In recent months, the school has invested a considerable amount of funding towards updating and replacing furniture and equipment items, and replacing, rectifying, or installing new capital items around the school property.

Some recent furniture and equipment upgrades are:

• New classroom furniture in the Winstanley VCE wing classrooms.

• New specialised furniture in the Vague Wing art rooms. The first time in over 10 years this furniture has been replaced.

• New classroom furniture in the four Lower Kroger Wing classrooms.

Our new Signage installations to give our school a wonderful and impressive street presence:

• The electronic sign on the Ryrie St frontage.

• The curved corner wall at Ryrie & Garden Sts. This will be illuminated at nighttime with LED backlighting…to be installed before Christmas.

• Shenton Performing Arts Centre corner. Replacing the terribly old Geelong High School wooden sign that had been in place since the school purchased the property in 1994 (can be seen in the background of the image below – soon before removal).

Other major capital works

• All Science wing classrooms have been repainted.
• A new work shed for our Hands-on Learning program - $25k funded through Leopold Bendigo Community Bank.
• A new Garage and storage facility, replacing 3 unsightly shipping containers.

And the works and upgrades won’t stop there!

Over the up-coming Christmas holiday period the following works will continue:

• All Science classrooms will have the carpet replaced….first time since the wing was constructed in 2004.
• The lower Kroger wing classrooms will also be repainted.
• The surrounds of the new garage will be re-asphalted.
• The entire school yard will have chewing gum removed from the hard surfaces using dry-ice technology.
• The old and dilapidated boundary fencing along the Ryrie Street frontage (east of the front entrance), and the entire eastern boundary bordering Eastern Park will be replaced with black palisade style fencing, matching what was installed around our Sensory Garden when the schools rebuild was concluded in 2020….see image below.

The Geelong High School Council is incredibly thankful to all parents and carers who have contributed financially to the school this year through the continued payment of your Curriculum Contributions.

The payment of your Curriculum Contributions enables the school to dedicate our other income sources towards the purchase of new furniture and equipment for students and fund other improvements around the school.

Business Manager

David Board