College News
Finance Update
2026 Parent Payments are available on Compass.
To access 2026 Parent Payments on Compass
Log into your parent account on compass and click on the 9 squares icon on your dashboard and select “Events” and then "Action Centre" and then select 2026 Parent Payments.
This process will enable you to update required information, agree to selected college policies and make curriculum contributions and other parent payments for 2026. Instalment plans are available commencing February 2026.
Elective Subject Payments for 2026 have been charged through compass events.
Elective subjects such as food studies, woodwork, art and drama subjects carry a high resource cost to the school which is explained in the subject guide.
Thank you to our parent community for their patience with allocating the School Savings Bonus to school activities. Please continue to email the school if you wish to use any remaining funds.
Please check with students before paying for an event or committing to a camp. We have had a lot of families requesting refunds for camps/events students cannot attend due to other commitments. Our refund policy states that a refund can only occur if the student has been replaced. We do take out Insurance cover for camps however the claims process is quite rigorous and claims for non-attendance on a camp can only be considered if the student has a doctors certificate stating they are unfit to attend for the dates of the camp.
We thank you for your cooperation.
Kind Regards
Robyn Geshev
Business Manager
Child safety and wellbeing at Brentwood Secondary College: information for families and the school community
Brentwood Secondary College is committed to providing an environment where students are safe and feel safe.
Our child safety policies are available under the ‘College Policies’ section on our website (https://brentwood.vic.edu.au/about-our-college/college-policies/). These policies explain how we support and maintain child safety and wellbeing at Brentwood Secondary College. This includes our:
Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy
Child Safety Reporting and Responding Obligations Procedures, and
Child Safety Code of Conduct, which outlines acceptable and unacceptable behaviours for all staff and volunteers at our school.
Our students and families are important partners in providing a child safe environment. These regular newsletter reminders are one of the ways we ensure our school community is aware of:
- our commitment to child safety, and
- how to provide feedback or raise child safety concerns.
If you have any concerns about child safety at any time, please contact John Ballagh (Principal) or Aaron Palmer (Assistant Principal – Director of Wellbeing) on 8545 0300. Any child safety complaints or concerns are treated seriously. For more information about our school’s complaints process, see our Complaints Policy, which is also located in the ‘College Policies’ section of our website (https://brentwood.vic.edu.au/about-our-college/college-policies/).
We also welcome your ideas on ways we can improve our approach to child safety and wellbeing. If you have any suggestions or comments, please contact Aaron Palmer (Assistant Principal – Director of Wellbeing on 8545 0300 or send an email to brentwoodsc@education.vic.gov.au.
Aaron Palmer
Assistant Principal – Director of Wellbeing
Easing into adolescence: resources for families
Free resources for families of adolescents aged 10 to 14 years.
The Department of Education has launched an Easing into adolescence webpage for families of students aged 10 to 14 (Grade 5 to Year 8).
The webpage has information and strategies you can use to help ease your child into adolescence and secondary school. These include:
· A guide to emotion coaching. Staff from The University of Melbourne’s Tuning in to Teens Kids program developed the guidance.
· How to support your adolescent with their studies and more generally. Parenting expert and clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller helped develop this resource.
Subtitles for videos by The University of Melbourne on the webpage are available in 10 languages. You can select your preferred language on the translations page.
For questions about these resources, contact the Strategic Partnerships, Transitions and Student Voice team. You can email them at Secondary.School.Transition@education.vic.gov.au.
For further information, please see the webpage link below:
Public Transport - Youth Myki
From January 1, public transport is now free for children aged 5 - 17 years. To access from travel, all young people need to carry a Youth Myki card and tap on and off each time they travel.
For more information, please see the link below.
Annual Privacy Reminder
Our school collects and uses student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ privacy policy and the Schools’ privacy collection notice.
Our Photographing, Filming and Recording Students policy describes how we collect and use photographs, video and recordings of students. The policy also explains when parent consent is required and how it can be provided and withdrawn.
For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ privacy policy: information for parents.
This information is also available in eleven community languages:
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Dari
- Gujarati
- Mandarin
- Somali
- Sudanese
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese