Margaret Fry Scholarship

Over the last 21 years, Margaret Fry has been teaching at PHSC. She has spent 18 of those 21 years in leadership roles including 8 years as Assistant Principal before returning to the area she loved the most: Careers and Pathways coordination at the senior level. 

Margaret graduated with a BSc(Hons) in 1981, majoring in geology, then worked in the mining industry in outback Australia. Post geology, she went travelling for 3 years. She had always designed and made clothing so found work with Zandra Rhodes in London before returning to Australia to do a Fine Art degree in Fashion and Textiles. She worked in the rag trade, mainstream, then fringe, before working at the Victorian State Opera and Australian Ballet making costumes. Margaret lectured briefly at RMIT in ‘Costume’ to discover she loved teaching. She then trained as a teacher, resurrecting her Science degree, to have her first teaching round at PHSC in 1999. She completed a Master of Education, by research, in Semiotics and was offered a job at PHSC in 2002. 

School Council is delighted and particularly appreciative of Margaret Fry's contribution to the school to create a legacy in the Margaret Fry Scholarship for the next 20 years.

The Margaret Fry scholarship will be awarded to a Year 12 student who is interdisciplinary (a ‘fledgling’ polymath) and who is passionate about continuing to explore their many different interest areas at tertiary level.

Thank you Margaret.