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Xavier College was founded in 1878 and is a Jesuit school. The Senior Campus stands on 40 acres 6km from the centre of Melbourne. Two Early and Middle Years campuses, Burke Hall and Kostka Hall, were founded in 1921 and 1937 respectively. Xavier offers a wide variety of subject areas and co-curricular activities and all programs aim to foster young men of competence, conscience and compassion who will strive to make a difference in the wider world once they leave Xavier.
Facilities: Modern classrooms, science laboratories, art/graphics, drama, media and darkroom facilities, computer centres and resource centres on all campuses. All campuses of Xavier have beautiful ovals which host a wide variety of sports. At the Senior Campus the Stephenson Centre comprises double indoor basketball courts, a swimming pool, gymnasium, tennis courts and various multi-purpose rooms.
Curriculum: Xavier offers a broad yet academic curriculum that aims to cater for the diverse needs of students. The college’s VCE results have been consistently excellent with 30 per cent of the class of 2008 achieving an ENTER of 95 or better and 47 per cent achieving 90 or better. While emphasis rests with each class teacher to respond to each individual student’s learning requirements, enrichment and acceleration programs are also offered across the curriculum. LOTE programs are French, Italian, Japanese, Latin and Classical Greek. An extensive student exchange program supports language study with partner schools in France, Italy, the USA and Japan. Information technology is an integral part of student learning across all subject areas at all levels.
Sport: Xavier offers an extremely wide range of sports including cricket, tennis, football, soccer, rowing, rugby, badminton, basketball, table tennis, and athletics of all sorts, volleyball, golf, lawn bowls, hockey, swimming, martial arts, snow sports and gymnastics.
Co-curricular activities: Music accounts for an extensive student involvement at Xavier. There are numerous groups, from large bands to small ensembles, choirs and orchestras, all of which perform publicly in competitions and concerts. Media, drama, chess and debating are also important and popular aspects of the co-curricular program. The Centre for Faith and Service runs many programs throughout the year which encourage students to reflect about themselves as individuals and to be active participants in the wider community, particularly with those who are disadvantaged or marginalised.
Student welfare programs: A Jesuit education insists on the individual care of each person. The House and tutor systems are long-standing and highly regarded aspects of Xavier’s programs and each year level has its own chaplain. Individual pastoral care, counselling and careers guidance are provided for students.
Located in the heart of Sydney’s CBD, St Andrew’s Cathedral School is a vibrant, co-educational institution providing students from Kindergarten to Year 12 with a strong academic program, extensive opportunities for involvement in sport, music and the dramatic arts and nurturing pastoral care; all set within a cosmopolitan cityscape. Our educational programs are built on diversity and acceptance and are in-sync with the dynamism of a modern society, nurturing each student’s unique learning style within a framework of Christian values. Student and staff relations are genuine and built on mutual respect. Students come to St Andrew’s not only to learn but to be a part of a growing community of support. St Andrew’s is easily accessible throughout the Sydney metropolitan area using public transport. Junior and Middle School facilities in St Andrew’s House offer immediate undercover access from Town Hall Station. The Senior College is located in the Bishop Barry Centre, which provides a collegiate style campus tailored specifically to learning needs for Years 10 to 12.
Facilities: St Andrew’s has modern educational learning facilities that give high accessibility to Information Technology for classes and students, with seven computer rooms, plus several other areas for student computer access and banks of laptops with remote access. Most classrooms are equipped with full multimedia and/or interactive white boards. There are also science laboratories, a library, music practice rooms, visual and dramatic arts areas, a fitness centre, a unique rooftop playground and an indoor sporting facility. There is also an Independent Learning Centre that monitors students’ academic progress throughout the year. Combined, these facilities provide an interactive environment conducive to learning.
Electives Years 7 to 9: In addition to key learning subjects, St Andrew’s offers Commerce, Design & Technology, Drama, English as a Second Language, French, German, History Elective, Industrial Technology — Timber, Information & Software Technology, Japanese, Music, Philosophy, Physical Activity and Sports Studies, Textiles Technology, Visual Arts and World in Focus.
Electives Years 10 to 12: Ancient
History, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Design and Technology, Drama,
Earth and Environmental Science, Economics, English Fundamentals, English
Standard, English Advanced, English as a Second Language, English Extension 1,
English Extension 2 , French Continuers, German Continuers, Japanese
Continuers, Geography, History Extension, Legal Studies, General Mathematics,
Mathematics Extension 1, Mathematics Extension 2, Modern History, Music 1,
Music 2, Music Extension, Personal Development, Health & Physical
Education, Physics, Society & Culture, Software Design
& Development, Studies of Religion 2, Textiles
& Design and Visual Arts.
