Parramatta High School

Overview

CRICOS Provider: 00588M School Profile: This school is the first and oldest coeducational secondary school in Sydney. The school’s students come from various countries. Under different cultural backgrounds, the school hopes to cultivate outstanding students who are equally outstanding, patient, and responsible. The school’s curriculum is flexible and diverse, helping students to achieve academic excellence, meeting students’ different needs, and promoting students’ all-round development. The school pursues a fair and just welfare system to provide students with a safe, happy and caring learning and living atmosphere.

Description

Parramatta High School

Year of establishment: 1913

Year opened: Year7 -Year12

School Address: Great Western Highway Parramatta NSW 2150

Total number of students: 751

School Profile:

Parramatta High School – a Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) school

Respect, responsibilty and honesty are the core values that form the foundation for learning at Parramatta High School.

Parramatta High School, established in 1913, was the first co-educational comprehensive high school in Sydney. It has a long and successful history of providing quality education. The school is proud of its cultural diversity, commitment to social justice and core values of respect, responsibility and honesty. The school is semi-selective and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity through a varied curriculum designed to challenge students and cater for a diverse range of needs, interests and abilities. As a foundation PBL school, Parramatta High School has fair and supportive welfare structures which provide a safe, happy school in a caring environment.

Geographical environment:

There are fixed bus lines near the school, large parks and sports facilities, and students can go to the public library to enrich their studies; the school is close to shopping centers and restaurants, and life is convenient; the school takes about 30 minutes by train from the center of Sydney.

School facilities:

Language laboratory; integrated audio and video system; technical workshop; basketball tennis hall, etc.

Course features:

1. English as a Second Language (ESL)

2. Selectable languages: French, Indonesian, Mandarin

3. Featured activities:

Creative art;

Human society and its environments

Languages;

Mathematics;

Personal development, health and physical education;

Science

Technological and applied studies;

Religion and Ethics;

Learning across the curriculum;

Sport;

Academic competition

Football, basketball, track and field, swimming, etc.;

Rock dance group;

Lead the project;

Debate and speech projects;

Vocational courses

Talent training program;

Computer course

Chess clubs, etc.

4. Student Service Center: gender education strategy; community service; literacy course; 7th grade tutoring; cultural difference project

5. HSC test results: 10 students have ATAR scores higher than 90;

Retrieved from https://parramatta-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/