School Assembly

ASSEMBLIES

Assemblies are held every second Thursday, generally in Currie Hall. Outside assemblies are also held when the hall is being used for exams.

What happens at assembly?

Thursday's assembly is usually held in Currie Hall. After period 3, all students move to the hall and line up with their roll call group at one of the four entrances to the hall. Bags are left outside the hall – teachers keep an eye on these so they are not interfered with. The assembly is chaired by the school’s student leaders (captains and vice-captains and sometimes other members of the SRC) and includes presentations, reports, announcements, performances and visiting speakers. Assembly always starts with the singing of the school song and the national anthem.

SCHOOL SONG

The school song is sung at all assemblies in the hall, as well as at all special occasions and ceremonies. It is also often chanted by school sporting teams after a victory. You will learn the song during Year 7 Music lessons in Term 1 or just by listening at assembly. Ex-students of the school often talk about the school song and they can all remember the words, even fifty years or more after leaving school! 

The reference to Wagga High being ‘the high school on the hill’ relates to the fact that although the school was established in 1912 in Gurwood Street, it moved away from the dangers of regular flooding from the Murrumbidgee River, to its present location on the hill in 1917. Check out the front of B Block and you will see that the sign simply says ‘High School 1917’. At that time, it was the only high school in Wagga Wagga and so it really was the high school on the hill. 

From the hills of Tumbarumba, from the farms of Old Junee

From the tree-lined streets of Wagga, we climb the hill to thee,

In classrooms and on sports fields, we strive with all our will,

To be worthy sons and daughters of the High School on the Hill.

Here youth, with kindly patience, is shown the path to fame,

Is taught to take the knocks that come, is taught to play the game.

We learn to frown on license, to cherish liberty,

To conquer all by conquering self, to serve as served by thee.

To the hills of Tumbarumba, to the farms of Old Junee,

To the tree-lined streets of Wagga, we go at last from thee;

Though stormy years may come and go, they’ll live in memory still

The happy, happy days we spent at the High School on the Hill.