|
''Blessed Is The Man'' |
Acting Principal |
Mr. David Stonestreet |
Assistant Principals |
Mr. Andrew Middleton
Mr. John Myer
Mr. David Stonestreet |
School type |
Private (Parent Controlled) |
Established |
(1969) 1977 |
School Song |
Blessed Is The Man |
Location |
Barden Ridge , Sydney , NSW |
Enrollment |
750 students, K-12 |
Clubs and Societies |
- |
School Colours |
Red, White & Blue |
Website |
www.sscs.nsw.edu.au |
is a non-
Denomination al,
Protestant , Parent-Controlled
Private School for
Co-educational students located in
Sydney ,
Australia . It was founded in 1977 (Association founded in 1969) by a group of Christian parents who believed their Children were not receiving a biblical education while attending public
State School s
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The School primarily consists of one large
Campus in the southern suburb of
Barden Ridge in
Sydney , and this campus the two sections of the school:
- A High School (Years 7 to 12) and
- A Junior School (Kindergarten to Year 6).
The School Association was formally founded in
1969 by several Christian families whom believed state public schools were not offering a good enough biblical education to their children. The school officially began running in
1977 under the name Sutherland Shire Christian School and the Sutherland Shire Christian School Association Ltd was created two years later in
1979 .
School classes were housed in several locations (such as local church halls) before purchasing several hectares in the southern
New South Wales Suburb of Barden Ridge in
1981 where the school has continued to build and remained since.
''Student enrolment summary''
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Secondary Students from years 7 through to 12 learn an array of varying subjects with more elective options available to students as they progress through the grades. Subjects available for students to learn in their senior years at the school are:
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Christian Studies are also compulsory for all senior secondary school students though for
HSC students this only counts as one unit of work''
The school believes that it is important to give the junior school students, particularly students soon entering high school to be studying a variety of subjects. For this reason the junior school
Curriculum is based and structured around six specific subject areas:
# English
# Mathematics
# Science &
Technology
# Human
Society & Its Environment
# Creative & Practical
Arts
# PE, Health & Personal Development
The school has an abundance of facilities on it's campus to cater for all types of students
Needs and
Interests including a fully equipped
Gymnasium ,
Tennis &
Basketball Court s and
Cricket Net s. There are also several
Computer Lab s available for all students with ready access internet and other applications. A woodwork & metalwork room exists for students along with a
Textiles room, a home
Economics room and several fully equipped music rooms with
Recording Studio rooms and an array of musical instruments.
The school is located in the suburban area of Barden Ridge on Allies Road which is also occupied by Lucas Heights Public School. With the school based in the southern suburbs of Sydney the school has somewhat of a scenic bushland setting providing not only shade for students but also a bush
Playground for junior students.
The school has several music rooms within the school which include several
Storage rooms leading off each of these main rooms, there is also two music recording rooms where students can freely play and record their own music. The music department of the school caters for many musical interests and has many
Piano s,
Guitar s,
Xylophone s and several other instruments.
The junior and senior schools both have their own
Choir along with several
Band s that play regularly at school events and several out of school events throughout each year along with entering a variety of
Competition s.
The school also annually hosts a junior school
Performance night where musically talented students in the junior school can demonstrate their talent, the senior school has the annual 'One Night Only' performance night event which is predominately made up of a high standard of musical performances from the senior school students.
Students within the school participate both in interschool sports as well as competing against one another at both inner and out of school facilities. Sports open to students vary according to sex, age and
Availability .
Sports available solely to boys include
Rugby League ,
Rugby Union ,
Aussie Rules and
Cricket while sports solely available to girls include
Netball ,
Baseball and
Volleyball . Several other sports that are available to both sexes and only vary according to age are
Basketball ,
Soccer ,
Tennis ,
Squash ,
Cross Country and
Athletics &
Swimming which both have annual carnivals.
The school has to date produced two state championship winning teams, in
1997 the junior boys cricket team and in
2003 the senior girls soccer team. They also compete annually against local rival school Inaburra in both
Rugby ,
Cricket and
Soccer for various trophies.
Each year the school runs an annual drama performance made up of predominately older senior students and several members of drama classes throughout the school grades. The plays the school produces are usually a
Shakespearean performance the most recent being ''
As You Like It ''.
There are several extra-curricular clubs run throughout the school each year. These include a
Chess club and competition, several
Debating teams, a maths club, an
Audio-visual team, a drama club along with a junior school
Newspaper /year book titled 'Branches' and a senior year book.
In October 2000 the New South Wales government outlawed would have to cease to do so or face deregistration as a recognised school and lose all government
Funding . All schools agreed to the new move set out by the state government except Sutherland Shire Christian School and the much smaller Nambucca Valley Christian Community School.
This move by the school had many calling the school "hypocritical"
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With continuous media pressure and a lack of political support both schools finally buckled under state government pressure and agreed to outlaw caning at both schools.
In of music and movies.
He quickly began to rally students behind his cause against illegally burning copyrighted material as a practical response to a devotion given. On Monday
23 May ,
2000 illegally burnt CDs and DVDs
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- Colin Buchanan (Musician)
- Niclyn Rendall (Model)
- Naomi Merciai (Musician)
- Matt Tomlin (Musician)
