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James Cook Boys Technology High School
James Cook Boys Technology High School has small class sizes and encourages student contact with teachers and support staff. The school is committed to providing quality education through a wide range of academic, sporting, and welfare programs. In 2001, the school was awarded the Director-General of Education School Achievement Award for Excellence in Boys’ Education. School programs seek to provide a learning environment that encourages success and supports students from all different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds to help them achieve their best. In 2002, the school was praised by The Australian newspaper as one of the top 10 schools in Australia for its student welfare program. Higher School Certificate results have been outstanding and several of our students were listed in the honours pages for the 2002 HSC.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
- Special ESL programs are taught throughout the school, at all levels, by experienced and caring staff.
- The ESL coordinator runs programs specifically for international students in
Years 9 to 12.
Languages Taught
- Mandarin, Italian, French, Modern
Greek, and German
Special Programs
- Extensive leadership and participation programs
- Gifted and talented students’ program in every year
- Instrumental music both as an elective and also as private lessons, a band and a number of smaller performing groups
- Extended curriculum in the senior school
- Interschool and intraschool sporting competitions
- Interschool debating and public speaking competitions
- School theatre production, multicultural festival, arts festival, and an art exhibition
- Computer classes in every year
- Multimedia and information technology
- An outstanding program for students known as Machismo that won state
awards in Australia for its innovation and excellence - Programs for extension and acceleration in both the junior and senior school
- Talented athlete programs in the junior school
Student Support Service and Programs
- Two coordinators oversee student welfare at each level
- Full-time student welfare coordinator
- Part-time social worker and psychologist
- Careers resource centre
- Student Representative Council
- Student mediators
Special Facilities
- Well-equipped science and technology laboratories
- Four computer laboratories with Internet access
- Well-equipped library with Internet access
- Learning extension centre
- Performing arts and drama centre
- Art centre with graphics, photography, and darkroom facilities
- Instrumental music centre, with computer room attached for recording, mixing, and writing music
- Multipurpose sports complex incorporating basketball, netball, volleyball, badminton, gymnastics, four tennis courts, and three squash courts
- Extensive ovals and well-maintained grounds and gardens
- Specialist Year 7 area incorporating home rooms
HSC Results and Year 12 University/ TAFE Placement In 2003:
- James Cook Boys Technology High School, along with Moorefield Girls High School, were the top performing comprehensive schools in the St George area for the HSC.
- 80% of students gained offers to university or TAFE.
- 95% of Year 12 students were either employed or entered further education institutions at the end of the year.
- Overseas students performed extremely well at the HSC.
Features of Local Area
- Kogarah is a cosmopolitan and multicultural suburb 10kms (20 minutes by train) south of the centre of Sydney.
- It is close to a major shopping centre, Botany Bay, and the international airport.
James Cook Boys Technology HighSchool was one of the leading boys’schools for results for the HSC inextension mathematics with 25% ofstudents scoring in the top percentile.
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