Student opportunities and activities
At Bourke Street Public School, we offer a variety of programs in the classroom and across the school to help students build new skills, make friends and explore new interests.
Our programs may include:
- school sport, athletics and inter-school competitions
- creative and performing arts groups and showcases
- kitchen garden program
- excursions and incursions
- public speaking and debating
- student leadership opportunities
- activities that support high potential and gifted learners.
Contact us to learn more about what’s available and how your child can get involved.
In 2020, Bourke Street engaged in a community project to rename our school houses in Sydney Aboriginal Language. These names demonstrate Bourke Street’s commitment to teaching, learning and celebrating Indigenous histories, culture and education. Through a series of ‘Indigenous Voice’ workshops involving Indigenous students and their families, and led by educator and local Aboriginal Elder Uncle Jimmy Smith, four new names were collaboratively devised:
- Mulgu (meaning Black Swan) formerly Macquarie
- Burra (meaning Eel) formerly Hunter
- Ngura (meaning Country) formerly Wentworth
- Gadi (meaning Grass Tree) formerly Phillip
The names represent a ‘connection to Country’; incorporating native plants, animals, land and water, and present opportunities for new classroom learning linked with the NSW Curriculum.
Students worked on developing logos for each house and we were enormously fortunate to have the collaboration of four high-profile Indigenous artists in this logo design project; Thea Perkins, Blak Douglas, Tony Albert and Keg de Souza. Students’ artworks were shared with these artists who then use them as guiding inspiration for the development of the four house logos for our new Houses.
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