Student opportunities and activities
At Ryde Secondary College, we offer a variety of programs within and beyond the classroom 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
- cultural and language activities
- excursions and incursions
- public speaking and debating
- interest-based clubs
- 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.
Learning characteristics
- capacity for greater analytical depth
- fewer repetitions needed for mastery
- greater capability in abstract reasoning
- relative ease in making connections between disciplines
- advanced reading ability and comprehension
- knowledgeable in areas of passion
- processes information in complex ways
- enjoys hypothesising
- thrives on complexity and can see many points of view
- thinks in analogies
- educational risk-taking
- tolerance for ambiguity
- makes unusual associations between different ideas
- demonstrates creative thinking across domain areas and in the different disciplines
- demonstrates novel thinking in written and oral expression
- flexibility and divergence in thinking
- unusual ability for expressing self through art, dance, drama, music
- creates several solutions to a given problem
- synthesises a variety of ideas in original ways
- subtlety in movement and control of body
- self-disciplined
- coordinated, balanced and confident in physical activities
- high energy levels
- superior understanding of spatial relationships
- endurance, stamina and persistence in physical activities
- suitability of body build for area of physical high potential
- demonstrates prowess in physical activities common amongst age peers
- competitive
- ‘hands on’ learning preference
- advanced organisational and management skills
- advanced social and communication skills
- emotional stability
- empathy
- demonstrated leadership and decision-making skills
- resilient and self-aware
- foresees consequences and implications of decisions
- respected by peers
- self-confident
- task analysis and backwards mapping abilities
- social justice advocacy
Creative
Opportunities and activities involving imagination, invention, and originality.
Intellectual
Opportunities and activities involving solving problems, understanding complex ideas, and applying knowledge.
Physical
Opportunities and activities involving natural abilities in movement, motor control, and endurance.
Social-emotional
Opportunities and activities in managing one's own emotions and relating to and interacting with other people.
Facilities and resources
Learn how our spaces and tools support every subject and learning style.
Events
Find out about school events, celebrations and what’s coming up.