At the start of the 1956 school year, secondary-aged school students in the Bentleigh area were requested to assemble at the grandstand of the Bentleigh Football Club to be a part of Bentleigh High School. The Headmaster Mr L.A. Cooke's opening words were; "Buildings do not make a school, but the students and the teachers make a school." The first school motto was "Schools are not ma...