General Office

General Office open hours:

Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm

Phone number:

(03) 9480 4066

Parents must ensure that they make contact with the General Office first before visiting the school or trying to make contact with their children. Appointments with teachers or staff must be made via telephone or email.

Real Support Right Now

Cost of living support is available at all Victorian public schools. This term, you will see posters and signage at our school about Real Support Right Now.

At our school, ask us about Victorian government funded:

- School Breakfast Clubs

- Free period products

- More affordable uniforms (State Schools' Relief)

- Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund

Help is available. For more information on Real Support Right Now please contact accounts@thornburyhs.vic.edu.au or thornbury.hs@education.vic.gov.au

Uniform Shop

Academy Uniforms has a uniform shop on site at Thornbury High School. Please note that the uniform shop is not open during school holidays.

Open hours: Mon 1 - 4pm, Wed 1 - 2pm

Sustainable School Shop

Second-hand textbooks and uniform can be purchased and sold online through the Sustainable School Shop website.

Student Absences

Student absences should be reported to the school before 8:50am by completing an 'Attendance Note' on Compass. If you have any questions regarding attendance, please contact the appropriate attendance officer/s:

Y7-8: Carol Marsh, Ph: 9458 6125

Y9-10: Reagan Wyles, Ph: 9458 6120

Y11-12: Fleur Lidyard/Andrea Cottier,

Ph: 9458 6135

Staff Contacts

Principal - Dr Lars Andersson

Assistant Principal (Curriculum) - Ryan Millar

Assistant Principal (Operations) - Cara Martin

Assistant Principal (Student Wellbeing & Engagement) - Paul Mameghan

Head of Year 7 - Pieter Oosterloo

Head of Year 8 - Tim Polwarth

Head of Year 9+10 - Conor Bragge

Head of Year 11+12 - Fiona Walker

Head of English, Literacy & EAL -

Seamus Kavanagh

Head of Mathematics - Samuel McDowell

Head of Humanities - Leah Shields

Head of Science - Tara Quenalt

Head of Performing Arts - Fi Parrey

Head of Visual Arts - Sheraz Salama

Head of Food Technology - Sheraz Salama

Head of Languages - Chiara Florio

Head of Health & PE - Trent Morison

Year 7+10 Immunisation Information

The Secondary School Immunisation Program offers free vaccines to all eligible Year 7 and Year 10 students.

Year 7 students:

Diphtheria-tetanus-whooping cough (pertussis) - single injection 
Human papillomavirus (HPV) – two injections, spaced a minimum of six months apart

Year 10 students:

Meningococcal ACWY – single injection

The local council immunisation service delivers the school-based immunisation program.

They will provide immunisation consent forms to your child’s school for your child to bring home. Parents/guardians are required to complete and return the immunisation consent forms to their child’s school.

The Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2019 authorises secondary schools to provide their local council with student and parent/guardian contact information for any student scheduled to receive a vaccination. This information is only used to assist local councils to follow-up parents/guardians of students with incomplete or missing immunisation consent forms.

What information is given to local council?

The school provides the following basic student and parent/guardian contact information to the local council immunisation service:

student name
date of birth
gender
year level and class group
parent/guardian contact details
language(s) spoken at home

Why does the school provide this information?

To improve communication with parents/guardians regarding their child’s vaccination needs.
To ensure all eligible students are offered the opportunity to access free vaccinations at school.
To reduce the administrative burden on school staff to follow-up consent forms.
To eliminate manual data entry processes.

What do I need to do?

Read the information provided in your child’s consent form and complete all sections.
Submit the immunisation consent form with all relevant fields completed, even if you choose not to consent for your child to be vaccinated as part of the secondary school immunisation program.
Your information will be provided to City of Darebin in March. If you do not wish for your details to be provided, please advise the school in writing before the last school day in February.

Every day, vaccinations save lives and make it possible for Victorians to live free from the illness and disability caused by many infectious diseases. For further information please go to the following links:

• https://www.thornburyhs.vic.edu.au/additionalpolicies

• https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/immunisation-in-secondary- schools

Privacy and insurance information for parents and carers:

PRIVACY

During the ordinary course of your child’s attendance at our school, school staff will collect your child’s personal and health information when necessary to educate your child, or to support your child’s social and emotional wellbeing or health.

Read our Secondary School Enrolment Privacy Collection Statement here.

The Thornbury High School policies on Privacy and Photography, filming & recording can be found on the school website here.

INSURANCE

THS does not provide personal accident insurance or ambulance cover for students. We strongly encourage all parents and carers to have up-to-date ambulance cover. Parents and guardians of students, who do not have student accident insurance/ambulance cover, are responsible for paying the cost of any medical expenses such as ambulance costs if their child is injured or requires an ambulance at school, or whilst participating in a school activity. Parents and carers can purchase insurance policies from commercial insurers. The Department’s Claims for Property Damage and Medical Expenses Policy can be found here.

Camps and Excursions Policy

Canteen

UPCOMING: Shakespeare Festival