Community News
Soccer Program for Women and Girls
Headspace are running a free soccer program at Victoria University in St Albans for girls and women who are refugees, humanitarian entrants, and/or other migrants who have lived in Australia for 6 months to 5 years.
For more information contact Dave Drysdale on 0431 574 591.
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Hunt Club Community & Arts Centre
Brimbank Council are excited to share programs to be offered at Hunt Club Community & Arts Centre and Cairnlea Community Hub in Term 3 2026! Programs that may be of interest to support children & youth ages include the following:
🎨 Art & Design for Kids (Ages 7-15), starting Friday 14 August, 6-week program
🎨 Art & Design for Kids (Ages 8-15), starting Saturday 15 August, 6-week program
🎨 Art & Design for Kids (Ages 7-12), starting Saturday 15 August, 6-week program
✨Exciting News – students participating in Art & Design for Kids programs will also be a part of an Exhibition held at Hunt Club Community & Arts Centre in Term 4, 2026!
🏺Kids Pottery (Ages 8-15), starting Saturday 1 August, 4-week program
🏺Pottery Hand Building - Cozy Cottage Incense Burner Workshop (Ages 15+), Friday 14 & 21 August
✏️ Young Artists Studio (Ages 12-15), starting Thursday 27 August, 4-week program
Also, this term we are exhibiting Sunshine & Districts Historical Society - Albion Explosives Factory, 40 Years Exhibition since its closure. On display are photographs, plans, clothing, and other material from the factory. Browse through this material you will appreciate the history of the site, that is now the peaceful, leafy and family-oriented suburb of Cairnlea. For more details please visit 🔗 https://learning.brimbank.vic.gov.au/results/icalrepeat.detail/2026/07/22/441684/-/art-exhibition-opening-sunshine-districts-historical-society-albion-explosives-factory-40-years-term-3-2026
PLUS keep a lookout for Youth Fest happening in September 😊
Click on the Program Guides below for more information:
🔗 Cairnlea Community Hub, 59 Carmody Drive, Cairnlea
https://learning.brimbank.vic.gov.au/venue/cairnlea-community-hub/cat.listevents/2026/01/22/-
🔗 Hunt Club Community Arts Centre, 775 Ballarat Road, Deer Park
For more information please call 9249 4800.
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Brimbank Tech School - Father and Son Session
Brimbank Tech School is proud to present Build & Bond Day, a unique father and son technology challenge designed to bring families together through teamwork, creativity and a little healthy competition.
With Father's Day just around the corner, there is no better way to celebrate than by spending quality time together while exploring some of the most exciting technologies shaping our future.
Proud Supporters of Movember, we are creating an afternoon where dads and sons step away from the everyday and work side-by-side through a series of exciting STEM challenges.
What to Expect
Teams will rotate through four high-energy challenge stations:
🤖 Robotics Race - Build, program and race a robot against the clock.
🚁 Drone Hover Challenge - Pilot, build and outscore the competition.
🥽 VR Escape Room - Work together to solve puzzles where communication is everything.
✨ AI Design Challenge - Create and pitch a future invention powered by artificial intelligence.
Each challenge earns points, with teams climbing a live leaderboard throughout the event. At the end of the afternoon, prizes will be awarded to the highest-scoring teams.
Why Build & Bond?
This event isn't just about technology. It's about:
- Working as a team
- Communicating under pressure
- Solving problems together
- Celebrating strengths
- Creating shared experiences
Many of the skills that make great engineers, innovators and leaders are the same skills that strengthen relationships.
Through every challenge, dads and sons will need to trust each other, listen to each other and work together to succeed.
Event Details
📅 Friday 4 September 2026
🕟 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
📍 Brimbank Tech School, Victoria University Sunshine
👥 Father and son teams
Places are limited, and registration is essential. To ensure all partner schools have an equal opportunity to participate, each school will be allocated four registrations, 1 parent and 1 child per registration.
Register here: Build and Bond Day Attendance Form – Fill out form
We look forward to welcoming you for an unforgettable afternoon of innovation, competition and connection!
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Free Public Transport for Young People Under 18
The Victorian Government has announced that public transport will now be free for all young people under the age of 18.
To access free travel, students are required to have a Youth myki card, which can be purchased for a one-off cost of $5.00. Once a Youth myki card is obtained, all travel will be free.
Students must continue to tap on and tap off when using public transport and must always carry and use their Youth myki card.
Youth myki cards can be purchased from:
- Staffed train stations
- Selected local shopping centres
- Post office
- Some 7-Eleven stores
Or register online for a Youth myki by:
- logging into your myki account
- creating a new account.
Once you register, you'll get an email to use for valid travel while you wait for your card to arrive.
We encourage families to organise a Youth myki card for their child if they regularly use public transport. Visit Transport Victoria for more details.
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Easing into adolescence: resources for families
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.
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Free Telephone Interpreting Service for Parents & Carers
All Graduates Interpreting and Translating provides a free inbound telephone interpreting service, which enables parents and carers to contact our school with the support of a telephone interpreter. This service ensures that families with limited English proficiency can connect with us and receive the support they need.
Download this simple step-by-step guide which explains how parents and carers can utilise this service.
The guide is available in English and the Top 30 most commonly requested languages by families in Victorian government schools. Translated versions can be easily accessed through the links provided in the English version above.
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Financial Assistance for Families
The Brotherhood of St. Laurence’s mission is to work for an Australia free of Poverty.
Given the cost-of-living challenges at the moment, many families are doing it very tough and could use some help.
The Brotherhood of St. Laurence has provided the following financial resources for families, including:
- The Saver Plus Program
- State Schools Relief (contact the school to request this support)
- Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (contact the school for an application form)
- Computerbank
If you would like further information, please feel free to reach out to them!
Ph: 9483 1183
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