Around The College
Introducing our 2024 Student Leaders
Dear Brentwood Staff, Students, Parents, and Guardians,
It is with great pleasure, that I introduce you to our Student Leaders for 2024.
College Captains:
Aimee Booth
Madison Ferris
Anton Jusayan
Hibah Suriya
House Captains:
Banksia Theodora Koutsikos & Jeyla Salih
Jacaranda Truong Lam & Mohana Lakshminarayanan
Waratah Jordan Gilbert & Raghad Yousif
Wattle Shelby Vicic, Hana Pirie & Alex Parisella
Debating Captains:
Senior: Raghad Yousef
Junior: Kamilah Selamat
International Captains: Khudadad Towhid & Aline Pham
Language Captains: Jessica Powell & Michiko Versluis
Library Captains: Audriana Phan & Tharuki Govinnage
Music Captains: Kyle Collings, Ben Elliott, Jasmine Liew & Madeleine Hollis
Peer Support Leaders: Matthew Robbins, Tayla Meyers, Eva Gregson, Skye Maritz, Abigail Mould, Lauren Parnham Shone, Zavier Rowe, Hayley Browne, Samantha Whiley, Isabelle Metaxas, Matilda Meizis & Julia Hipwell
Wellbeing Captains: Karissa Valkanis & Alex Vujmilovic
Sports Captains: Rohan Edirisuriya, Grace Cunningham, Aisha Woon & Claire Paterson
SRC Executive Team:
SRC President Likhita Kalagotla
SRC Vice President Andy Chesterfield
SRC Administrator Laksheya Dayashanker
SRC Administrator Max Tedford
Sustainability Captains: Katie Lim & Isabella Devlin
Assistant House Captains:
Year 8 Lucas Jiang, Dev Danju, Harold Xu & Chloe Foo
Year 9 Yedarm Choi, Joelin Ciby, Babishan Suthakaran & Luke Evans
Year 10 Jasmine Liew, Lisa Lau, Sofia Botea & Cam Rios Mendoza
Year 11 Hasan Faisal, Antonios Plokamakis, Mackenzie Eitzen & Audriana Phan
Assistance Sports Captains
Year 8 Emma Marriott, Gabriela Castillo Del Campo & Annabella Wu-Zhu
Year 9 Izzy Swilks, Amani Tusevljak & William McGregor
Year 10 Ashika Sunkara
Year 11Maddison Modin, Lulu Yao, Sharmi Kantheepan & Cassie Weir
SRC Year-Level Representatives
Year 8 Aarna Raja, Zoe Treblico & Chanelle Perera
Year 9 Shradha Kumar, Babishan Suthakaran, David Evans & Nicholas Gulbenkian
Year 10Tayla Meyers & Lisa Lau
Year 11Michiko Versluis, Patrick Huang, Alexis, Ishi Singh, Isha Dabke & Leon Wang
Peer Support Mentors
Camila Rios, Vaiga Mahendra, Alveera Sharma, Sahiba Kaur, Hannah Sims, Tharuli Higgoda, Fergie Natasha Loyola, Elliana Taylor, Zoe Tamvakologos, Matilda Miezis, Neha Kanagaraja, Aya Van Schie, Nikita Mathur, Jocelyn Subramaniam, Sophie Corea, Cleopatra Haralambopoulos, Mayuka Sakamoto, Ashika Sunkara, Ayesha Sofia, Ysabel Botea, Zara Georgiadis, Hannah Kim, Juia Yu, Michaella Yuen, Haiden Woodward, Inka Nebel, Mia Huang, Mishka Chaudhry, Isabel Metaxas, Caleb Lau, Gia Shiv, Sophie Beatrice, Rocha Leao, Hayley Tan, Ali Jourabchiyan, Jasmine Liew, Lisa Lau, Charlotte Petersen, Summer Lay, Evie Moody, Sally Jiao, Carly Zeng, Tabassum Towhid, Caelan Vo, Lily Gacovski, Marium Sazzad, Astha Kudarihalmath, Leah Astafiev, Sarah Becker, Paige Bretherton, Marcus Chee, Jasmine Dodd, Frances Hollis, Brooke Johannesen, Leonardo Ramos Abarca, Jamin Tang, William Trumble, Dhruv Saini, Mikaela Ferris & Alex Lam
All Student leaders will be presented with their badges early in 2024.
NOTE: Performing Arts Captains and All Year 7 student leadership positions will be confirmed in 2024.
I look forward to working closely with all student leaders in 2024.
Bianca Saathoff
Director of Student Leadership
Reflecting on an Empowering Leadership Training Experience
On the 29th of November, Brentwood’s student leaders were given the privilege of attending a Leadership Training Program run by our guests, Yellow Arrow. It was with great pleasure that we were accompanied by three of their professional leadership counsellors, Felicity Neeson, Carolyn King, and Ahmad Nisar.
Before getting into the “heavier stuff”, the session started with a few get-to-know-you activities through games and icebreakers. Since we were all probably half awake and feeling socially anxious, this more or less gave us leaders a good chance to speak and get to know one another without crumpling into a ball and embarrassing ourselves.
Throughout the day, the training program provided us with useful insight into what it truly means to be a running leader of our school community, along with the responsibilities that come with it.Each of these activities which involved understanding our personality types and how they resonate with others, formulating and presenting speeches with knowledge of content and execution, as well as brainstorming potential ideas for the coming year ahead, aided in developing the skills and traits of the type of leaders that we aspire to be moving forward.
This was definitely an experience I was glad to be a part of, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the amazing support from Ms Saathoff and the crew of Yellow Arrow.
“Leadership is caught, not taught.” – Felicity Neeson
Truong LamYear 12 Jacaranda House Captain
Meet our 2024 College Captains
Please listen to the latest 'BrentCast' featuring the 2024 school captains and Tim Columbus discussing why they became school captains and the leadership opportunities for students at Brentwood.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/70byroZKAyWkOGh7Cq4Buh?si=WiGpDOcHScurm2NbZoXgDQ
AROUND THE LIBRARY
The library will close at 4pm on Friday 8th December to enable staff to complete a stock take on all library resources.
We will reopen again at the start of the 2024 school year.
Students are reminded to return all overdue books and stock up on holiday reading by Friday.
Merry Christmas and happy reading,
The Library Staff