Greythorn High School
Name	Greythorn High School
Address	Greythorn Road Balwyn North Balwyn North, Victoria Balwyn North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara... Victoria Victoria (Australia) Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively.... , 3104
Established	1958
Closed (merged)	1991
Type	State school
Students	None. School is now closed Coeducation Coeducation Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...
Years	7 to 12
Nicknames	GHS, Greythorn High, Greythorn Thorns
Colours
Motto	Ne Quid Nimis ("all things in moderation")

Greythorn High School was a state-run high school

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....

 (years 7-12) in the suburb of Balwyn North, in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia

Australia

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. The school was established in February 1958, meeting for the first time at Balwyn High School

Balwyn High School

Balwyn High School is a state-run high school in the suburb of Balwyn North, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1954. As of 2009 it has some 2,000 students and over 180 staff, making it one of the largest schools in the inner-eastern suburbs of Melbourne or the third largest...

 as the new building at Greythorn Road was not completed at that time. After three days, the 81 students and 5 teachers transferred to temporary premises at St Silas Hall and the Scout Hall at Macleay Park. The school moved to the permanent Greythorn Road site in June 1958. The school was officially opened on Saturday 4 June 1960 by the Minister for Education, J. S. Bloomfield, MLA.

During the 1970s and 1980s the school had over 1,000 students and over 100 staff.

It was used for the filming of the children's series, Pugwall

Pugwall

Pugwall is an Australian children's television series. It revolves around the title character Peter Unwin George Wall, PUGWALL, and his friends as they form a band called the Orange Organics.-Premise:...

.

Student numbers dwindled during the 1990s. As from January 1992, the school merged with Balwyn High School which then operated the Greythorn Road site as a campus. The Greythorn Road campus was closed in 1994 by the Kennett

Jeff Kennett

Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC , a former Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999. He is currently the President of Hawthorn Football Club. He is the founding Chairman of beyondblue, a national depression initiative.- Early life :Kennett was born in Melbourne on 2 March...

 Government. The buildings were eventually demolished and the land converted to a new housing estate.

The school had a library and extensive sport facilities, including two large ovals.

The school was well known for teaching drama and producing school plays and musicals, with students such as Mary Coustas

Mary Coustas

Mary Coustas is an Australian television personality. Originally from Melbourne, Coustas often performs as the character "Effie": a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian...

 and Kate Ceberano

Kate Ceberano

Kate Ceberano is an Australian singer. She achieved success in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals with Jesus Christ Superstar and film...

 moving on to successful careers in drama and music.

Principals

• Mr J Guthrie 1958-1961
• Mr R Hodge 1962-1963
• Mr E Cochrem 1964-1969
• Miss J McLennan 1969-1982
• Miss G Sullivan 1983-1986
• Mr G Kingsland 1987-1991

Miss G Rogerson was Acting Principal for a number of years during Miss McLennan's period of illness.

Notable teachers

• Margaret Ray - teacher at Greythorn 1968-81 and Victorian State Politician

Alumni

• Mary Coustas
  Mary Coustas
  Mary Coustas is an Australian television personality. Originally from Melbourne, Coustas often performs as the character "Effie": a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian...
  
  , 1977 - comedian and actor (stage name "Effie")
• Kate Ceberano
  Kate Ceberano
  Kate Ceberano is an Australian singer. She achieved success in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals with Jesus Christ Superstar and film...
  
  , 1979 - singer
• Sang Nguyen
  Sang Nguyen
  Sang Minh Nguyen is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from May 1996 until November 2006, representing Melbourne West Province....
  
  - Victorian politician