Cooks Hill Campus

Celebrating Science Week at CHC. Today over 50 students developed their critical thinking skills via an interactive Forensic Science workshop! Crime Story with Luke- was a phenomenal learning experience.

Anna from our office just won 2 gold medals 🥇 Anna is our initial point of contact for all things CHC. A huge congratulations on this wonderful achievement!

🥇🥇 WE DID IT!
Two categories. Two Gold Medals. 🏆🏆

We’re incredibly proud to share that we’ve been awarded Gold Medals in both Sacred A Ca****la and Contemporary at the World Choir Games!

A huge thank you to our conductor Benjamin Lambert, our amazing singers, and everyone who has supported us along the way.

We came here to make music, share the experience and give it everything, and we’re heading home with two Gold Medals! 🎶❤️
What a team. What a week. What a result! 🇦🇺🇸🇪

Hunter Science Festival at Newcastle Museum | Sunday 23 August | 10am - 3pm | FREE and all ages!

Meet the robot dog and the robot humanoid, battle combat robots in a specially built arena, check out shark eggs, fossils, radio telescopes, mechanical limbs, bees, the CN garbage truck and so much more with over 40 science stalls!
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Hunter Science Festival The Hunter Science Festival at Newcastle Museum is back for 2026 and it's packed with even more FREE science and entertainment for families!

Join us online on Monday 24th August- to learn more about CHC! You can ask questions and we will share our enrolment processes for a Term 4 start.

Can you spot a fake news item? As part of our Pos Ed lessons students have researched and evaluated the dangers of fake news.

One of the Big Picture Learning distinguishers is that "Everyone's a Leader"....And this week it's on full display!

Year 12 student Jackson is leading our CHC Drama for Social Action Group, planning and running weekly lessons using knowledge from his LTI with the Drama department at Newcastle High School.

Meanwhile, our own Admin superstar Anna has been working with the CHC Choir giving tips and tricks for practicing singing in a choir- no surprise, given she sings with the gold medal-winning Newcastle Chamber Choir. Next week she jets off to Scandinavia to perform in Copenhagen (including for the Australian Ambassador!) and then to compete at the World Choir Games in Sweden; basically the Choir Olympics! Thanks for working with our musicians Anna and Best of Luck! We can't wait to hear how you go!

Congratulations to the CHC Choir who gave another amazing performance at the Newcastle High School NAIDOC celebration ceremony today!

We love celebrating our graduates' success stories, and this one's a big one. Rosie, a CHC 2023 graduate, came to visit us between shifts on Monday. We are so proud to see she is not only working in a hospital but also now in her second year of University study in Nuclear Medicine.

Rosie cites CHC, and particularly the outlearning and exhibition experiences, as giving her the confidence and communication skills necessary for success in her work and studies!

Congratulations Rosie! It was so great to hear from you!

Welcome back! Yesterday we started our new look LTI Tuesday’s where every student not at an LTI is expected on site. We did role plays, workshops and community research. Our goal is to make out-learning fun.