Sydney Technical High School is an academically selective boys' high school with a strong emphasis on academic studies and student welfare. It's an environment where they are expected to apply themselves to their studies, and exhibit care, sensitivity and understanding in their relationships with each other. At the end of high school our school community wants our students to possess the following attributes: 1. Scholarship Developing students who can: - articulate a vision take up the challenges of learning - be imaginative problem solvers and innovative initiators - think divergently and laterally at the highest level 2. Competencies Developing students who possess: - independent learning skills, enabling them to negotiate learning outcomes - organisational skills, including time management, study techniques, teamwork and collaboration - research, enquiry and communication skills - application skills, including the transfer of learning to new situations - communicating using different technology 3. Leadership Developing our students to be leaders who show they can: - make decisions and take initiative - manage and participate in a team - communicate ideas, processes, strategies, goals and plans. 4. Citizenship Developing students who: - are socially responsible, just and compassionate - are willing to contribute to and participate in all aspects of community life - are proactive members of a local and global environment 5. Emotional Intelligence and Personal Qualities We want students who have: - emotional maturity - an understanding of the emotions of the self and others - empathy - positive and constructive self reflection - confidence in all settings - sound judgement - resilience & perseverance in utilising successes and failures Tech continues a fine tradition of excellence in all areas of endeavour, fulfilling the school motto that "manners makyth man".