Media, News & Events
- The school planned to implement a biometric student attendance system in late March, 2008. The system required students to provide fingerprint data (which was checked against a school controlled biometric database) in order to confirm their attendance each morning. However due to concerns raised by members of the school community in regards to privacy issues, the implementation of the system was postponed indefinitely. The system raised concerns that the sensitive data might intrude on student privacy. As a result, the system was discontinued.(As summarised from, and)
- On 8 April 2008, there was a bomb threat phoned in to the school around midday. All students and staff were evacuated to the back oval and remained there until half past one in the afternoon, when it was declared safe to return to class. No explosives were found.
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