Epping Boys High School aims to engage all boys and build fine men over the six years at the school. Students are provided with the opportunity to achieve high academic outcomes and engage in a wide range of co-curricular activities. All boys are encouraged to strive to achieve their highest potential by participating in activities that foster their gifts and talents and enhance a sense of responsibility. Epping Boys provides a strong academic education, resulting in above state results in state-wide literacy and numeracy assessments. The School Certificate and HSC results are consistently above the state average in most subject areas. Many of our top students achieve very high results in the HSC.
Over the next three years Epping Boys is implementing a “Boys to Men” program that will engage boys in their learning and promote wellbeing.
Epping Boys accommodates a significant number of students from overseas, including exchange students. It is well able to cope with students from non-English-speaking backgrounds (NESB). Based on academic results at the HSC, the school is recognised as one of the leading comprehensive boys’ high schools in Sydney. It is in the top 200 schools list (125th in 2008).
Facilities: The school has a refurbished library, an assembly hall (seating 600), a dedicated examination centre —- specially designed to accommodate 200 desks and chairs; sports fields, basketball courts, tennis courts and a gymnasium with a rock-climbing wall. The school has six computer labs, as well as technology centres in art, science, history and social sciences with smart boards, data projectors and a video-conferencing-connected classroom. Internet and intranet access is available in every classroom through the use of wireless technology.
Electives: The school has a particularly strong record in Mathematics and Science. Extension 1 and 2 courses are offered in Mathematics. Other Board courses include Extension English, Extension History, Visual Arts, Visual Design, Music, Economics, Geography, Drama, Commerce, Computing Studies, Business Studies, Legal Studies, Design and Technology, Photography, Technics, PD/Health/PE, Sport/Leisure and Recreation, and SVET Construction and Hospitality. Boys can access TVET courses, as well.
Sport: The school has a reputation for excellence in sport, offering rugby, soccer, cricket, athletics, tennis, baseball, swimming, basketball, volleyball, oztag, lawn bowls, table tennis and hockey. Epping Boys is a member of the North West Metropolitan High School Sports Association. Epping Boys play the above sports at a competitive level against the following schools on a weekly basis: Ashfield BHS, Asquith BHS, Homebush BHS, Normanhurst BHS, North Sydney BHS and Randwick BHS. Epping Boys High has been the champion zone school seven times in the past 10 years. Leisure sports include golf, gym, ice-skating, bushwalking, bush bike-riding, tenpin bowling and weight training.
Extracurricular activities: Include musical and choral ensembles, drama productions; English, science, mathematics and social sciences competitions; chess, debating, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, Enviro Team and Christian groups.
Welfare and personal development: There is a prefect system and Students’ Representative Council (SRC) to encourage maximum involvement of students in decision-making. Peer mentoring links junior and senior students.
Special features: The school enjoys a high profile in music, with students participating in the Schools Spectacular, City of Sydney Eisteddfod and other outside events. During 2008, several musical highlights featured throughout the year, the first being the musical production Jesus Christ Superstar. Others were the annual music concert and several competitions where ensembles performed with musical sophistication. Many music students belong to various state ensembles such as the Millennium Marching Band, with some having travelled to China for the Olympics in 2008. In 2009 the wind ensemble won the Sydney Eisteddfod.
Famous ex-students: Geoffrey Robertson, Jack Newton, John Abernethy, Iva Davies.