This school’s multicultural character is reflected in the 31 linguistic and culture groups that make up the student body, and in the languages of Chinese, French and Arabic offered by the languages faculty. The school caters for the special needs of gifted children, of students from non-English-speaking backgrounds and those with learning difficulties. The school also runs an integration program, a social skills program, and parent classes in English language and computing. The school recently received a National Literacy Teaching Award.
Facilities: The school has four main computer laboratories as well as smaller subject-specific computer kiosks. All are networked with access to a multimedia server, a curriculum server, and the Internet. It also has a library, a gymnasium, a weights gym, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, a volleyball court, and an industrial kitchen.
Sport: Basketball, rugby league and union, water polo, baseball, volleyball, cricket, touch football, tennis, table tennis, soccer, squash, swimming. There is an extra charge for some sports. The school offers Targeted Sports Programs (TSPs) under the leadership of a school-based sport director, within a professional coaching framework, and across a variety of sports.
Extracurricular activities: Student council, Double Helix club, prefects, Australian Stock Exchange competition, Polynesian club, Youth Rock, “circuit breaker”, audio-engineering, chess, debating, Australasian Schools computing, mathematics competitions, after-hours homework centre.
Special features: A proud tradition of academic and sporting achievement, a developed climate of inter-cultural respect and tolerance, central involvement each year in a state-wide production of Youth Rock, astrong focus on literacy skills development (led by a full-time literacy officer), an effective student welfare program. The school has in recent years achieved exceptional results in computing (medals), mathematics (medals), and in visual arts (ArtExpress and NSW Art Gallery), and HSC merit listings in mathematics.In 2005, the school received the National Excellence Award for NSW in the annual Literacy and Numeracy Week. The school has in recent years achieved exceptional results in computing (medals), mathematics (medals), and in visual arts (ArtExpress and NSW Art Gallery), and HSC merit listings in maths.