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December 15, 2011
Strathfield's best and brightest among HSC achievers

Strathfield’s best and brightest received their HSC results this week – and many of our top schools were represented in the all round achievers’ list for 2011.

Strathfield’s best and brightest received their HSC results this week – and many of our top schools were represented in the all round achievers’ list for 2011.

Girls scored particularly well, receiving two thirds of the first-in-course positions. The split between public school and private school students was about 50-50, according to Board of Studies president Tom Alegounarias.

Boys, however, topped the table in highest tertiary rankings - of the 49 who achieved 99.95 , 30 were boys.

October 8, 2010
Success adds up for our students

PLC Sydney and Meriden students strive for the best

STUDENTS at local schools – PLC Sydney in Croydon and Meriden School in Strathfield – have excelled in two vastly different fields of endeavour: mathematics and snow skiing.

A total of 56 students at Meriden School have performed with distinction in a state-wide mathematics competition, while a team of 16 students from PLC Sydney has won the 2010 Subaru Australian Interschools SnowSports Championships.

July 14, 2010
School scoops sustainability awards

Achievements of local schools in sustainable living recognised

A SENSORY Garden, an organic vegetable patch, a rain water tank and water wise taps are among the achievements recognised by the Strathfield Council’s first Sustainable Living Awards.

June 1, 2010
How Erin is creating a Ti Tree change

Indigenous students from a small NT town are living and learning in Strathfield

A Strathfield primary school teacher has founded a scholarship program offering Aboriginal students from the Northern Territory an urban education in some of the inner west’s best schools.

Erin Greenhalgh, 27, a Year 3 teacher at Trinity College, came up with the idea for the Ngurra Jirrima project in 2007 after a teaching stint in the remote Aboriginal community of Ti Tree, 200 kilometres from Alice Springs, on the edge of the Tanami Desert.