Sport: St Andrew’s provides sports activities for the full range of abilities. All students are encouraged to participate in the School’s sporting activities because of the enjoyment and support gained through team participation and to improve their physical fitness. The School is proud of its affiliation with Sydney University, in particular St Andrew’s College. St Andrew’s oval is the home venue for rugby, football, cricket and softball. SACS also uses other University facilities for basketball, tennis and squash. Students can also participate in cross-country, fencing, golf, hockey, netball, rock climbing, soccer, softball, swimming, tae kwon do, water polo and yoga. With so much sport being played and offered, each student can find a niche to excel, to represent the School with pride, or just participate and enjoy the rigor and physical fitness achieved through sports participation.
Extracurricular activities: St Andrew’s has an exceptional reputation for dramatic and musical excellence, with over 40 music ensembles, aimed at a range of skill levels, integrated with outstanding performance opportunities that include Cathedral events, musicals, interstate and international tours. Drama facilities include an in-house “black-box” theatre and open theatre-style classrooms. There are eight annual drama productions for Middle and Senior College, as well as two IB productions and inter-school theatre sports competitions. Other activities within the school include Debating, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, Mock Trial and numerous clubs and societies for special interests.
Welfare and personal development: School Houses constitute a major structural and pastoral role within the school, with each student a member of one of eight houses. Not only are Houses used in competitions such as sport and debating, but as an opportunity for individual academic development, via small, House-based tutor groups that all students meet with on a weekly basis. This fosters greater inter-year relationships and a culture of care between students as they assist one another both in and out of the classroom. Professional counselling services, gifted and talented programs and remedial teaching are provided by the school.
Special features: St Andrew’s takes advantage of its central city location to provide student’s with a rich diversity of external excursions and curriculum-based student experiences to complement conventional classroom teaching and learning, and provide practical, resourceful outcomes for all pupils. St Andrew’s also has a challenging and rewarding outdoor education program, which students commence in Year 3. The program makes use of St Andrew’s 90-hectare Kirrikee site in the Southern Highlands. There are also more specific Senior College trips including expeditions from Kosciuszko to Bass Strait, mountain biking in New Zealand, canoeing on the Murray River, country skiing and community service projects in central Australia. Overseas trips have included Peru, Argentina and India.
From the school: Our School is nothing without the students that give it life. This year we celebrate 125 years of a quality academic program that sees education go beyond the classroom and into the heart of the best facilities the CBD has to offer. St Andrew’s is a school that nurtures students into independence. It is a place where assemblies are gatherings, your cohort is your community and you are known and valued, as one of our 2009 Year 12 graduates describes: “Sending your kids to St Andrew’s is the best decision, because you are sending them into a family and community of love. Teachers are an amazing support base, and even stick around after school to help. And because [our students don’t all] come from a certain area, everyone fits.”
Founded in 1959, Lyneham High is set in extensive grounds in an area well serviced by public transport and in close proximity to several international sporting venues. The school offers a diverse and relevant curriculum, enabling its graduates to enter the world of work or further study as responsible, independent, knowledgeable and caring individuals.
Facilities: Sports fields, tennis courts, gymnasium, separate assembly hall, four computer laboratories, recently refurbished library with additional computer access, greenhouse, agriculture plot, livestock facilities, modern kitchens and science laboratories, drama rooms and large concert band rehearsal room.
Electives Years 7 to 10: French, Agriculture, Art, Drama, Concert Band at all levels, Computing Studies, Food Technology, Café hospitality, Wood and Metal Technology, Photography, Digital Photography, Electronics, Outdoor Education, Media, Principles of Sport Education.
Sport: A wide variety of sporting activities is available including tennis, hockey, basketball, netball, athletics, swimming, various football codes and softball.
Extracurricular activities: Debating, five school concert bands, two jazz bands an annual musical production or Rock Eisteddfod entry, Tournament of the Minds, mathematics/science/English/geography/LOTE competitions, ACT Science Fair, other academic competitions. All Year 10 students are involved in a week of full-time work experience as well as Australian Business Week.
Welfare and personal development: There is an extensive student support network at Lyneham, including a peer support program, student council and student representatives on the school board. The emphasis is on self-discipline. Each Year is supported by an executive teacher, a co-ordinator and an assistant co-ordinator.
Special features: Lyneham High School services a diverse community and caters for students of all ability levels through a streamed academic program supported by several specialised programs. These include LEAP (Lyneham Enriched Academic Program), which extends and enriches the learning experiences of gifted and talented students; SEAL (Sporting Excellence at Lyneham), which provides outstanding training opportunities for elite sports students; a learning centre, which offers quality learning for students with mild intellectual disabilities; and a study centre, which supports ESL and learning assistance students with individualised attention and programs. In addition we have an outstanding band program. Around 450 students are currently involved in one of the five concert bands which students study as an online subject. As well as class time there are many public performances and competitions as well as trips interstate to take part in festivals.
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West Wallsend is a proudly comprehensive school that welcomes students with a wide range of interests and abilities and has high expectations of them. It challenges students to achieve their personal best and expects students to accept responsibility for their learning and behaviour. Facilities: Multi-purpose hall, basketball courts, sporting fields, four computer rooms, industrial arts block, electronics and visual arts, mining and local history museum.
