Picnic Point High School
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Picnic Point High School is a government high school located in the suburb of Picnic Point, New South Wales
, Australia
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The school has approximately 1000 students in Years 7 to 12. It prepares students for the School Certificate
in Year 10 and the Higher School Certificate in Year 12. The school will be celebrating its 50th anniversary on Saturday 31 March 2012.
Picnic Point, New South Wales
Picnic Point, a suburb of local government area City of Bankstown, is located 23 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is a part of South-western Sydney region...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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The school has approximately 1000 students in Years 7 to 12. It prepares students for the School Certificate
School Certificate
The School Certificate was a qualification issued by the Board of Studies, New South Wales, typically at the end of Year 10. The successful completion of the School Certificate is a requirement for completion of the Higher School Certificate...
in Year 10 and the Higher School Certificate in Year 12. The school will be celebrating its 50th anniversary on Saturday 31 March 2012.
Notable students and ex-students
- Jack Bennett, Australian and Oceania track cycling champion
- Lachlan Burr, Australia Schoolboy rugby league team
- Blake Guthrie, Sydney SwansSydney SwansThe Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...
scholarship player - Jarrad HickeyJarrad HickeyJarrad Hickey is a rugby league player for Harlequins RL in the European Super League.Previously with Canterbury Bulldogs he played several games for the club in 2006 off the bench. He is eligible for Ireland. Hickey has been given the nickname OAF, Hickman and Luva by Bulldogs supporters.He used...
, rugby player with Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs - Cameron PhelpsCameron PhelpsCameron Phelps is an Australian rugby league player for Hull in the European Super League competition...
, rugby player with Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Wigan WarriorsWigan WarriorsWigan Warriors is an English rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club's first team squad competes in the engage Super League and the team are the current Challenge Cup holders as of the 27th August 2011.... - Shaun Rennie, international lead role in CatsCats (musical)Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...
- Amanda Tunks, singer
Notable staff and ex-staff
- Alan Ashton, member of the New South Wales Legislative AssemblyNew South Wales Legislative AssemblyThe Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...
- Kirsty Elwell, country music singer
- Ted GlossopTed GlossopTed Glossop was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the St. George Dragons then went on to become a first-grade coach with Cronulla-Sutherland, Canterbury-Bankstown and St. George....
, coach of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs rugby league team - John MurrayJohn Murray (New South Wales politician)John Henry Murray is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2003, representing the electorate of Drummoyne...
, Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative AssemblySpeaker of the New South Wales Legislative AssemblyThe Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly, New South Wales's lower chamber of Parliament. The current Speaker is Shelley Hancock, who was elected on 3 May 2011...