Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus
The Blackwattle Bay Campus of the Sydney Secondary College is a government-funded co-educational dual modality partially academically selective and comprehensive senior secondary day school, located in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Glebe, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia. Despite students in selective classes from Balmain and Leichhardt, the school technically isn't "partially selective", as there are no selective-dedicated senior classes.
Established in 1979 as Glebe High School, the campus caters for approximately 650 students in Year 11 and Year 12. Since 2005, the campus has served exclusively as the senior school of the Sydney Secondary College and its two junior campuses are the Balmain Campus and Leichhardt Campus.
History
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. Student enrolments increased significantly when the school was transformed into a senior campus.The campus has a sister-school relationship with Malibaca Yamato High School in East Timor, and a volunteer project in community work.
Achievements
In 2005, Fawad Qaiser became the first student to sit for a Higher School Certificate examination using Auslan, the Australian sign language. In 2011, Chinese language teacher, Chorng Leu, was awarded a Premier’s Teacher Scholarship to undertake an international study tour. In 2012, local resident Robert Brand, his son Jason Brand, together with students from Leichhardt Public School and the senior students at the Blackwattle Bay Campus, launched and tracked a balloon into near space as a science project. The balloon reached approximately before it burst.First in Course
A number of Blackwattle Bay students have been awarded first place in the state in an HSC course:| Year | Name | Course | Reference |
| 2010 | Damian Spinks | Chinese Beginners | |
| 2008 | Shifra Waks | Chinese Beginners French Beginners | |
| 2006 | Lily Ng | Japanese Beginners | |
| 2005 | Yi Wen Zhang | Chinese Background Speakers | |
| 2004 | Chrissie Lukas | Chinese Beginners | |
| 2002 | Andrew Hammett | Information Technology | |
| 2001 | Natalia Wiguno | Chinese Beginners |
Sports
The school has sports that are compulsory for all year 11 students, including rowing which can be done in the morning or afternoon. Blackwattle Bay is on the waterfront, and accordingly offers both rowing and kayaking as sporting options, a unique feature of the sporting curriculum that sets it apart from other urban Sydney high schools. A wide range of sports are available at Blackwattle Bay Campus. A student has the choice to participate in badminton, soccer, basketball, netball, baseball, football, table tennis, fitness walking, tennis, rockclimbing, boxing, swimming or softball.Students with disabilities participate in an annual state athletics carnival that can lead to selection in the Australian team for the Paralympic Games.