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Our Year 12 results are again outstanding. The top NT student was Darwin High School student, Aaron Berthon with an ATAR of 99.5. Congratulations Aaron on a phenomenal achievement.Eight of the NT Top 20 were Darwin High School students. Congratulations to Rachel Park, Ritwik Dasgupta, Marianna Diamandopoulos,…

Darwin High School teacher Matt Atfield has returned from a 12 day school visit to Vietnam as part of the ASEAN Bridge program. The school visits help promote cultural understanding between our two countries by sharing resources and working to increase the Vietnamese student's understanding of Darwin…

Darwin High School was the inaugural recipient of the Rowe Scientific Senior School Award at the recent Territory Young Scientists Awards. The Territory Young Scientists Awards are an annual event held by the Science Teachers Association of the Northern Territory (STANT).The award recognises the number…

This semester, Darwin High School's Stylish Food classes participated in the Years 9 and 10 Flavour Forecast, an annual recipe challenge hosted by HEIA and McCormick Foods. The students were required to work in teams to create three original recipes within the set criteria.One of the challenges…

Darwin High School basketballers have returned from Malaysia as champions of the 4th International High School Basketball Championship. Darwin High School teacher and Coach of the boy's team, Steve McGugan, shares his experience.Many things went well for our team including the draw where after a…

Darwin High School Year 11 student, Cindy Um, has been selected to attend the 2017 National Computer Science Summer School (NCSS) at the University of Sydney and the National Questacon Invention Convention (NQIC) in Canberra.The National Computer Science School (NCSS) is a ten-day summer school which…

The Stage 1 Integrated Learning PE classes recently completed a Surf Life Saving course with Surf Life Saving NT.Congratulations to the following students for completing the Certificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue):Jarvis Aldenhoven, Edward Box, Thomas Clarke, Eddie Gardiner, Andrew Taylor, Jordan…

Last term, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Indonesian classes participated in the Assessment of Languages Competence ACER. Congratulations to the students who achieved high distinctions for both sections of the test in Chinese: Ziqi Jia, Hillary Jong, Corinna Ha and Runda Li.Congratulations also…

Darwin High School Alumna Miranda Tapsell has been nominated in the ‘Best Actress’ category for the 2017 TV Logie Awards for her work in 'Love Child', Secret City’, and ‘Clever Man’.In 2015 Miranda won Silver Logies for Most Outstanding Newcomer and Most Popular New Talent for her role as Martha…

Congratulations to Darwin High School's Year 11 student William McClay (pictured above), who was awarded 2nd prize in the national Chinese Star Writing Competition. The competition required students to write an essay of at least 500 characters on the theme ‘China and I’. William wrote about his…