Brighton Secondary College
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- There is also Brighton Secondary School in Brighton, South Australia
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| Name |
Brighton Secondary College |
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| Address |
120 Marriage Road |
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| Suburb |
East Brighton, Victoria 3187 |
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| Established |
1955 |
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| Type |
State School |
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| Religion |
Secular |
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| Students |
Approx. 1100 |
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| Years |
7 to 12 |
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| Principal |
Mrs Julie Podbury |
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| Nickname |
BSC, formerly Brighton High |
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| Colours |
Green (Sports and Junior uniform) Purple (VCE jumpers) |
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| Motto |
ENDEAVOUR |
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| Publications |
Highlights - monthly school publication |
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| Yearbook |
Voyager |
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Brighton Secondary College is a Year 7 to 12 co-educational. In 2007 it is expected that over 1150 student will be enrolled. Established in 1955, the College is set in spacious grounds in the City of Bayside, situated in Brighton East, Victoria, Australia.
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[edit] Grounds and facilities
Having prominent grounds and facilities, the school boasts many features such as a gym (two basketball courts capacity, ability to use two courts separately with floating screen, canteen, drama & music facilities, high-capacity hall. The school also features an Arts and Materials Section, Science Wing, VCE Study Centre and more.
The main part of the school consists of the N-corridor and C-corridor. The N corridor houses the bulk of most junior school classes, but is also used for other years. At recess and lunchtimes it is known for being congested. All Year 7&8 lockers are located in this corridor.
The "C" corridor houses "C2" computer lab, and Staff Rooms. Wider than the N corridor, it only spans North-south. History reveals that a portion of this corridor was burnt sometime in the 1990's. But now, it serves for Year 10 accelerated student lockers. At the end of the C corridor is the C Corridor bypass, or better known for housing Year 10 lockers (which some may agree as the loudest of corridors). This connects the C corridor to the East Corridor and Senior School Area.
The E corridor consists of two parts. The northern section housing a majority of senior school studies and classes. In between both sections is a sheltered walkway to bicycle sheds to main grounds. The southern section houses the "Science Wing." Four classrooms dedicated to Science operations, and a computer pod.
[edit] Technology
Brighton Secondary hosts new technology. Three of the four science rooms, most computer labs, and 3 classrooms contain "Smartboards'" They are advanced interactive multimedia hubs. Video/DVD playback, sound, and projection.
Many teacher use smartboards. They feature a normal projection onto a specially designed board. This board has sensors - when using an electronic white board marker will project 'electronic ink' onto the smartboard. It also is fully interactive, such as using an advance touch-screen monitor (in this case, touch-screen projector). Brighton Secondary is one of the first of these Smartboards across Victoria.
The school contains 4 computer rooms, and 3 'pods.' Each computer room is able to house a full class, and are dedicated to IT and Computer subjects. L2/L4 rooms contain the newest of Computers. N4 located on the N corridor also has computer purchased in early 2005 - N4 is the computer room which lacks a "Smartboard." C2 is the other computer lab, also open at lunchtimes for students to complete assignments. The 'pods' are built in sections of computer labs, which are often used for student group tasks. They serve as quick access computers, which are located in the Art Section, Science Area and one intershared between two classrooms.
[edit] Discovery Centre
In 2006 a new portion of the school named the "Discovery Centre" was commissioned into use. Officially opened on the behalf of the Minister of Education the centre brings in new incentives for students integrating a World Class learning environment, with the advantage of IT rich surroundings. At current, use is purely for Year 9 students.
Construction commenced mid-2005. Although there was rumour that the Discovery Centre should have opened at the start of 2005. With 2006 Year 10 student enduring the hardship of replacement classes in the Hall.
[edit] Student Distribution
The school offers Victorian Secondary School years 7 through 12, with VCE offered as their years 11 and 12 option. This school does not offer the International Baccalaureate.
In 2004, the school had a large young population (eight year-7 classes of approximately 25-30 students each) ranging up to a significantly smaller elder population (five year-12 classes of approximately 18-22 students each).
The school offers extensive exchange opportunities; the majority of exchange students tend to be from Asia (most specifically from Japan, though rarely from its sister school there).
[edit] Student representation
The student body is represented by a Student Representative Council (five students drawn from each year level at teachers' discretion and voted by peers), junior, middle school and senior school sports captains (two for each of the four houses at each of years 7-8, years 9-10 and years 11-12 - 24 in total), Culture captains for each of the houses (usually year 11 students) and finally year 12 captains (each of whom has a council of four year-11 students, excluding the debating and school captains).
The SRC plays a prominent role. Elected they serve to represent their year level in the upper hierarchy in school. They also run casual clothes days, numerous special events and fundraising.
[edit] Year 12 Captains
- School Captains: 1 male and 1 female year-12 student (usually heads of the SRC) who become the public face for the school. As with all political races, winners are usually predictable. Kind of like a presidential nomination requiring a billion-dollar net worth.
- Vice School Captains: 1 male and 1 female year-12 student who act as understudies for the school captains.
- Education Captain: 1 year-12 student with a council of 4 year-11 students that looks out for educational issues/interests among the student body. They seek out information such as "top 10 most enjoyable subjects" and advertise to promote study. One created a super-hero alias at the school to highlight the issue of bullying. The super-hero alias in question has been granted to every subsequent education captain so far. They also aid the school's Tournament of the Minds interests. Student morale, due to potent relevance to education and study, is often affected by Education Captains.
- Student Issues Captain: 1 year-12 student with a council of four year-11 students that looks out for social issues among the student body. These include bullying and smoking (not providing cigarettes, but rather discouraging it).
- Debating Captain: 1 year-12 student who looks after the school's debating team interests.
- Social Captain: 1 year-12 student with a council of 4 additional year 12 students that looks out for year 12 social events/interests (such as the year 12 formal).
- Arts Captain: 1 year-12 student with a council of 4 year-11 students that looks out for artistic issues within the school. This involves aiding in advertising for school plays and performances (although not running them).
- Sports/Sporting Captains: 2 year-12 student with a council of 4 year-11 students that look out for sports interests within the student community. These often co-ordinate with the senior house-captains to aid in house co-ordination for locations at sporting events.
[edit] SEAL Program
Brighton Secondary College offers a Select Entry Accelerated Learning program. The College is an approved Department of Education "Select Entry Acceleration Provider" to the Bayside Network. The first set started in 1999, whilst later years have the option of finishing school one year early.
The "Guinea Pigs" of the program (class of '04 who started in 1999) were originally placed in a large room of which one wall was made entirely of large paneled glass windows. This earned the classroom the title of "The Fishbowl" and was later used to explain the discomfort of new students (who may have felt isolated due to the separation of their class). Ironically the "Smart Kid" stigma that accelerated students were marked with was most embraced by those that were put through the 'fishbowl' experience. Today in 2006 room "N2" still remains the gateway for new student to begin their learning.
[edit] Houses
Brighton Students are split into four different houses:
- Lonsdale (Yellow)
- Phillip (Green)
- Murray (Red)
- Grant (Purple)
Throughout the year some key events such as: Chorals, Swimming, Athletics have house cup winners for each house.
This year winner of the Chorals and Swimming from a long absence of 1st place victories Lonsdale! And this year Murray wins the Athletics.
