Sports

Monash Division Athletics

The weather was perfect last week for the Monash Division Athletics carnival held at Knox. We had a large team represent us to compete against our local schools and we had a lot of talented athletes come back to school with a ribbon. Our students looked fantastic in their uniform, obviously proud to representing Brentwood, and we were the school to beat!

Five of our students were awarded Age Group Champion within Monash Division:

13 Years Stella Czosnek

15 Years Taydon Gold

16 Years Gaby Klinkert & Michael Skantzos

17 Years Angie Nikolova

This year the points allocated to each of the junior, intermediate, senior and overall shields were really close. If a student misses an event or a school cannot fill an event, you are basically giving points away to the other schools.

That is why we encourage participation and having a go.

You don’t have to be the best, but you do have to try your best.

Divisional results

Junior Shield (13/14 years)

1st Brentwood

2nd Wheelers Hill

3rd South Oakleigh

4th Wellington

Intermediate Shield (15/16 years)

1st Brentwood

2nd John Monash

3rd Wheelers Hill

4th South Oakleigh

5th Wellington

Senior Shield (17-20 years)

1st John Monash

2nd Brentwood

3rd Wheelers Hill

4th Wellington

5th South Oakleigh

Overall Champion School

1st Brentwood

2nd Wheelers Hill

3rd John Monash & South Oakleigh

5th Wellington

Aggregate Shield (points per school size)

1st John Monash

2nd Wheelers Hill

3rd South Oakleigh

4th Brentwood

5th Wellington

Thank you to the staff and pre service teachers who officiated and helped with the smooth running of the day; Mr Shah, Ms Wrench, Mr Louey, Mr Ancevski, Mrs Pollock, Mr Clayton and our pre service teachers April, Felix and Annie.

It was also amazing to see lots of support from parents and family members who attended to cheer on their athlete/s and Brentwood. We appreciate the support.

Brentwood now has 54 students competing across 54 individual events and 9 relay teams at EMR Athletics on Wednesday October 9. The EMR athletics will be held at Doncaster athletics track. Best of luck to all students competing.

Kim Nash & Sarah Swilks

Team Managers

Senior Boys Netball Team

Congratulations to the senior boy’s netball team on their outstanding performance to make it into the State Final at the Waverley Netball Centre on Monday 2nd September. The players listened to each other and their coaches, they respected the umpires and genuinely put in 100% effort on the court. We finished top of our pool after winning games against Bentleigh SC, Bendigo Senior SC and Hazel Glen College. In our cross over semi-final, we had a very narrow win against Galen College from Wangaratta 20-19.

This meant that we were in the STATE FINAL v Drouin SC. It was a very competitive match, at the end of the first quarter we were down by 1, at half time only down by 2 goals. We were rolling our substitution players to ensure we had players with stamina on the court after playing four games already. At the end of 30 minutes, we walked away with the silver medal with the final score of 32-21.

A huge thank you to Kaitlyn Grunow and Emma Peacock for coaching the team.

Mr Mcloughlin for entrusting me with the team on the day after he had supported them through the round robins to make it to the state finals. To Ryan Lee and Jack Ratcliffe who were injured and helped us with scoring and coaching duties on the day.

Lastly a huge shout out to the players themselves. I walked away so proud of their performance, well done on an outstanding result!

Sam Bower, Jett Boyd-Lingard, Joel Jaworski, Jonathan Lagaaia, Charlie Lewis, Hunter Shrimpton, Max Taborsky, Alex Vujmilovic and William Zheng.

Monique Burke

Team Manager

Year 8 Boys Table Tennis

Two teams competed at the Dandenong Table Tennis Stadium on Wednesday 11th September, coached by Year 10 students Lisa Lau and Wilson Liu. The sportsmanship demonstrated by the players was fantastic, the boys played multiple back-to-back games. They were encouraging of all players, watched each other play and cheered each point. The A team came first, winning our matches in our round robin 6-0 v Wheelers Hill SC, 6-0 v 5 South Oakleigh SC and 5-1 v Wellinton SC. The B team also remained undefeated, winning all their matches 6-0. Congratulations to both teams for a great day out and a huge thank you to our student coaches for running and organising our coaching sessions.

A team: Jucas Jiang, Jeffery Ma, Lucas Ramli and George Lau.

B Team: Gaurav Charanjit Singh, Aiden Edirisusiya, Heiby Kong, Sudhit Kancherkuntla and Roger Duong.

Monique Burke

Team Manager

Year 8 Girls Table Tennis

Congratulations to the students who were part of the year 8 girls table tennis teams who competed at the Monash Division competition last week. After several selection trials, we were able to enter two competitive teams.

Our A team were undefeated all day against Wellington, Wheelers Hill and South Oakleigh. Our B team played in the Year 7 A competition as no other local school entered a second year 8 team (hopefully they will next year!).

A team members: Annabella Wu-Zhu, Zoe Lim, Melanie Dew, Chloe Foo

B team members: Charlene Sam, Chloe Cai, Isabella Cheng, Rhea Kelaiya

Thank you to our student coaches Milki Tse and Hayden Tran for all their leadership on the day and during the lead up to the event.