Electives Years 7 to 10: Courses offered include Visual Arts, Childcare, Computing, Electronics, Human Movement, and Landscape Planning.
Electives Years 11 and 12: Courses offered include the full range of the Sciences and Mathematics courses, PD/Health/PE, Engineering Science, Music, Visual Arts, Industrial Technology, and vocational education courses on and off site.
Sport: Students participate in the full range of zone sporting competitions and have been particularly successful in cross-country, soccer, regional athletics competitions, and knock-out competitions.
Extracurricular activities: Pilot for Plan-it Youth (a mentoring scheme for post-school options), choir, drama, debating, Mock Trial, computing, video, photography, school band.
Welfare and personal development: The school has a proactive and dedicated welfare committee. The committee is supported by a strong and active SRC. Appropriate programs across Years 7 to 12 are firmly embedded in the school’s curriculum.
Special features: Outstanding visual arts profile, teaming for all Year 7 classes, independent learning class for Years 7 and 8, school musical and Starstruck, outstanding value adding in all formal state-wide testing.
Stannies is one of the largest boys’ Boarding Schools in New South Wales with more than 200 boarders mainly from the Central West, Southern and Western areas of the State. The College offers: small class sizes; a rich curriculum providing both academic and vocational subject choices; a co-operative teaching and learning program that engages students and provides significant opportunities for parents to support and encourage their sons; a curriculum that engages boys; a rich co-curricular experience across the Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Sport;
Scholarships and bursaries: Stannies offers Vincentian Bursaries for families who are unable to meet the fees, Isolated Children Scholarships for young children living in isolated areas where access to secondary school is non-existent or limited, Music and Art Scholarships and Indigenous Scholarships for Australians of Indigenous descent.
Facilities: Facilities include an assembly hall, a new Year 12 boarding house, a newly refurbished Year 7 dormitory, a swimming pool, a library, eight ovals, four tennis courts, a gymnasium, extensive private music practice rooms, a full complement of band instruments, a new industrial arts building, a computer laboratory, a multimedia centre, and an agriculture plot. The campus incorporates buildings classified by the National Trust. The college also has an outdoor education campus at Trunkey Creek.
Electives Years 7 to 10: Commerce, Art, Visual Arts, Music, Geography, Italian, History, Agriculture, Information Systems Technology, Design and Technology — Automotive Technology, Metal Technology, Wood Technology, Graphics Technology.
Electives Years 11 and 12: Mathematics (all levels), English (all courses), Design and Technology, Physics, Senior Science, Ancient History, Modern History, Drama, Information Processes Technology, Software Design & Development, Studies of Religion 1 & 2, Business Studies, Economics, Chemistry, Biology, Visual Arts, Agriculture, Geography, Legal Studies, Personal Development, Health & Physical Education, Vocational Education & Training courses: Entertainment, Construction, Automotive, Primary Industries, Metals & Engineering. Subject to availability of places, the following TVET courses may be offered — Computing PC Skills, Introductory Nursing Studies, Aviation, Child Studies, Animal Care, Electrotechnology, Sport & Recreation, Hospitality, Automotive Studies.
Sport: Rugby union, soccer, tennis, swimming, basketball, baseball, athletics. There are extra costs for some sports. St Stanislaus’ College is a member of the Independent Schools Association (ISA), which provides an excellent standard of interschool competition.
Co-curricular activities: Music, debating, public speaking, Mock Trial, chess club, drama, writing groups, Young Achiever, Film Festival, concert and stage bands, Stannies Art Association, and outdoor activities such as equestrian/dressage events.
Welfare and personal development: There is a strong school spirit. Pastoral care of the boys within a caring environment is a feature of the school.
Special features: A number of special programs are offered to meet the needs of the students. Remediation in English and mathematics is available from Years 7 to 12. Study masters closely supervise the students’ evening study. Special gifted and talented enrichment programs are offered at the college, both within and additional to the timetable. The resources of CSU Bathurst, the Bathurst Enrichment Network, The University of Western Sydney and University of New South Wales are used to provide challenging opportunities for interested students. More than 130 students are enrolled in the instrumental music program. Students take the NSW Board-determined course in Years 11 and 12. Classes are streamed and the average size is 25 in the junior school and 15 in the senior school.
The RIDBC Thomas Pattison School is an innovative approach by the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children to meet the educational and social needs of students who use Australian sign language (Auslan) as their first or preferred language.
Combining modern facilities, advanced instruction techniques and a nurturing environment, the school has high expectations for its students, encouraging them to develop their academic and social skills, their Auslan communication skills and their English literacy. Students are supported to achieve their personal best. The school is bilingual, using Auslan and written English and also offers spoken language opportunities for students. The curriculum from kindergarten through to Year 10 in secondary school is based on the syllabus set out by the NSW Board of Studies. The school aims to equip students with the knowledge, skills and abilities to pursue their ambitions, including tertiary study and a satisfying career.
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