From the Principal

Dear Parents/Carers, Students And Friends

Student Attendance

We have been continuing to monitor student attendance and are focusing on improving this across the whole school.  During the previous three years of COVID and resultant periods of remote learning, we saw attendance of students decreasing.  Last year, despite being back onsite together for a full year, there were still some attendance issues largely due to COVID and other illnesses.  We have also seen an increase in the amount of ‘family holidays’ being taken and students missing time from school.  I want to reiterate the importance of young people being at school each day.  To miss periods of schooling limits continuity of learning and student wellbeing, making it challenging for our young people to catch-up in class, participating in events at school, and social connections.  We appreciate and acknowledge your continued support and partnership in your child’s journey with us.  Please see further information on the Student Expectations page. 

International Women’s Day Breakfast

International Women’s Day is celebrated on Wednesday 8 March and the theme is DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality.

We held our second ever International Women’s Day Breakfast last  Friday 10 March and heard from inspirational women: Peta Murphy – Federal MP, Laura Standish-Daniel – Account Executive at Microsoft, and our very own Kelly Gilbert of Year 12 School Captain. Thank you to Ms Leah Hannas, Mrs Jess Bambridge, Mrs Sarah Bahramis, Mrs Stav Smaragdiou and Mrs Carolyn Florance for their outstanding work organising this wonderful event. 

Swimming Sports

Thank you to Mrs Jodie Burton, Mr Luke Rowe, Mrs Kylie Grech, and Ms Kate Burgess for their efforts in organising a very successful House Swimming Sports. It was great weather and fantastic to see our students participating and supporting each other. Thank you also to Mrs Sarah Bahramis, Mr Jon Christie, Mrs Jessica Bambridge and our SLC students for their efforts on the day. 

Well done to Brim our winners of the House Swimming Sports this year:

Brim 792     |     Yawa 639     |     Barrbunin 530     |     Tir-rer 411

Something eXtra Expo

Recently we ran the Something eXtra Expo at Frankston High School. A big thank you to Mrs Jess Bambridge, Mrs Sarah Bahramis and Mr Jon Christie for organising such a magnificent event to showcase all the amazing extra curricula activities on offer to students. Thank you to all the staff and students who displayed their activities and for creating such fantastic opportunities for our students to participate in such activities. There were close to 20 stalls including: School Captains, House Leaders, Rainbow Alliance, Peer Support, Wellbeing, My Weekend is Fully BOOKED, Art Club, Chill Out & Look About, SLC, Interact, Production, Dungeons & Dragons, Choir/Vocal Ensemble, Aerobics, Sports Leadership, Great Vic Bike Ride, Semper Squad, Life Saving and Eco Team. 

High School Student Photography Awards 2023

Jasmine Price (Year 12) entered this photography competition last year (Centre for Creative Photography) and has been awarded an ‘honourable mention’ for her work. The TOP 30 will be exhibited in The Light Gallery  Congratulations Jasmine!

Alumni Program

Why are we developing our Alumni Program? 

This school has a proud record of educating young people. Our school’s alumni community is huge, full of interesting people doing interesting things. Alumni can be inspirational, relatable role models for current students. They can provide career guidance for students, work experience placements or establish scholarships and other types of philanthropic support for Frankston High School has a proud record of educating young people. Our school’s alumni community is huge, full of interesting people doing interesting things. Alumni can be inspirational, relatable role models for current students. They can provide career guidance for students, work experience placements or establish scholarships and other types of philanthropic support for students. Universities and private schools are skilled at building their alumni communities, but there hasn’t been a tradition in state schools of harnessing the potential of their alumni communities. Ourschool is a not-for profit service helping public high schools build a thriving alumni network to help current students and the school community. Our Alumni Program Coordinator, Ms Jenny Hammond, is working here on Mondays and Tuesdays to find and reconnect with alumni. Once we’ve established a contact list of alumni and their expertise, she will work with teachers to invite alumni back to school to enrich the school’s classroom subject.

School Tours

Bookings are now open for school tours for prospective families. Tours are to be held in the first two weeks of Term 2.

Bookings are essential and can be made via Trybooking.

Mr Andrew Batchelor

Principal