The English faculty run a variety of competitions throughout the year.
Debating and Public Speaking
Teams are selected and go to coaching clinics. They have opportunities to compete in the western Sydney regional competitions, premiers debating challenge and the collegiate debating challenge against other schools in the area.
English Competition
Run by Educational Assessment Australia (a partner with UNSW). It is an international competition to test students reading, writing and spelling skills.
Write 4 Fun
is a unique site that showcases some of the finest young writing talent in the world today. There are great stories and poems to read and share with friends, the chance to enter contests to win great prizes and tons of information on getting published.
Premier's Reading Challenge
The Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) is available for all NSW students in Kindergarten–Year 9, in government, independent, Catholic and home schools. Participation by schools and students is voluntary.
The Challenge aims to encourage in students a love of reading for leisure and pleasure, and to enable students to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.
The Premier's Reading Challenge is an initiative of the NSW State government with principal support from the Dymocks Literacy Foundation and OPSM and media partner, The Sun-Herald.
Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Award
The Awards aim to inspire students to express their thoughts creatively through poetry and, by doing so, support the legacy of Dorothea Mackellar and her legendary poem 'My Country'.
