About Us
Singleton High School
Singleton High School is a large comprehensive rural high school in the Muswellbrook Education area which is part of the Hunter/Central Coast School Region. The high school is adjacent to the King Street Primary School and on the same site as the Singleton Technical and Further Education (TAFE) campus of the Hunter Institute. The school has as its charter: "A Learning Community fostering the talents of all students for a better future."
The school has a comprehensive curriculum offering a diverse range of traditional and dual accredited vocational educational courses within the school as well as providing access to TAFE delivered Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses at Singleton TAFE. The school's focus is to enhance the educational opportunities for all students. To this end we have developed explicit models of quality teaching, models for improving literacy and numeracy and innovations in authentic assessment for year 10. We have developed an interdisciplinary curriculum for year 7 which involves an investigative learning approach. We have fostered strong links with sister schools in Takahata, Japan, and have a very strong sporting ethos.
Singleton TAFE Campus
The Singleton TAFE Campus forms part of the Hunter Institute and manages approximately 800 enrolments per year, plus a range of customised programs for industry and the community. We take pride in the flexible approaches we have to training, including workbased (on-job) training and assessment, online delivery across the Internet, video conferencing, web conferencing and traditional face to face classes. Our capability expands from training in General Education and Preparation for Work to Business Skills, Business Management, Occupational Health & Safety, Training & Assessment, Financial Skills, Computing, Information Technology, Agriculture, Digital Photography, Fine Arts, Agriculture, Rigging & Scaffolding, Metal Fabrication & Welding and Visual Arts.
Singleton Community College
Singleton Community College is part of the Australia wide network of Community College’s Australia. In NSW there are over fifty Community College providers who form the network of not-for profit, community owned and managed providers linked under the NSW Adult and Community Education sector. This sector delivers a range of accredited and non accredited vocational and non vocational interest and wellbeing courses ranging short one day courses through to year long qualifications and ongoing classes.
Singleton Community College offers a variety of vocational and non-vocational training programs in a range of areas. Training programs include First Aid, Community Service- Aged and Disability Care, Business Services – Computing and Office administration skills and Literacy and Numeracy as well as general courses such as Yoga and Tai Chi, Foreign languages, Arts and Crafts and Gardening to reflect current local needs. Courses are run over a four term program with a program brochure produced for each term to promote the variety of learning opportunities on offer.