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Darwin High School students competed at the Interschool Darwin Region Basketball competition last month.In previous years Darwin High School has entered up to fourteen teams with unlimited entries, but this year each school was limited to two boys’ and two girls’ teams. Approximately 90 students trialled…

Darwin High School Year 10 Legal Studies class participated in the NT Legal Aid Commission’s (NTLAC) Judgement Day program last week.Students learned about aspects of the criminal justice system by participating in a mock trial. Two students admirably played the role of defendants charged with stealing.…

Friday 17 March was the National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence. This year, Darwin High School held “The Wire” activity where students demonstrated their stand against bullying and violence by writing positive and supportive messages around bullying prevention. Students wrote messages in…

Darwin High alumni Kristina Mu and Marianna Diamondopoulos were recognised as recipients of Charles Darwin University's High Achievers Scholarship last week. These scholarships are awarded for excellence in academic achievement. Congratulations to both former students and we wish you success in…

On March 8, Darwin High School students participated in the regional round of the Australian Computational Linguistics Olympiad (OzClo).The OzClo contest is held in two rounds.The First Round is a two hour competition and students had to work in teams of four on a range of language analysis problems.…

Darwin High School will be holding a Pink Stumps Day during lunchtime on Friday 24 March on the school oval to raise money for the McGrath Foundation. The McGrath Foundation places Breast Care Nurses in communities around Australia, making a real difference to families experiencing breast cancer.So wear…

On Wednesday 8 March the Stage 2 Women’s Studies class hosted a highly successful morning tea for invited guests and dignitaries in order to celebrate International Women’s Day 2017. The students all had the opportunity to ask one person to come who had supported their choice of subject or who had…

This year Darwin High School is changing the way it communicates with students and parents, with the introduction of a new software program, Compass.Teachers are already using Compass for progress reports, student observations, learning tasks and parent notifications. Students have also been using Compass…

Darwin High School Year 11 Centre 4 Excellence (C4E) Chemistry students went on an excursion to Charles Darwin University (CDU) last week. The excursion was to enable the C4E Year 11 students to use specialised equipment in atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) and chromatography to separate and analyse…

Darwin High students are taking on the gender inequality of high school science thanks to the schools girls only STEM class program. Research shows at a secondary school level, the number of female students studying physical science continues to be considerably lower than male students.In 2015, Darwin…