Killarney Heights Public School

Bringing Excellence in Education Within a Unique Bilingual Setting

Telephone02 9451 9547

Emailkillarneyh-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Learning at our school

Find out more about what your child will learn at our school.

The NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) is responsible for the curriculum, Kindergarten to Year 12, for all NSW schools.

For the primary years, NESA develops syllabuses for all subjects in 6 key learning areas:

  • creative arts
  • English
  • human society and its environment (HSIE)
  • mathematics
  • personal development, health and physical education (PDHPE)
  • science and technology.

Some primary schools may also offer languages.

Bilingual Program

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Killarney Heights Public School is one such school which offers learning in other languages.
  • For more information about our unique English-French bilingual program, please visit our Bilingual Program menu.
  • Note that extra-curricular programs for learning Mandarin, Portuguese and French are also offered. For details, please visit our Extra Curricular page.

Like all NSW schools, we have developed teaching and learning programs to suit our local context and the needs of our students.

To learn more about curriculum in NSW, visit:

Stages of learning

There are 6 stages of learning from Kindergarten to Year 12. Primary school covers Early Stage 1, or Kindergarten, to the end of Stage 3.

  • Stage 1 includes Kindergarten to Year 2 (Kindergarten is referred to as Early Stage 1).
  • Stage 2 includes Years 3 and 4.
  • Stage 3 includes Years 5 and 6.