Erskine Park High School

School Introduction

Government co-educational, day

Profile Facilities Elective Subjects Sport & Extracurricular Activities Welfare Special Features

Profile: Erskine Park High School is the outstanding choice of school for every parent in our area of Western Sydney. We offer 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’ sets it apart as 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 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 band instruments, basketball courts, cricket nets. The school is air-conditioned in many spaces.

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, Visual Arts.

Electives Years 11 and 12: These include Ancient History, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Community and Family Studies, Construction (VET), Earth and Environmental Science, Economics, English Extension 2, English Extension 1, English Advanced, English Standard, Entertainment (VET), Food Technology, Geography, Hospitality (VET), Industrial Technology, Information Processes and Technology, Information Technology (VET), Legal Studies, Mathematics Extension 2, Mathematics Extension 1, Mathematics General, Mathematics 2 Unit, Metals and Engineering (VET), Modern History, Music, PD/H/PE, Photography, Physics, Primary Industries (VET), Retail (VET), Senior Science, Society and Culture, TAFE courses, TVET courses, Textiles and Design, Visual Arts.

Sport: Students participate in competitive weekly sporting contests across winter and summer against neighbouring schools in the area. 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 at Zone and Sydney West level, while inter school competitions add to the sporting opportunities for all students. Many students have excelled at their chosen sports at the highest level at Erskine Park High School.

Extra Curricular 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; Premier’s Reading Challenge; Student Representative Council; school band; instrument tuition; multicultural days; Tournament of Minds; Gifted and Talented (GAT) programmes.

Welfare and Personal Development: Student well being and student welfare is proactive and innovative. We support our students through energetic peer support and peer mediation programmes and with outstanding, personable and enthusiastic Year Advisers. We boast innovative programmes in boys education, an exciting girls education strategy and a gifted and talented programme which unites us firmly with our neighbouring primary schools and extends, challenges and inspires our 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 our 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), our 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: Our school enjoys a highly supportive and involved parent group and community. Our ethos is one of collaboration, teamwork and consultation. We provide an ordered and inspiring atmosphere where student well being and enhanced academic, cultural and sporting student outcomes are embraced and delivered. Innovative and strategic programmes to engage our students and enhance their spirit and involvement are at the forefront of our daily work.

Erskine Park High School possesses a wonderful tradition of high achievement, high standards and high expectations. We are a modern school which boasts an enthusiastic, committed staff whose outstanding qualifications, experiences and achievements deliver a quality classroom product each day.

Enrolment: 1000 students

Principal: Tim McCallum (BA Dip.Ed MACQ., MEd (Admin) UNSW)