General Office

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

Phone: 9480 4066 (ext 3)

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 Andrea Kantzidis 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 - Trent Morison

Head of Professional Learning - Cara Martin

EAL/ELC Coordinator - Renata Tirabassi

VCAL/VET Coordinator - Maria Ioannidis

Student Leadership - Bec Perkin

Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund [CSEF] 2022

CSEF is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.

If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible for CSEF. A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. The allowance is paid to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.

The annual CSEF amount per student is:

$125 for primary school students
$225 for secondary school students

Payments are made directly to the school and are tied to the student. Most payments start from March onwards. Applications can be received during term one and two. Payments are for the year the application is made and cannot be claimed for previous years.

If you applied for the CSEF at this school in 2021, you will not need to complete an application form for 2022 unless there has been a change in your family circumstances.

You only need to complete an application form if any of the following changes apply to you:

new student enrolments - your child started or changed schools in 2022 and/or you did not apply at Thornbury High in 2021.
changed family circumstances - such as a change of custody, change of name, concession card number, or new siblings commencing at the school in 2022.

For further information and to obtain this information in different languages please visit the CSEF website . Application forms can also be found on Compass in School Documentation.

If you have any questions or are unsure about whether you received CSEF during the 2021 school year, please check with the General Office via email accounts@thornburyhs@education.vic.gov.au .

Applications must be submitted by 25 June 2022.

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. The local council 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 vaccination saves lives and makes 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:

• Privacy -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.

Community Involvement