Cross curriculum content enriches and supports the learning areas and adds depth to student learning.
In NSW students study a range of learning across the curriculum content.
Cross curriculum priorities
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
- Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
- sustainability
General capabilities
- critical and creative thinking
- ethical understanding
- information and communication technology capability
- intercultural understanding
- literacy
- numeracy
- personal and social capability
Other learning across the curriculum areas
- civics and citizenship
- difference and diversity
- work and enterprise.
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Gifted and talented
At Holroyd High School students are extended in a variety of ways:
- identification of gifted and talented students
- HSC (Higher School Certificate) extension classes in mathematics, English and history
- graded classes Years 7 to 10
- peer mathematics tutoring
- mentoring.
Enrichment activities include:
- student leadership program
- university links to the University of NSW, University of Sydney and University of Western Sydney
- Discover Science programs through the Department of Education and Merck Sharpe and Doehme at the University of Western Sydney
- public speaking at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), International Women's Day and Anzac Day ceremonies
- International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) English, mathematics, science and computing
- Western Sydney Social Sciences Teachers Association (WESSSTA) geography skills competition
- OperaEd which is a behind-the-scenes look into the whole process of creating opera, from what happens in the workshop and wardrobe to bumping in the set on stage
- music and drama extension programs
- debating and chess club
- student parliamentary activities.