Erskine Park High School offers every student the opportunity to excel and to achieve their personal best through outstanding teaching and learning practices in a safe, happy and purposeful environment. Erskine Park High School is a modern, vibrant comprehensive 7–12 high school with rich relationships with the primary schools of our learning community. Serving the Erskine Park learning community, the school motto of “Pride in Achievement” makes it a school of high expectations, energetic achievement and excellent results.
Facilities: The school boasts three modern multimedia technology spaces, faculty computer labs, wireless technology, a multi-purpose hall with theatre screen and sound, a fully equipped and modernised connected classroom, a computerised music composition laboratory, an expansive library with computerised systems throughout, modern student kitchens and spacious science laboratories, a lecture theatre, a school farm, amphitheatre, fitness centre and weights room, sporting fields, fully equipped music rooms with brass concert band instruments, basketball courts, cricket nets. The school is air-conditioned in many spaces. The school also possesses a Support Unit with four support classes.
Electives Years 9 and 10: A diversity and richness of courses includes Agriculture, Ceramics, Child Studies, Chinese, Civics, Commerce, Construction, Dance, Drama, Early Childhood Studies, Exercise and Sport Studies, Food Technology, Geography, Graphics Technology, History, Industrial Technology Wood and Metal, Information and Software Technology, Music, Photography, Textiles Technology and Visual Arts.
Electives Years 11 and 12: These include Agriculture, Ancient History, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Community and Family Studies, Earth and Environmental Science, Economics, English Extension 2, English Extension 1, English Advanced, English Standard, Food Technology, Fundamentals of English, Geography, History Extension, Industrial Technology, Information Processes and Technology, Legal Studies, Mathematics Extension 1 and 2, Mathematics General, Mathematics 2 Unit, Modern History, Music 1 and 2, Music Extension, PD/H/PE, Photography, Physics, Senior Science, Society and Culture, Visual Design, Textiles and Design, Visual Arts, TAFE courses and TVET courses. VET electives include Construction, Entertainment, Hospitality, Information Technology, Metals and Engineering, Primary Industries and Retail.
Sport: Exciting school carnivals lead to progress through the zone, regional and state championships in all sports. Equally, many diverse knockout teams for boys and girls are available for maximum student participation. Traditional team and individual sports are all catered for. Many school staff coach and manage at Zone, Sydney West and Combined High Schools (CHS) level. Many students have excelled at their chosen sports at the highest level at Erskine Park High School.
Extracurricular activities: These include Creative and Performing Arts evenings in Visual Arts, Dance and Drama, school musical, chess club, debating, History Mastermind, dance and drama troupes, Music ensembles, critical thinking workshop days, movie-making, student leadership days, senior peer tutoring, peer mediation, peer mentoring, Senior Leadership Development Programmes, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, Premier’s Reading Challenge, Premier’s Sporting Challenge, Student Representative Council, school band, instrument tuition, multicultural days, Tournament of Minds, Gifted and Talented (GAT) Programs.
Welfare and personal development: Student wellbeing and student welfare is proactive and innovative. Students are supported through energetic peer support and peer mediation programs and with outstanding, personable and enthusiastic year advisers. The school boasts innovative programs in boys education, an exciting girls education strategy and a gifted and talented program which unites it firmly with neighbouring primary schools and extends, challenges and inspires students.
With student welfare on a daily basis, a levels system provides a clear focus for parents, students and teachers concerning students’ rights and responsibilities and school and community expectations of a productive learning environment. Purposeful, focused lessons are the result. High expectations and thorough standards of discipline, punctuality and school uniform govern work.
A vibrant, well-recognised merit system celebrates student success weekly in the academic, cultural and sporting domains.
Parent celebration morning teas reinforce this success. The Student Representative Council (SRC), the peak forum for student leadership, provides intensive training and frequent representational opportunities for student leaders from all cohorts, including membership of peak school teams.
Special features: The school enjoys a highly supportive and involved parent group and community. Its ethos is one of collaboration, teamwork and consultation.
An ordered and inspiring atmosphere is provided, where student wellbeing and enhanced academic, cultural and sporting student outcomes are embraced and delivered. Innovative and strategic programs to engage students and enhance their spirit and involvement are at the forefront of daily class work.
Erskine Park High School possesses a wonderful tradition of high achievement, high standards and high expectations. It is a modern school which boasts an enthusiastic, committed staff whose outstanding qualifications, experiences and achievements deliver a quality classroom product each day.