Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus

Blackwattle Bay Campus is a government high school in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia. It is the senior campus of Sydney Secondary College. The school was established in 1979 as Glebe High School, with 109 students and 17 staff members, all housed in demountable classrooms. The school catered only for Year 7 in its first year. Permanent buildings were built in the early 1980s. In 2002, the school became part of Sydney Secondary College and was renamed Blackwattle Bay Campus.Since 2005, it is exclusively a senior campus catering for Years 11 and 12. This enables the school to offer one of the largest range of Higher School Certificate courses in Sydney. Unlike the junior campuses, Blackwattle Bay Campus does not have a selective stream and, upon graduating from the junior campuses, selective students are mixed with mainstream students in all classes.The campus has a sister-school relationship with Malibaca Yamato High School in East Timor, and a volunteer project in community work.AchievementsIn 2005, Fawad Qaiser became the first student to sit for a Higher School Certificate (HSC) examination using the Auslan sign language. In 2011, Chinese language teacher, Chorng Leu, was awarded a Premier’s Teacher Scholarship to undertake an international study tour.First in CourseA number of Blackwattle Bay students have been awarded first place in the state in an HSC course: