A male teacher at an independent girls' school in Melbourne's north-east has been suspended as police investigate historical sex abuse allegations.

Victoria Police confirmed the Box Hill sexual offences and child abuse investigation team are investigating allegations of child abuse at an eastern suburbs school between 1981 and 1983.

The teacher has been stood down and is now on leave. Credit:Phil Carrick

On Wednesday the teacher was suspended by the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

The man has been stood down from his current position at Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar but the incidents of assault allegedly occurred during his time teaching at Mount Scopus Memorial College in Burwood.