Brentwood Secondary College is a co-educational public high school in Glen Waverley, Victoria. Glen Waverley South Primary School adjoins the College, and they share the use of an oval for sports activities. Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... Glen Waverley is a large suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

History of the College

Brentwood Secondary College opened in 1969. The current mottos are “Learning for Leadership”, "Hug it out" and "Its on". The College logo is a 'B' in a square.

In recent years the number of students attending the College has increased. Brentwood currently has about 1350 students enrolled in years 7 to 12. The year levels are divided into junior school (years 7 and 8) with 3 year level coordinators for each year level, middle school (years 9 and 10) and senior school (years 11 and 12) with 2 year level coordinators for each year level in Middle & Senior school.

College Facilities

In 2006, a major redevelopment of the college's facilities to the Science, Math and gymnasium complex costing in excess of $4 million was spent, with Government contributing $2.49 million and the College community contributing $1.74 million. The upgrades included new science and math class room, a new gymnasium with new staff & PE teaching rooms with an up stairs table tennis area.

The College consists of the buildings blocks called 'A', 'C', 'G' and 'J' blocks, a performance centre and a gym, a Senior Learning Centre and multiple portable classrooms. 'A' block is generally for History, Geography, Commerce and Music classes; 'C' block is usually for English and LOTE; 'G' block holds science and mathematics classes; 'J' block has the facilities for textiles, woodwork, art, food technology. There are computer rooms in 'G' block has just been rebuilt with brand new science laboratories and math class rooms with a new computer pod. The portables are coded 'P'. The number of portables has increased over the years due to increasing enrollment numbers.

Brentwood has often been noted for its lackluster, underfunded music department. The state of musical integrity has been demonstrated over the years by the poorly organized battle of the bands and musical presentation nights which always generate notoriously low attendees and less than average reviews. The schools current instrument collection consists of one bass guitar and one electric guitar, the latter of which is no longer operational.

Brentwood currently has 4 computer labs (1 in A,C,G,P Blocks) and a MAC LAB With 12 Computers in J Block. Brentwood also has 2 computer pods (1 in A & G Block) in addition to the computers in the Library. The Library contains a network printer which allows A4 & A3 colour and black printing which is also capable of scanning and sending files to the network. Brentwood also has plenty of smart boards installed in 2 rooms in G Block, 1 in C Block and 1 in P Block which assist in the teaching of Information Technology and Science.

Brentwoood currently has 2 gyms, the old hall/gym which is planned to be turned into a performance centre and the new one which was just been built under a major redevelopment of the school. The school currently has three basketball courts.

Brentwood SC has been successful in gaining funds from the State Government through the Leading Schools Funding program to build a Thinking, Learning and Creativity environment for their Year 7 program. With the Government contributing $600,000 and an expected building project costing $743,000, with The College covering the remaining required funds. New construction for the centre will take place at the end of C block during the first half of 2007.

Subjects and Studies Overview

In year 7, students complete mathematics, English, LOTE, science and physical education for the whole year with a semester of history, geography, music and art. A term is spent in each of: information(1semester) technology, textiles, food technology and woodwork.

During the middle years students are able to choose from a selection of semester (two terms) length studies, with the only mandatory subjects being mathematics, English and LOTE. Subjects on offer are: “English (EN), Mathematics (MA), Science (SC), Commerce (CO), Geography (GG), History/Social Science (HS), German (GE), Japanese (JA), Art (AR), Music (MU), Drama (CA), Physical Education (PE), Health (HL), Woodwork (WW), Food Technology (FT), Textiles (TX), Information Technology (IT), and Technology (TN)” (Brentwood Secondary College website). Though, they are required to earn enough points in each discipline in order to be able to continue into year 11.

Brentwood Secondary College currently offers 32 VCE subjects and access to a variety of VET courses. The College does well in VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) with many students receiving high ENTERs (Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank). The Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER) is the national Australian tertiary entrance score, administered by the AVCC (Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee). ...

In 2003 Brentwood Secondary College offered 35 3/4 VCE subjects and 5 VET certificates with 184 students enrolled in VCE and 11 in VET certificates. 92% of these students applied for tertiary places. 100% of the students received satisfactory VCE completions. The satisfactory of VET module completions was only 36%. The median study score (out of 50) was 32. The percentage of 40+ study scores acquired being 13%.

LOTE Programme

Students are required to complete 3 years of language study. Brentwood Secondary College’s LOTE programme offers Japanese and German.

Brentwood Secondary College has a sister school in Japan. In alternating years Ono Senior High School and Brentwood send students to the other school to be hosted by students' families.

References

"THẦY GIÁO GỐC VIỆT DỤ DỖ NỮ SINH 17 TUỔI ĐI TRỐN", Viet Bao Online. (Vietnamese) 
"2003: Your school's VCE performance", The Age, 2003-12-18. (English) 
Brentwood Secondary College: Middle School. Retrieved on 2006-11-06.
Brentwood Secondary College's Newsletter. Retrieved on 2006-11-19.
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Kumon method

Brentwood Secondary College also has a Kumon Centre on A Block on Mondays and Thursday from 3:30pm - 7:15pm Toru Kumon was the Japanese founder of Kumon, a world famous math and reading program for children to do work quickly. ...

External links

• Brentwood Secondary College: Official website
  
• Ono Senior High School: Sister School's Official website (both in Japanese and in English)