Quakers Hill High School

Quakers Hill High School is a school in the Quakers Hill/Parklea area in New South Wales, Australia. The school was built in 1993.

House system

• Ravensworth (red)
• Oberon (orange)
• Yallah (yellow)
• Gundagai (green)
• Bathurst (blue)
• Perisher (purple)

Executive staff

• Lauretta Claus (Principal)
• Robert Bredin (Deputy Principal)
• Therese Hourigan (Deputy Principal)
• Karen Critchely (Head Teacher Teaching & Learning/History)
• Anthony Head (Head Teacher Social Science)
• Piret White (Head Teacher Welfare)
• Greg Wright (Head Teacher TAS)
• Georgia Valatiadis (Head Teacher Creative Art)
• Michael Brooks (Head Teacher Teaching & Learning-Technology)
• Melissa Lachevre (Head Teacher Mentor)
• David Blench (Head Teacher PD/H/PE)
• Kamani Naicker (Head Teacher Science)
• Kuldip Khehra (Head Teacher Mathematics)
• Linden "my name is" Earl (Head Teacher English)
• Jennifer Payne (Head Teacher Support Unit)

Musicals

Quaker Hill High School produces an annual cabaret or musical to showcase the many talents of the students. In 2010, the show was based on Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado”. Literally hundreds of hours of planning and preparation by Ms Franco (Director) and Ms Lachevre (Producer) ensure the success of the annual show. Various other teachers and, of course the students throw themselves into making theses productions such a successful and rich experience for all involved. It was, however, fairly modernised compared to the original "The Mikado," by adding new characters, updating the humour and adding various pop-culture references.

Previous productions include; Relationships: A Snapshot In Time, Grease, Back To The Eighties and Who The Heck Is Shakespeare. However, these are a few as musicals in QHHS were also made and produced from halfway through the nineties and in the early 2000s.

QHHS's resent musical 'It began with eve', was a musical put together with different pieces from different movies and musicals, aimed at women. This included scenes from Bad teacher, Oklahoma, Oliver, Hair and Sweet Charity. This showed what women could do and what different women have accomplished. From getting the right to vote and to being treated with respect from a husband in a normal household. The director Ms Franco, announced that this would be her last musical, and instead next year's would just be a play.

Notable alumni

• Kenrick Monk, an Olympic swimmer for Australia

Coordinates: 33°44′S 150°54′E / 33.733°S 150.900°E

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