Principal's Welcome

Welcome to Sydney Distance Education High School. We are a large public school where almost 1400 students, more than 140 experienced teachers and 24 highly skilled support staff contribute to students' learning by distance. Students learn in many ways: written materials, CD, DVD, video, over the telephone, by email and on the World Wide Web through online lessons developed using the Moodle learning management system. We also engage students through videoconferencing, student online forums, school and home visits, study days, excursions, peer support activities. We support students to take advantage of  these opportunities to enhance their learning and sense of connection to their peers, their teachers and their school.
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Student Visits

Study days, individual student visits, open days and presentation days provide excellent opportunities for students to meet their teachers face to face, participate in exciting and engaging learning activities, interact with other students and get rewarded for their efforts. Read More...

Student Achievements

We are proud of our record in bringing quality, individualised education to students who cannot attend a face-to-face school. Most of our students have overcome difficult circumstances to achieve outstanding results. Some of the highlights in 2007 were...

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Video Conferencing

Videoconferencing is an emerging technology that all Department of Education Schools will use in the near future as part of the Connected Classrooms initiative. SDEHS has been at the cutting edge of using this tool to communicate with students and fellow staff members since 2005.

e-learning at SDEHS

E-learning has always played major part of teaching and learning at Sydney Distance Education High School. We have hosted online lessons on our school webpage since 2002. In 2006, SDEHS introduced the use of Moodle to handle the management of our learning materials and online student/teacher communication. We trialled 4 new complete courses in 2006/2007 and are currently developing a variety of other courses to enhance our curriculum. We are constantly revaluating this process to make it the best system possible to meet the needs of our students. To access our courses go to e-learning.

Showcase

Students undertake a wide variety of projects while studying at Sydney Distance Education High School. Subjects have practical components that result in beautiful pieces of work such as artwork, design products and science projects.  Read More...