Friday 4 September
🪙 Gold coin donation
Wear your jeans, bring a gold coin, and help support an amazing cause! 💙
🌟 KSHS Assembly Celebration - Respect Awards! 🌟
Yesterday at our school assembly, we celebrated students who have been demonstrating Respect, one of our KSHS Values. 👏🎉
Congratulations to all students who received an award for showing Respect by treating people, places and property with courtesy and care. 🏫✨ These students consistently demonstrate this value in the classroom and around our school, setting a wonderful example for others. 🌟
We are incredibly proud of your positive attitude, kindness and commitment to making KSHS a great place to learn and grow! 😊
👏 Join us in celebrating these amazing students! 🎊🎉
#KSHS #Respect #KSHSValues #ProudToBeKSHS #StudentSuccess 🌟🏆🙌😊🎉
Last week for Book Week dress up day, our KSHS Book Club did a group Harry Potter themed costume!
This was a great way to celebrate Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as our Book Club book of the term.
You can see that even our staff members got into the full magical spirit with a variety of costumes. Together we represented Hogwarts students, Hogwarts staff like Professor McGonagall, Professor Trelawney, and Professor Sprout, and even the dark side of the wizarding world with Bellatrix Lestrange and a Dementor!
Thank you to the English department for putting on a fantastic Book Week and encouraging a love of reading.
– Ms Tonga and Ms Klingsporn
🏃♀️🏃♂️ Athletics Carnival Lead-Up Events 🏃♂️🏃♀️
The countdown is on to the Katanning SHS Athletics Carnival on 25 September! Students have the opportunity to earn valuable faction points in our lead-up distance events.
📅 1500m Events 🏃 Wednesday, 2 September
🏃 Friday, 4 September
📅 800m Events 🏃 Monday, 7 September
🏃 Tuesday, 8 September
🏃 Wednesday, 9 September
🏃 Thursday, 10 September
We encourage all students to get involved, challenge themselves, and represent their faction with pride. Every point counts as we build towards Carnival Day! 🏆
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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.
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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