Talk:Sefton High School

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Sefton High School is an Academically enriched school which strives for success. There school 'Moto' being Sincerity Scholarship and Service. It is a great school to go to have high educated teachers and students willing to learn. Sefton has the highest HSC marks in its category and are up there with fully selective schools. Sefton strives for sucess not only academically but sportingly with Cross country, Gala days, athletics and swimming carnivals and sports of your choice to join. There are also peer support activities for year sevens to get to know each other. It really is a great school in all fields.

Background Information Sefton High School Sefton High School was established in 1962. It now draws half its students from the local community and half are selected on the basis of academic performance as determined by the Selective Schools Unit's testing. The majority of students come from non-English speaking backgrounds. The school has an excellent reputation as a result of its Higher School Certificate results. It offers a range of opportunities in the academic, sporting, cultural and citizenship areas. Sefton High School is committed to developing a safe learning environment which nurtures and guides each individual as they pursue their personal best, enabling them to make a positive contribution to our society. We strive to foster happy, confident, considerate individuals by promoting active involvement in learning so that they value this as a lifelong process.We create structures whereby individual learning and welfare needs determine what happens in our school.

School Moto The school moto as stated above is Sincerty, Scholarship and Service. Which means Genuineness, honesty, and freedom from duplicity. The methods, discipline, and attainments of a scholar or scholars. Knowledge resulting from study and research in a particular field. Ready to help or be of use.

Departments The school has twelve academic departments, each teaching one or a variety of related Board of Studies endorsed subjects. The departments are:

English (Subjects: English, Drama) Mathematics (Subjects: Mathematics) Science (Subjects: Science, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Earth and Environmental Science) Creative Arts (Subjects: Visual Arts, Photography and Digital Design, Visual Design) Music (Subjects: Music) Social Sciences (Subjects: Social Science, Geography, Commerce, Business Studies, Legal Studies, Economics, Society and Culture) Languages other than English (Subjects: French, German, Japanese, Latin) Personal development (Subjects: Personal Development Health and Physical Education, Sports Science) Industrial arts (Subjects: Design & Technology, Technical Drawing, Computer Studies, Engineering Studies, Software Design, IPT, Industrial Technology) Home Economics (Subjects: Food Technology, Textiles and Design, Early Childhood) History (Subjects: History, Ancient History, Modern History) Careers (Subjects: Careers)

Students Students at Sefton are always learning and having fun.

Traditions section
A variety of users from anonymous IP addresses keep trying to add sections on the Year 12 concert in general and the year 12 concerts performed by particular school classes. This material is clearly unencyclopedic: it is trivia, written in a highly informal tone, is not written from a neutral point of view and is unverifiable. Please do not continue to add this material. Thanks, Gwernol 12:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC)


 * It is written from a neutral point of view. If it is informal, you fix the tone yourself - not delete the entire entry. Deleting the entry obviously removes an aspect of the page, thus making it biased. The neutrality of the issue cannot be discussed, and thats what makes it encyclopedic.


 * If material like this is removed, then other material from other schools sites that quote "best performing school in the state" should also be removed, as they are derived from a moreso unneutral point of view (biased).


 * Please remove the ban and let changes be made, unless you actually attended the school, i see no reason how you can discuss the neutrality of an in school issue. Blah^2 03:14, 15 October 2006 (UTC)blah^2


 * No, the issue is not the tone, it is the content. Wikipedia is not a forum for school gossip, it is an encyclopedia. I will not unlock the article while there is a risk of this information being added back. Gwernol 03:18, 15 October 2006 (UTC)


 * It is telling that User:Blah^2 considers that this issue is "an inschool issue" can only be discussed by people who "attended the schoo[sic]". If it is something that can *only* be discussed/edited by students of the school, then it is by its nature unencyclopaedic for failing the notability criterion. --Sumple (Talk) 03:43, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

i agree with gwernol - this needs to be in a neutral tone. concerts, fetes and shuffles and any mention of trivial events are reserved for yearbooks and in class note passing - not an encyclopedia which allows anyone to view it, relying on information to be accurate.

Hey gwernol, where do you live mate.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Doublefuzz (talk • contribs) 04:52, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Motto
Motto: Sincerity, Scholarship, Service (a.k.a. SSS - side, side, side (trigonometric shorthand))

Can someone remove that? 12:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

this is a play at the school motto, probably derived from the emphasis of Maths which most students follow. it is trivial, a mere joke and should not tarnish the tradition of a school motto. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doublefuzz (talk • contribs) 04:50, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

HSC
The statement "Sefton High School consistently receives the highest HSC result among partially selective schools" is excessively unsourced, to the point that I highly suspect there is readily available information to easily proove otherwise.

Due to the highly declarative nature of the statement, and the aforementioned lack of sources, the statement will be subject to immediate deletion, in accordance with Wikipedia policy, until reliable documentation has been provided to suggest otherwise. Jason McConnell-Leech 08:19, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

wtf.... sefton is the highest ranking partially-selective school..

don't u know how to use google you tool.

there are a lot of accusations aimed at this school, and most of it is unsourced including stating that the school fails to reach the standard of English etc. Sefton being the highest ranking partially-selective school needs a source that verifies this claim.

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Sentence about the wrong school
The last sentence in "History" is incorrect:

"Many of its first students were "New Australians" who had recently arrived from the United Kingdom and who were living in nearby Villawood."

That sentence applies to Chester Hill High School, which is also mentioned in this paragraph. Look it up in Google Maps. The "Villawood" in question is now the Villawood Detention Centre - right next to CHHS, and about 4 kilometres from SHS. I attended CHHS and had friends in SHS so have some claim to subject matter expert :) Old_Wombat (talk) 10:42, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

✅ Also removed that photo, which seemed to be a demonstration of a bit of egoism on the part of some students.  ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 12:05, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

cleanup
I cleaned up the article a little bit, there were a number of comments throwing pointless shade at Chester Hill high school as well as a number of opinionated remarks and numerous grammatical errors. Embarrassing. kermitron - 17 May 2019