Well done and good luck at EMR later this year.

Kim Nash

Coach

PE Footwear Reminder

Dear Parents and Guardians,

This is a reminder that students should be wearing appropriate footwear to PE classes. Students should be wearing sports runners with adequate grip on the bottom of their shoes. PE classes are completed on a wide range of surfaces including, but not limited to, gym floor, asphalt and grass, also in a variety of weather conditions.

Shoes should be worn that allow students to participate safely across all terrain. PE staff make decisions on a daily basis, whether it is safe to complete classes, students need to wear shoes that are appropriate for all scenarios. If shoes are deemed inappropriate, students may be unable to participate. Students should not be wearing street or lifestyle runners to class as these shoes do not provide adequate grip and support.

Please see below images for shoes that are appropriate for PE classes and those that are not appropriate for PE classes.

Kind regards,

Meg Wrench Joseph

Head of Health and Physical Education

Competition Sports Uniform

With interschool sport competitions, some teams must wear sports tops with numbers and special-coloured sports socks. Brentwood provides these tops and socks. However, sometimes students wear these tops/socks home instead of handing them back to the teacher in charge at the end of the day. So, as you spring clean or change your bedroom layout during the term break, keep an eye out for any missing Brentwood Sport Specialised team uniforms. So, drop them off to the main office or the PE staffroom when you return. No questions asked!

We are hoping for Brentwood AFL jumpers, Soccer/Hockey/Volleyball/Basketball numbered tops, and navy long socks to be found and returned!

Kim Nash & Sarah Swilks

Directors of Sport

Please find a photo below for reference:

Brentwood School Sports

Brentwood competes in the School Sport Victoria (SSV) program. We are a successful school due to the commitment of students and staff to the program.

Staff volunteer their time to provide opportunities to the students to get involved.

Students can learn new skills, develop tactical thinking within a competitive environment, meet new friends, build rapport with staff outside the classroom, demonstrate leadership skills through student coaching, display good sportsmanship no matter what the outcome, and most of all students can grow as a person.

Brentwood look the part when we go out to compete. When we arrive at a competition, other schools know exactly who we are; as we arrive as a team and we look like a team. Students wear our sports uniform with pride.

We have a strict uniform policy. If you are part of a Brentwood team you look like a Brentwood student. We wear our sport uniform: Brentwood polo, Brentwood navy shorts, Brentwood navy track pants, Brentwood rugby jumper, Brentwood jacket, Brentwood hat, white socks, and appropriate footwear. We do not wear casual clothing or other teams clothing. We represent Brentwood.

We enter teams into all SSV competitions and compete within the Monash Division.

Our local competition come from Wheelers Hill Secondary College, South Oakleigh College, Wellington Secondary College and John Monash Science School.

Winning teams then progress to the Eastern Metropolitan Region (EMR) round robin competitions, and successful teams from EMR compete at the SSV State Championships.

Communication is via the Compass portal. Consent and payment for events must be completed via compass. Consent must be finalized by 11.59pm two school days prior to the event/excursion. If a student does not have consent and payment is not complete before this time, they will not be permitted to attend. Unfortunately, some students do miss out.

We also like to celebrate student sporting achievement. We would love to hear about your child’s super special milestones and achievements in their chosen sport. A quick email is all that it takes : sports@ms.brentwood.vic.edu.au

I do hope that you encourage your child to try a new sport through the many opportunities at Brentwood to get involved. Even if they do not make a team, they have learnt new skills and developed abilities during the selection trials and trainings.

We also love to have supportive parents attend sporting events.

So feel free to come along and cheer on Brentwood throughout the year.

Kim Nash & Sarah Swilks

2024 Directors of Sport

PE uniform reminders:

Below are some PE uniform reminders:

Years 7 – 9 may wear their PE uniform all day on days in which they have PE. This is made known to students by having GYM1, GYM2, GYM3 etc. for their “room” location. On days where students have Health, they are required to be in their academic uniform.
Year 10 students may only wear PE uniform if they are completing either PE elective (Enhanced PE or Sports Science) on the days their teacher has selected for them to complete their practical classes for the week. Students will be given uniform pass cards from their teacher which will list what days these practical classes are on. Students are to carry these card at all times. If a student is in PE uniform on a day that a practical class is not on or cannot present their card then they will receive a uniform chronicle.
Year 11 and 12 students are to change into and out of their PE uniforms for periods that they have a practical class. If students have PE in period 1 they are allowed to come to school in their PE uniform and will change at the end of this period. If students have PE in period 5 they will need to change at lunch time and are permitted to leave school in their PE uniforms. If students have practical classes in period 2, 3 or 4 then they must be changing in and out of their uniforms during that classtime. If a year 11 or year 12 student comes to class in their PE uniform and they do not have a practical class in that period then they will receive a uniform chronicle.
PE uniform items can be purchased here - https://www.psw.com.au/schools/brentwood-secondary-college.html?p=2

Kind regards,

Meg Wrench Joseph

Head of Health and PE