Stromlo High School

Mission Statement: Mount Stromlo High School strives to provide a safe and caring education environment where every student is encouraged to achieve individual excellence, self-reliance and responsibility.

Learning provides all students with a positive and productive future full of challenges and satisfaction. The quality education provided by our teachers enables students to contribute positively and productively to our community and society.

Respect for yourself and for others is essential for a successful learning community. Every member of the Mount Stromlo community respects the right of others to learn and feel safe.

Endeavour to do your best in everything you do. Participating in your community and seeing challenges as opportunities allows students to develop a high level of self-respect and pride in their achievements. Everyone learns differently. Everyone has strengths. At Mount Stromlo students are assisted and encouraged to realise their strengths and reach their potential; and to further enhance their learning and development.

Pride, both personal and pride in the school community. Endeavouring to do your best; to be involved; care for others and to show initiative develops a great sense of pride in personal achievements and also in being a Mount Stromlo student.

The school houses are named after nearby mountains and are represented by the students and teachers at school events such as the swimming carnival, athletics carnival, cross country, year challenges and various other competitions. The school houses and colours are as follows:

Oakey: Red, with a redback spider as the mascot.

Cooleman: Green, with a crocodile as the mascot.

Reef: Blue, with a shark as the mascot.

Taylor: Yellow, with a tiger as the mascot.

The Meth Lab Incident: 10th December 2021, an incident relating to a teacher roleplaying as Walter White from the show Breaking Bad on CBS and decided to cook methamphetamine in the science lab, which resulted in a lockdown. This drummed out controversy in the national media from around the time resulting in a lunch time detention in classroom 103.

Bathroom Fire Incident: 2nd August 2022: The school experienced a lockdown as some "Eshay" kids lit a toilet on fire, setting off the fire alarms and causing an evacuation of the school plus, the expulsion of the students. Criminal charges were not pursued as the offenders were under the age of 18 at the time.

The Night Of Broken Tvs: sometime in 2021, During the school day, a group of ex students entered the school premises and destroyed approximately 8 Tv's across several classrooms. The group of men were later charged with Criminal Damages under $75,000 and were tried in the High Court of Australia and sentenced to life in prison without any chance of parole.

The hunt for the understate students, in the late semesters of 2022 a group of mixed grade 10's and 9's entered a back service room for the school stage where they allegedly crawled under the schools stage, and into a trapdoor located to the far right of the stage leading under the floorboards of the school, missing two periods of class and one break. Some accounts from the time say that at any time there where 14 - 10 students all crammed into small confided crawlspaces. While this was going on teachers and staff alike notice that there is a decline in students in classes (specifically badges boys classes) and notify the grade administrator at the time. In the meantime approximately 4-6 kids had entered the underground part of the hall while many still remained below the stage. At 1:15 minutes into the expedition footsteps are heard by the upper workers still located under the stage, in a Chinese whispers fashion the corresponding information was passed down to the students still under the floorboards. Unfortunately for the students the year administrator had become suspicious from all the whispering and the occasional bump in heard below there feet, soon after the administrator left to go grab assistance but this was interpenetrated as a successful evasion of supposition on the students part. Around 1:20 a group consisting of year administrators, year coordinators, and one media / photography teacher.

Please refer to the understate students for a more detailed background of prior events

As the teachers approached the stage many of the kids renegaded attempts to communicate silence to the students still under the floorboards, at this point in time there was 8-9 people under the floorboards, 2 under the stage and 3 above ground on lookout. Around 1:30 the above ground lookout sector failed to report sightings of teacher enforcement headed towards the hall as they them-self's had been spotted and detained. 1:40 minutes go by as the above ground scouting sector refused to dob on the below ground students, after which a student who had be discovered at the time had sent an sms message to a correspondent below, it is hypothesized that the following event was what caused the mass culling as out of panic many of the underground students flooded to the upper sectors of the complex. Unbeknown to many of the fleeing students a teacher was stationed outside the hall, to monitor if any students attempted to get back inside of the stage. Unfortunately this meant that many of the fleeing students where caught in there attempt to evade the teachers.

1:50 - The Culling Begins due to the rising suspensions of teachers and staff and accounts of students fleeing back into the back room of the stage school administrator groups mobilize trapping many students under the stage. 1:55 mobilized groups of teachers and staff move into the hall and start investigating the scene, new emergency response lookout teams notify students (all of witch now reside in the under section of the stage, still above the floorboards) and retreat under the stage, some groups retreat even further underground to evade capture while many remain with the prospect of achieving freedom. 2:05 teachers start to call out under the stage for students to "come out" and other such phrases, some of the more intellectual teacher call out the names of friends of captured students, this allegedly only caught 1-2 students out. 2:10 in a bid to stop wasting time teachers turn on phone spotlights and try and spot students out in the dark. This yielded little results, so the teachers in a bid to capture as many students out as possible fake leaving the hall, leading many to conclude that they had left only to be caught out and detained, this proving the most effective strategy was repeated twice yielding great results. 2:20 teachers leave for the last time as a lone media / photography teacher returns in hes own time to call out to specific students who he suspects of orchestrating this excavation, and caught in the act three more students are detained under a third party and let off the hook at a later point in time. The culling has now subsided.

2:35 - The Culling Ends Throughout the time of the culling, approximately 8 students are detained under school administration, 3 students detained under a 3rd party and to the knowledge of this writer only 3 students ever survived the culling of the under-stage students.