Welcome

This site is to assist communication between past students and to enable them to keep in touch with what is now happening at Eltham High School.

Maybe you will be able to renew old school relationships from here.

I hope this is a rewarding visit and that you will return regularly.

If you register and login you will be able to communicate with other registered past students. The personal details you may provide cannot be viewed by other users, but the school may use these to contact you.

The Eltham High School Alumni Organisation is only in its infancy. So is this page. Past students of the school are doing great things around the world and many have kept on contact with their old school.

The school has a great reputation for community involvement and yet our involvement with our own former students leaves room for improvement.

Perhaps the most important starting point is this and the school's website. As a way to keep former students in contact with current school events and achievements, the school website seems a natural place to start.

If past students of Eltham High School register their details here or forward their name, year of graduation, year level reached, current postal address and email address to the school then we will keep in contact and let you know when updates occur to this page. We will also use your information to update our database of past students. More on this later.

You can always catch up with current events at the school through the school newsletter, which is published weekly and is available through the website.

Involvement by Past Students

Some recent events specifically related to past students of the school include:


The Phillip Adams Writing Scholarship

Phillip provided a scholarship to the school in 2000 to promote students writing. The scholarship is presented annually in conjunction with the launch of the annual anthology of Students Writing.


2002 Careers Night

Careers teacher, Julie Buckland, arranged for 44 past students or current parents to present information about their chosen career. This was a highly successful event with some very high quality "role modelling" going on. Current students have been very positive about the opportunity to meet with past students.


Back to School Day 2002

Back-to-School Day on the 2nd of September saw five former students return to speak with classes about their successes. Susan McLean (Year 12 1979), Ryan Trainor (1991). Jennifer Adams (1991), Bronwen Jennings (1994) and Brooke Lazarus (1994) spoke with classes related to their jobs, about their pathways and experiences since leaving school. Susan is with the Police Schools Involvement Program, Jennifer works in the media with Channel 7, Ryan is a business man, Bronwen is a lawyer and Brooke is about to complete her PhD in molecular biology having discovered a new enzyme which might be significant in transplants.