College News

Reminder - House Mascot Design Competition

Dear Students, Staff and Carers,

Our student House Captains are excited to announce the next competition in creating House Mascots for each of our four houses.During Term 1, our students voted on their House Mascots with the results below. Nathan, in Year 8 was also the winner of a $50 gift card for being the lucky student who submitted an idea for House Mascots in Term 4 last year.

The next step is a design competition so that these mascots can come alive! Please see the attached flyer for details. There is a $50 gift card prize for each of the winning mascot designs. 

The Brentwood House Mascots are:

• Banksia Bandicoots
• Jacaranda Dolphins
• Waratah Red Backs
• Wattle Wombats

Competition closes on soon on May 12, so check out the attached flyer, get creative and put your entry in!

Student accident insurance, ambulance cover arrangements and private property brought to school

The Department of Education does not provide personal accident insurance or ambulance cover for students. Parents/carers of students, who do not have student accident insurance/ambulance cover, are responsible for paying the cost of medical treatment for injured students, including the cost of ambulance attendance or transport as well as any other transport costs.

Parents/carers can purchase insurance policies from commercial insurers.

Private property brought to school by students, staff or visitors is not insured and the Department does not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage.

This can include mobile phones, calculators, toys, sporting equipment and cars parked on school premises. As the Department does not hold insurance for personal property brought to schools and has no capacity to pay for any loss or damage to such property, students and staff should be discouraged from bringing any unnecessary or particularly valuable items to school.

Duke of Edinburgh Bronze, Silver and Gold 2024

As part of the elective program at Year 9 and Year 10 and the Cocurricular program at Year 11, at Brentwood Secondary College, students have the opportunity to complete their Bronze, Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. The Award is a leading structured youth development program, empowering all young Australians aged 14-24 to explore their full potential and find their purpose, passion and place in the world. The Award is recognised internationally.

Through the Award, students:

• Are equipped and empowered to achieve their personal best.
• Learn to take responsibility for their goals and choices.
• Become connected to and actively engaged within their immediate community.
• Make a real difference to society through their positive contributions and involvement.
• Learn to persevere and overcome barriers to success.
• Learn important life skills.
• Increase their career opportunities.

Please feel free to contact me should you have any further queries.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Regards

Tracey Cain

Award Unit Leader Brentwood Secondary College

2022 Destination Data

Congratulations again to the class of 2022 for their outstanding results. To recap;  Our Dux, Jialin Wang scored a whopping 99.45!!  Two students achieved a perfect score of 50 for Theatre Studies and Further Maths.  15.9% of students achieved an ATAR of 90 or above  37.8% of students achieved an ATAR of 80 or above  57.14% of students achieved an ATAR of 70 or above   So where are they now?? The Pathways Team is proud to announce that  75% of our students are currently studying at University 11% are at TAFE 7% are in employment 3% are undertaking Apprenticeships or Traineeship 2% have joined the Defence Force 2% are taking a GAP year    

Monash University continues to be our most popular tertiary institution with 75 Brentwood students enrolled. Deakin University is a close second with 57 students. RMIT (22) and Swinburne (22) Universities have moved up the ranks for us significantly this year, offering a wide range of courses that appeal to our students. ACU (11), The University of Melbourne (7), La Trobe (7), Victoria University (6) and Federation University were also chosen.    

Business/Commerce is again our most popular study area, followed closely by IT and Engineering then Science, Nursing, Arts, Exercise Science/Allied Health, Psychology, Design, Education and Law.  

Excursion Payment and Consent

It is a legal requirement that consent is given for students to attend and or participate in events such as excursions and sport. Payment and consent on the day or the day prior to an event is not sustainable for the college. Teachers and coaches need to know who is attending events with sufficient notice for buses, providers and fielding sporting teams.

Consent and payment for events is due two school days before the event at midnight – for example if an event is on a Friday, consent and payment will be due by midnight on Wednesday. If the event is on a Monday the consent and payment will be due by midnight on the Thursday prior.

Parents and students will no longer be able to consent and pay for events on the day before an event or on the day of an event. If consent and payment are not received by midnight two school days before an event the student will not be able to attend.

Payment and consent can be completed on Compass, if you do not have a Compass log in please contact the office on 8545-0300.

For families who would like to use Camps Sports and Excursion Fund (CSEF) for payment of an event, please print out students excursion form via compass, complete the written consent and have students hand forms in to the general office with an instruction to use CSEF for the payment using the same timeline as above, two school days prior to an excursion or sporting event. Students can print their excursion forms in the library.

The college appreciates your cooperation and if you have any questions, please contact the general office on 8545-0300.

Camps, Sports & Excursions Fund (CSEF) 2023 

CSEF will be provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to help cover the costs of school camps, sports and excursions. Families holding a valid means-tested concession card for e.g. Veterans Affairs Gold Card, Centrelink Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card and Temporary Foster Parents are eligible to apply. 

A Special Consideration category exists for:

• Families on a Bridging Visa, Temporary Protection Visa, are in community detention or are asylum seeker or refugee families
• Students in out of home care
• Students in statutory kinship care 

Please also note the parent/carer of a student who is 16 years or older and who holds a valid concession card (such as a Youth Allowance Health Care Card or Disability Support Pension Card) are eligible to apply. 

The allowance is paid to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, sports and excursions for the benefit of your child. The annual CSEF amount per student is $225 for secondary school students. 

CSEF Application Forms 2023 are attached on Compass or can be downloaded on Compass under School Documentation (two person icon on Compass dashboard).

Please scan the completed Application Form and a copy of your Centrelink Card and Email to brentwood.sc@education.vic.gov.au

CSEF Applications for 2023 are Now Open and will Close for processing End of Term 2, 23 June 2023.

For more information about CSEF and information in other languages CSEF Information Click Here

Please Note late applications can not be accepted.

Discounted School Uniforms

Brentwood has minimal stock of the following items to be cleared out at heavily reduced prices.  Please note these items are ONLY available at the reduced price through the school, NOT at PSW.  If you are interested in purchasing some items please contact Kellie Rosenfeld Kellie.Rosenfeld@education.vic.gov.au

OLD STOCK CLEARANCE

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Public Transport - Prepaid Buses

To support safer bus journeys and the rollout of all door boarding , cash transactions were permanently removed from myki-enabled buses from 13 July 2020. Parents and students can ensure they continue to travel with a valid ticket by using the following:

• Online at ptv.vic.gov.au/myki
• New PTV app
• Auto top up
• Myki Retailers
• Quick top up  machines
• Myki machines
• Ticket offices including train stations and PTV Hubs

Prepaid boarding will help reduce travel time for passengers as well as increase the reliability of services and Public Transport Victoria is continuing to make improvements to help passengers' transition to this new model. More information is available at ptv.vic.gov.au/tickets/myki/buy-a-myki-and-top-up/ 

Annual Privacy Reminder

Our school collects, uses, discloses and stores student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy.

Please take time to remind yourself of the school’s collection statement, found on our website.

For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents. This information is also available in nine community languages:

• Amharic
• Arabic
• Dari
• Mandarin
• Somali
• Sudanese
• Turkish
• Urdu
• Vietnamese