Year 7 First Week

Our 2026 Year 7 cohort are now officially Secondary School students! Another large group of students - this year’s Year 7’s also are spread across 9 classes like the 2025 cohort - meaning our Junior school is now the largest it has ever been.

Our youngest students have successfully navigated a nerve wracking Orientation Day last December, a busy organisational day on Jan 28th and then the all-important Day 1 of classes on Thursday 29th Jan. Our Year 7’s are now confidently moving around the school, finding classes and making new friends. 

Thornbury High prides itself on its transition process, aiming to make this major transitional period as fun, friendly and inclusive as possible. By giving our students time to organise, settle and get familiar with their new surroundings, gives them the best possible chance of early success once classes start - we feel that our Year 7’s in 2026 have taken to their new school very well.

At the time of writing, we are now in our 5th week of school for 2026 - with the first major school event already completed last week (Swimming Carnival). It was wonderful to see our newest students enjoying their first sports carnival, the first of many!

We look forward to further school events such as Year 7 camp, Athletics Carnivals, School productions, Music Concerts and excursions where our Year 7’s can continue to grow and excel.

Thanks to all families for their support over this big transitional period and we wish all our newest students good luck and lots of success over the next 6 years. 

Pieter Oosterloo, Georgia Stavrakis and Claudia Giarrusso

Year 7 Team