Albion Park High School is a government co-educational secondary school in Albion Park, a suburb in Shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia. It resides on the corner of Church Street and Terry Street.

School History

"For several years Albion Park has been a rapidly developing area with the opening of the Centenary Estate. By 1990 the population had increased to the point where a local high school was required. The building of our 9 million dollar school was well publicised and many members of the community became strongly involved in the planning of enrolments, classes and other educational requirements. In the middle of 1990, Colin Walters was appointed as first principal of the school. Mr Walters was involved with community members, prospective students, the Department of Education and Oak Flats High School in establishing the new curriculum, resourcing and staffing the school." - The Flame, 2000.
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Computer Resources

The school currently had 3 major computer labs. Two of which have recently been upgraded to new, more powerful computers with LCD displays. The other computer lab contains older computers with CRT displays. It is very much overdue to for upgrade.

The school also has 2 smaller computer rooms, one based in the Visual Arts block, containing 8 eMac computers. There is another small computer room containing roughly 20 new computers with LCD displays in the Industrial Arts block between two normal rooms (Tas 1 and Tas 2).

The schools library also has a computer section which contains about 20 computers running Windows 2000 Professional, unlike the others in the school which run Windows XP Professional (excluding Macs).

Schools External Website

The schools external website is a website built with frames which were generated by Microsoft FrontPage 6.0. The website has been built and managed by staff and students, receiving many updates from many people with different experience levels. The site uses plain HTML.

When two students suggested implementing or creating a PHP CMS for the schools website, the schools system administrators said they had been thinking about purchasing an ASP.NET content management system to manage the schools website, and allow teachers to add information more easily, without any chance of major page layout changes.

External links

Albion Park High School website

NSW Department of Education and Training: Albion Park High School