Alexandria Park Community School

Alexandria Park Community School
Community, Opportunity, Success
Location
Alexandria, New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	33°54′03″S 151°11′47″E / 33.90083°S 151.19639°E / -33.90083; 151.19639Coordinates: 33°54′03″S 151°11′47″E / 33.90083°S 151.19639°E / -33.90083; 151.19639
Information
Type	Public, Partially Selective & Comprehensive, Coeducational Secondary School & Primary School
Established	2003
Principal	Diane Fetherston
Deputy Principals	Glen Kingsley & Julie Myers
Staff	~49
Grades	K-12
Enrolment	~550
Website	Alexandria Park Community School

Alexandria Park Community School (APCS) is a dual campus, partially selective, co-educational Kindergarten to Year 12 School. The school has an innovative junior (K-4), middle (5-7) and senior (8-12) school structure with Opportunity Classes in Year 5 and Year 6 as well as a selective stream in Year 7 to Year 12 for academically gifted and talented students. The Junior Campus (K-7) is located at Park Road and the Senior Campus (8-12) on Mitchell Rd Alexandria. The school has many and varied extra-curricular activities including a junior and senior choir, school band, gym club, Interact (Rotary) Club and after school sports program. There is a Community Centre operating within the school delivering and co-ordinating a community garden and a variety of Pre-School and Parent/Family programs for families with children aged 0 to 5 years including supported playgroups with strong partnerships with the local community, business groups and community organisations.

In 2012, students at Alexandria Park Community School's achieved results in the Higher School Certificate that placed the school in the top 100 secondary schools in NSW for the first time, with a rank of 66, improving from number 584 in 2011.^[1]

Significant Programs and Initiatives

Bridging the Gap between the Digital and Social Divide project (every student Kindergarten to Year 12 has access to a laptop computer for learning)
Positive Behaviour for Learning program (PBL)
Student Engagement and Retention program (SEARS)
Kindergarten Transitional Playgroup
Gifted and Talented initiatives
Alexandria Park Community Centre
Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) in partnership with Sydney University.
National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy (NASCA) providing opportunity for students and the community to excel in sport and a pathway to greater success in education, employment and career development.
Vocational Education opportunities through school based traineeships
Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Park Rd Studio: Artist in Residence project in conjunction with the NCIE and Carriageworks

Selective & OC

While the school provides for gifted and talented students throughout the school as part of its alignment with department wide policy and practice, it also provides places in selective and OC classes designed to cater specifically to highly gifted students.

The senior school at Alexandria Park Community School is partially selective, and offers selective places to candidate students who perform well in the statewide examination undertaken in Year 6.

The junior school also has OC (Opportunity Class) places, in a class for gifted and talented pupils in years 5 and 6. Students wishing to enter these classes must participate in an examination and placement process that usually begins in Year 4.^[2]

History

The school was formed after the amalgamation of Redfern Public School, Waterloo Public School, Alexandria Public School and Cleveland Street High School. The Cleveland Street High School was formerly located on Cleveland Street in Surry Hills prior to its move to the current Alexandria Park School site in 1977. The Cleveland Street site became an annex to the school specialising in intensive English education

Parents & Community

The school has an active P&C committee that meet on the last Wednesday of each month.

Other Services on Site

Alexandria Park Community Centre incorporating community garden, toy library, clothing exchange, supported playgroups, food co-op and music & movement classes for pre-schoolers.
Camp Australia After School Care Program
CityEast Community College
NSW Department of Health Early Childhood Health Centre
Red Cross Breakfast Club
Aboriginal Education Council (AEC)
The Smith Family

Notes and references

↑ "Top Schools 2012" (PDF). Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
↑ http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/learning/k-6assessments/ocplacement.php

External links

Selective schools of New South Wales, Australia

Fully selective	Baulkham Hills High School Caringbah High School Fort Street High School Girraween High School Gosford High School Hornsby Girls' High School Merewether High School Normanhurst Boys' High School North Sydney Boys High School North Sydney Girls High School NBSC: Manly Selective Campus Penrith High School Smith's Hill High School St George Girls High School Sydney Boys High School Sydney Girls High School Sydney Technical High School

Partially selective	Alexandria Park Community School Blacktown Boys High School Blacktown Girls High School Bonnyrigg High School Chatswood High School Duval High School Elizabeth Macarthur High School Gorokan High School Grafton High School Karabar High School Kooringal High School Macquarie Fields High School Moorebank High School Parramatta High School Peel High School Prairiewood High School Rose Bay Secondary College Ryde Secondary College Sefton High School St Marys Senior High School Sydney Secondary College Tempe High School

Selective agricultural	Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School Hurlstone Agricultural High School James Ruse Agricultural High School Yanco Agricultural High School

High schools in the Sydney Region

Botany Bay Network	Randwick Boys HS Randwick Girls HS Matraville Sports HS South Sydney HS

Georges River Network	Blakehurst HS Georges River College (with Oatley Senior Campus Hurstville Boys Campus Peakhurst Campus Penshurst Girls Campus) James Cook Boys Tech. HS Kogarah HS Moorefield Girls HS St George Girls HS Sydney Tech. HS

Inner City Network	Alexandria Park Community School Dulwich HS of Visual Arts and Design Newtown HS of the Performing Arts Tempe HS

Inner West Network	Ashfield Boys HS Burwood Girls HS Canterbury Boys HS Canterbury Girls HS Kingsgrove North HS

Port Hacking Network	Cronulla HS Kirrawee HS Endeavour Sports HS Port Hacking HS Sylvania HS Woolooware HS

Port Jackson Network	Conservatorium Sydney Boys HS Sydney Girls HS Sydney Secondary College (with Balmain Campus Blackwattle Bay Campus Leichhardt Campus)

Woronora River Network	Engadine HS Heathcote HS The Jannali HS Lucas Heights Community School Menai HS

Network 8	Fort Street HS Gymea HS JJ Cahill Memorial HS Kingsgrove HS Marrickville HS Rose Bay SC

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