Thornlie Senior High School
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Thornlie Senior High School is an Public high school
in Western Australia
. The school is located on Ovens Road in the suburb of Thornlie
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The school was established in 1971 and caters for students from Year 8 to Year 12. It is located in the Canning educational district and has had enrolments of between 1000-1200 for the last five years.
In 2010 four students from the school were awarded Certificates of Excellence by the Curriculum Council of Western Australia and one student was awarded the University of Western Australia
Fogarty Foundation award.
$20,000 of damage were caused in April 2010 when a group of thugs vandalised sections of the school including smashing 40 windows. The criminals then broke into one classroom and destroyed a data projector.
Glenn Sterle
, current Western Australian Senator, for the Australian Labor Party
attended Thornlie Senior High School from 1974 to 1977.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
in Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
. The school is located on Ovens Road in the suburb of Thornlie
Thornlie, Western Australia
Thornlie is a large outer suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 18 kilometres south-east of Perth's central business district. It is part of the City of Gosnells local government area. The Canning River runs through the northern side of the suburb...
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The school was established in 1971 and caters for students from Year 8 to Year 12. It is located in the Canning educational district and has had enrolments of between 1000-1200 for the last five years.
In 2010 four students from the school were awarded Certificates of Excellence by the Curriculum Council of Western Australia and one student was awarded the University of Western Australia
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...
Fogarty Foundation award.
$20,000 of damage were caused in April 2010 when a group of thugs vandalised sections of the school including smashing 40 windows. The criminals then broke into one classroom and destroyed a data projector.
Glenn Sterle
Glenn Sterle
Glenn Sterle is an Australian politician. A former trade union organiser, he has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since 2005, representing the state of Western Australia....
, current Western Australian Senator, for the Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
attended Thornlie Senior High School from 1974 to 1977.