James Cook Boys' Technology High School is a boys' school situated on Princes Highway in Kogarah, Australia.

History

James Cook was founded in 1957 after Moorefield racecourse was demolished and the ground was divided into housing development and two schools: Moorefield Girls High School and James Cook Boys Technology High School, and St George TAFE. James Cook had an opportunity to become a Sports High School but decided to become a Technology High School. Queen Elizabeth II visited the school in 1970 (the bicentennial year of Australia's discovery by James Cook) along with her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....

 and Anne, Princess Royal

Anne, Princess Royal

Princess Anne, Princess Royal , is the only daughter of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...

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Students

James Cook Boys' Technology High School is committed to providing quality education through a wide range of academic, sporting and welfare programs. This institution offers a learning environment that encourages success by supporting students from all cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. As a measure of this approach the James Cook Boys' Technology High School was awarded the "Director-General of Education School Achievement Award for Excellence in Boys' Education"http://web1.jamescookb-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/JamesCook/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=114&Itemid=76

Staff

The staff at James Cook Boys' High School look forward to developing a positive and productive relationship with international students. The aim is to help these young men achieve their goals and aspirations. This collaboration results in the majority of students successfully communicating in English. http://web1.jamescookb-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/JamesCook/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=114&Itemid=76
The school captain is now Vonniel Ola-Roberts and Clarenz Lopez

Faculties

Faculty	HSC Subjects
Creative Arts	Music, Visual Arts
English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	Drama, English (Standard & Advanced), English Extensions 1 & 2
History History History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...	Ancient History, Modern History
Languages	German
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...	General Mathematics, Mathematics (2 Unit Advanced + Extensions 1 & 2)
PD/Health/PE	Personal Development/Health/Physical Education
Science Science Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...	Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Social Science	Business Studies, Economics, Geography, Legal Studies
Industrial Arts Industrial arts Industrial Arts is an umbrella term originally conceived in the late 19th century to describe educational programs which featured fabrication of objects in wood and/or metal using a variety of hand, power, or machine tools...  & Computing Studies	Engineering Studies, Information Processes & Technology, Software Design & Development

Sport

James Cook Boys has very strong teams in a variety of sports. They are always in the top 2 in the St George Sports Association behind Sydney Tech. But comparing the ratio of students to overall points James Cook is by far the number one in the St George Sports Association. They participate in the following sports:

Regular Summer Grade Sports: Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

, Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, Squash

Squash (sport)

Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...

, Table Tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

, Touch Football

Touch football (rugby league)

Touch is a field sport also known as Touch Football, or in some countries as Touch Rugby. Touch is overseen worldwide by the Federation of International Touch . Touch has traditionally been played in Australia and New Zealand but the sport has expanded internationally and features many regional and...

, Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, Mini Soccer

Regular Winter Grade Sports: Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, Rugby League

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

, Soccer, Softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

, Table Tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

, Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

, Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

Regular Non-Grade Activities: Fitness

Physical fitness

Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness , and specific fitness...

, Senior Rec and Action Sports both including Soccer, Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, Table Tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

, Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

, Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, Touch Football

Touch football (rugby league)

Touch is a field sport also known as Touch Football, or in some countries as Touch Rugby. Touch is overseen worldwide by the Federation of International Touch . Touch has traditionally been played in Australia and New Zealand but the sport has expanded internationally and features many regional and...

 And Special School.

Prefects

Prior to 2009, 12 prefects were elected from the year 12 group each year. The School Captain

School Captain

School Captain is a student appointed or elected to represent the school.This student, usually in the senior year, in their final year of attending that school...

, two Vice-Captains were selected from the 12 prefects elected after they had presented their speech. There are five year 11 Prefects.

There are also 3 junior SRC members from each year from year 8 till year 10.

The prefects have meetings on every second Tuesdays at lunch. In recent times the role of the greater prefect body has been rather limited, although the school captain and vice captain have many duties, including the captain's duty to run the weekly school assemblies. All prefects that are not part of the Prefect executives do canteen duty during recess and lunchtimes as well as toilet duty(locking and unlocking toilets.

Associated schools

Moorefield Girls High School is considered to be the female counterpart or 'sister school' of James Cook Boys Highschool, and has recently engaged in Prefect activities to organise a joint multicultural day. They are also thinking of other ways to make the two schools become engaged with other activities in the near future.