A large proportion of the students at Sacred Heart College are involved in working towards their Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Awards at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels. This challenging scheme fosters the ideas of responsibility, developing personal confidence, teamwork and co-operation, self-discipline, motivation, continuity and community service.
 

All Year 9 students are encouraged to enrol for Bronze and the success and popularity of this scheme is reflected in the high number of Gold Awards achieved by Year 13 students. This year sixteen girls were presented with their Gold Awards by  HRH Prince Edward at a ceremony held here at Sacred Heart College. 
 

Expeditions are organised by the college Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Award Co-ordinator, Emma Peterson, and include tramps, rope courses, spider webs, mountain biking, horse trekking and kayaking.