Riverstone High School
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Riverstone High School, is a co-educational
, comprehensive
high school
located on the northwest fringes of Sydney
, New South Wales
, Australia
.
Riverstone High School was established in January 1962 at 71 McCulloch Street, Riverstone
. The school has been recognised in the past for academic achievement and produced some outstanding students. The school is well known for its sporting success, particularly in football, hockey
, netball
, swimming
, and athletics. The school also has a strong focus on literacy
, technology
, and talented students.
In 1999, the school joined the Nirimba Collegiate, which also includes nearby Quakers Hill High School
, Seven Hills High School, and Wyndham College
. Riverstone operates from Year 7 through 10. Senior schooling, Years 11-12 are completed at Wyndham College. In 1979-80, 970 students attended the school from year 7 to 12.
The school emblem is an oval with a navy surround. The centre is light blue with a red kangaroo
. The school's motto, "Sincere & True", is printed on a red boomerang. For many years students proudly wore the school badge. The school's mission is "to provide a positive and stimulating environment which values and fosters: the involvement of parents and care-givers in students' education; teaching and learning that is enjoyable, challenging, rewarding and lifelong; mutual respect, responsibility and individuality; striving by staff and students to achieve potential; self esteem and self confidence through participation in academic, cultural, sporting, and social pursuits; and an appreciation of our physical environment."
The school auditorium was constructed in the early 1970s and opened in 1975. It was named the Jack Lang Auditorium in honour of the Labour politician John Thomas 'Jack' Lang
, who lived at nearby Schofields for the last years of his life.
The school has a Support Unit catering for students with mild and moderate intellectual disability. The full range of students' abilities are catered for with a wide variety of programs including extension and remediation programs.
It is often referred to as "Rivo" by students and local community.
Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...
, comprehensive
Comprehensive high school
Comprehensive high schools are the most common form of public high schools in the United States and are meant to serve the needs of all students, as compared to the common practice in other nations in which examinations are used to sort students into different high schools for different populations...
high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located on the northwest fringes of Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Riverstone High School was established in January 1962 at 71 McCulloch Street, Riverstone
Riverstone, New South Wales
Riverstone is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Riverstone is located 48 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown. Riverstone is part of the Greater Western Sydney region...
. The school has been recognised in the past for academic achievement and produced some outstanding students. The school is well known for its sporting success, particularly in football, hockey
Hockey
Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
, netball
Netball
Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, and athletics. The school also has a strong focus on literacy
Literacy
Literacy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material.Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print...
, technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
, and talented students.
In 1999, the school joined the Nirimba Collegiate, which also includes nearby Quakers Hill High School
Quakers Hill High School
Quakers Hill High School is a school in the Quakers Hill/Parklea area in New South Wales, Australia. The school was built in the year 1993.-Notable alum:...
, Seven Hills High School, and Wyndham College
Wyndham College
Wyndham College is a government senior secondary school located at Quakers Hill, New South Wales, Australia.Established in 1999, its intake of students comes from three surrounding high schools, namely Quakers Hill High School, Riverstone High School, and Seven Hills High School. They, with Wyndham...
. Riverstone operates from Year 7 through 10. Senior schooling, Years 11-12 are completed at Wyndham College. In 1979-80, 970 students attended the school from year 7 to 12.
The school emblem is an oval with a navy surround. The centre is light blue with a red kangaroo
Kangaroo
A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae . In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, Red Kangaroo, Antilopine Kangaroo, Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Western Grey Kangaroo. Kangaroos are endemic to the country...
. The school's motto, "Sincere & True", is printed on a red boomerang. For many years students proudly wore the school badge. The school's mission is "to provide a positive and stimulating environment which values and fosters: the involvement of parents and care-givers in students' education; teaching and learning that is enjoyable, challenging, rewarding and lifelong; mutual respect, responsibility and individuality; striving by staff and students to achieve potential; self esteem and self confidence through participation in academic, cultural, sporting, and social pursuits; and an appreciation of our physical environment."
The school auditorium was constructed in the early 1970s and opened in 1975. It was named the Jack Lang Auditorium in honour of the Labour politician John Thomas 'Jack' Lang
Jack Lang (Australian politician)
John Thomas Lang , usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms...
, who lived at nearby Schofields for the last years of his life.
The school has a Support Unit catering for students with mild and moderate intellectual disability. The full range of students' abilities are catered for with a wide variety of programs including extension and remediation programs.
It is often referred to as "Rivo" by students and local community.