Westfields Sports is Australia’s first sports high school, catering for the educational and sporting needs of talented athletes in the context of an outstanding comprehensive high school. Westfields Sports provides each student with unique educational opportunities and quality resources essential for the achievement of personal excellence in scholarship, citizenship, sport and the arts.
Facilities: Indoor sports stadium, purpose-built gymnastics facility, cricket training nets, hockey turf, synthetic athletics runway, throws cage, ovals, dance studios, tennis courts, strength and conditioning room, sports medicine and physiotherapy clinic, well-resourced computer and multimedia rooms, specialist subject rooms, well-equipped high technology library and three school buses.
Electives Years 7 to 10: In addition to English, Mathematics, Science, Geography, History and PD/H/PE, the school offers courses in Accelerated English, Mathematics and Science, Applied Sport, Commerce, Dance, Digital Media, Drama, Food Technology, Graphics Technology, Industrial Technology, Information and Software Technology, International Studies, Italian, Japanese, Music, Physical Activity and Sport Studies, Spanish, Technology Mandatory, Textile Technology and Visual Arts.
Electives Years 11 and 12: Westfields Sports offers courses in Ancient and Modern History, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Community & Family Studies, Dance, Design & Technology, Drama, Economics, Engineering Science, English (Standard, Advanced, Extension 1 & 2), Food Technology, Geography, General Science, Hospitality, Information Processes & Technology, Industrial Technology (Furniture & Multimedia), Italian, Japanese, Legal Studies, Mathematics (Standard, Advanced, Extension 1 & 2), Music, PDHPE, Physics, Photography, Psychology, Retail Studies, Spanish, Sport, Life and Recreation, Textiles & Design, Visual Arts and an extensive range of vocational courses.
Sport: Westfields Sports High School provides opportunities for talented athletes to train and compete under highly experienced coaches in excellent facilities. Sports include athletics, baseball, basketball, cricket, dance, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, netball, rugby league, rugby union, softball, swimming, tennis and volleyball. In 2006, five Westfields Sports graduates represented Australia in the Commonwealth Games with Dani Samuels and Fabrice Lapierre winning bronze medals.
Harry Kewell, Jason Culina and Michael Beauchamp were Socceroo teammates for Australia in the World Cup and Jarryd Hayne and Israel Folau (Australia), Krisnan Inu and Dene Halatau (New Zealand) were part of the Centenary Test between these two nations in 2007.
Many Westfields graduates compete in the A-League and National Rugby League and a number are regular competitors at Telstra Grand Prix Athletics events. In 2008, six Westfields Sports graduates represented Australia in the Olympic Games.
Extracurricular activities: Choir, bands, dance, drama, debating and public speaking, student leadership, Saturday school, holiday tutorials.
Welfare and personal development: The student welfare policy focuses on the recognition and the reward of positive effort and achievement. Such is the strength of this program that the school received the Director General’s Award for Student Welfare.
Famous ex-students: Professor Dennis Evans, William Devenish, Harry Kewell, Jason Culina, Michael Beauchamp, Heather Garriock, Luke O’Donnell, Israel Folau, Jarryd Hayne, Isaac Luke, Krisnan Inu, Dene Halatau, Michael Clarke, The Hon Joe Tripodi MLA and The Hon Richard Amery MLA.