General Office

General Office hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30am-4:30pm

Phone: 9480 4066 ext 7

Parents/carers are reminded to contact the school via Compass, phone or email and refrain from on site visits at present.

Parents should always make contact with the General Office first when visiting the school or trying to make contact with their children. Appointments with teachers must be made via telephone or email.

Uniform Shop

Academy Uniforms has a uniform shop on site at Thornbury High School in Room 47.

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.

Absences

Student absences should be reported to the school before 8:50am, either through Compass, or by contacting one of our attendance officers:

Y7-10 Carol Marsh Ph: 9458 6125 email

Y11+12 Jennifer Hartley Ph: 9458 6135 email

Staff Contacts

Principal - Michael Keenan

Assistant Principals:

Teaching & Learning - Paul Mameghan

Operations - Tayatea Mackenzie

Student Wellbeing & Engagement - Ryan Millar

Head of Year 7 - Pieter Oosterloo

Head of Year 8 - Ann Vassos

Head of Year 9 - Tim Polwarth

Head of Year 10 - Matt Lowe

Head of Year 11+12 - Tom Ding

Head of English - Robin Garden

Head of Mathematics - Diana Walder

Head of Humanities - Rick Manning

Head of Science - Lisa Pieropan

Head of Performing Arts - Emma McCulloch

Head of Visual Art - Sheraz Salama

Head of Languages - Max Tosi

Head of Health & PE - Saleem Nasser

Head of Technologies - Cameron Baird

Head of Professional Learning - Cara Martin

EAL/ELC Coordinator - Renata Tirabassi

VCAL/VET Coordinator - Maria Ioannidis

Student Leadership Coordinator - Bec Perkin

Privacy information for parents and carers

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.

Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund (CSEF) 2020

The Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund [CSEF] assists families with the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities for their child/ren.

Full details can be found here.

Applications close 26 June, 2020.

Insurance

Parents and carers are reminded that the school does not provide personal accident insurance or ambulance cover for students. We strongly encourage all parents/carers to have up-to-date ambulance cover. Parents/carers 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/carers can purchase insurance policies from commercial insurers.

The Department’s Student Medical Expenses Policy is available here.

Key dates

Important Dates

Looking Ahead

Term Dates 2020