School Information
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 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 - Lucy Youston
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) 2021
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 throughout terms 1 and 2. If you applied for the CSEF at this school in 2020, you will not need to complete an application form for 2021 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 2020 and/or you did not apply at Thornbury High in 2020.
- changed family circumstances; such as a change of custody, change of name, concession card number, or new siblings commencing at the school in 2021.
For further information and to obtain this information in different languages please visit the CSEF website. If you have any questions or are unsure about whether you received CSEF during the 2020 school year, please check with the General Office via email thornbury.hs@education.vic.gov.au .
Applications must be submitted by 25 June 2021.