Meredith Fuhrmann

Our long-term VET and Workplace Learning Coordinator, Ms Meredith Fuhrmann, is retiring at the end of this year after a long and rewarding career in education, mainly working with the WA Education Department. Meredith worked as a Physical Education and Mathematics teacher before moving into the world of VET for secondary school students and was an original member of the Belridge Senior High School Careers Department.

Meredith worked in this role, as a ‘CAVE’ (Career and Vocational Education) teacher from 1998 to 2001 and as a HASS teacher from 2002-2006.  She then won a position as a Workplace Learning area Coordinator for SEITA (Secondary Education Industry Training Association), where she organised work placements for the North- East Metropolitan Education Region until 2010.

Meredith spent a year as a curriculum writer with West One in 2010 and worked as the VET Coordinator at Swan View SHS from 2011-12, before returning to Belridge Secondary College as VET and Workplace Learning Coordinator in 2013.

Since 2013, Meredith has been working tirelessly to provide our students with a range of opportunities to undertake from Try a Trade courses, work experience and ADWPL Workplace Learning placements and school -based traineeships in a range of industry areas. She has supported hundreds of students to successfully apply for places in externally delivered VETDSS (VET delivered to Secondary Students) at North and South Metropolitan TAFE campuses, and private RTOs like the College of Electrical Training, MTA WA, AMA Training and Greenhouse Education.

Meredith’s close and ongoing support for these students, her liaison with their families and with their lecturers has ensured that our students have consistently achieved the qualifications and have often followed the pathway into traineeships, apprenticeships, or further study in that vocation.

Meredith will be missed and fondly remembered by the school community for her dedication and selfless support and advocacy for our students, and for Vocational Education and Training in general.

We wish Meredith a long and happy retirement, knowing she can look back on a long career and know she made a real difference to the lives of innumerable students over the years. 

Carlos Notarpietro 
Associate Principal 

Suzanne Manning 

Suzanne commenced her teaching career back in 1992 and arrived at our doors back in 2012.

One of our most beloved and highly regarded teachers, Suzanne Manning has sadly resigned from Belridge Secondary College and will be finishing her role as a permanent classroom teacher at the end of this year. Suzanne came to Belridge in 2012, when it was still known as Belridge Senior High School. Suzanne immediately filled the English department with song, dance, her great wit, humour and generosity.  Suzanne has made an extremely valuable contribution to the school throughout the years. Most memorable has been the many characters she played, performing skits for the annual presentation to the school teaching staff, for Mental Health Awareness week. She kept us all entertained and rolling in the aisles with laughter as she was a “Real Housewife of Belridge”, a contestant on “The Bachelor” or a Flight attendant on “Belridge Airways”. In recent years, Suzanne migrated to the HASS department where she has been a welcome member of the team. In the last year, Suzanne switched over to being a relief teacher, and is often welcome with cheers and clapping when she opens the door to an unsuspecting class.  Suzanne is a very well-loved staff member, by staff and students. While we are sad, she has resigned, we are all much relieved that she will continue to relief teach at Belridge Secondary College exclusively, until she is ready to eventually retire (hopefully many years away!).  

Virginia Linto
Head of Humanities & Social Sciences 

Alison Saare

Alison joined Belridge Secondary College in 2012. Alison had previously worked at Hale School’s music Library, and soon became an integral part of our school community, by being a proactive member of the school’s social club, winning the Nancy Tan cup for best hat on Melbourne Cup Day and joining in with most after school events. Alison could always be relied on to being at the end of many races at the athletics carnival, writing down times of students who had finished their race.

Alison has always put students first and helped just about every student with their school needs, in particular photocopying, printing when students didn’t have enough credit, band aids, batteries for calculators, Allen’s snakes, password changes, IT issues and generally being a substitute mum to students as well as staff.

Alison will be very much missed, but she deserves to enjoy the next chapter of her life and we wish her a wonderful retirement, enjoying time with her family.

From all here at Belridge Secondary College, we wish Alison a long, healthy and happy retirement - we will miss you.  

Lisa Manning
Head Librarian and HASS Teacher

We say farewell to Vicki Carroll, who has been at the College for 9 years. She has been part of our amazing EA team and helped so many students with their learning in the classroom.

Vicki has run the MacqLit Program with small groups of students, to help develop their literacy skills. She worked in Student Services, assisting students with uniforms, breakfast and social/emotional care. Vicki has been a valuable member of the Belridge staff, being involved in the Wellbeing team and getting involved in events throughout the school.

Vicki has worked in many classrooms across the school during her time here. Her calm and nurturing approach has helped build rapport with students throughout the classrooms over the years. She has worked positively with both staff and students and been a terrific team member in the Inclusive team.

She will be missed, and we wish Vicki all the best in her new job.

Rebecca Edmonds
Inclusive Education Coordinator