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Form of workEstablished in 1955, Brighton Secondary College (BSC) is a co-educational, government secondary school catering for nearly 1000 students from Years 7- 12. BSC is situated on Bunurong Country approximately 15km from Melbourne. The School's SFOE is 0.157and the staffing profile includes 3 Assistant Principals, 10 Leading Teachers/Learning Specialists, 68.4 (EFT)Teachers and 23 Education Support staff. Several vacancies exist across these teams.
Brighton Secondary College is guided by its vision, mission and values.
Vision: To provide a safe place where all have the opportunity to achieve personal excellence through collaboration based on respect, empathy, and integrity.
Mission: To develop future-ready global citizens. We strive to prepare young people to thrive and contribute in the world beyond school. We do this by creating responsible, empathetic citizens who are adaptable, life-long learners, and critical thinkers.
Values: respect, excellence, curiosity, integrity, teamwork, and empathy.
The school delivers the Victorian curriculum and the VCE. It offers a range of other enhanced curriculum offerings including the Select Entry Accelerated Learning (SEAL) Program for high achieving students, English, Humanities, Literature Enhancement Studies (EHLES), STEM, and Innovation and Enterprise streams. It is also an accredited International Baccalaureate World School offering the Diploma Program. Additionally, the school has an International Student Program.
There are many opportunities for students to get involved in the extensive co-curricular program, which includes the annual musical production and House Choral Festival, inter school Debating, an array of sporting competitions, community engagement programs, World Challenge program and overseas tours to our sister school in Japan.
Brighton Secondary College strives to help all students attain personal excellence. Through the whole school Personal Excellence Program, students have the opportunity to develop skills to achieve academic performance, build respectful relationships and consider pathways after schooling. The program is delivered across each year level so that content is targeted and relevant. The goals of the program are:
- to improve student wellbeing.
- to improve student engagement through developing social inclusion
- to develop student pathways so that all students have meaningful plans for post school destinations.
- to improve all students' capacity to achieve by explicitly teaching age-relevant study and organisational habits.
The school is committed to providing inclusive, comprehensive, and wide-ranging educational opportunities to young people. This is reflected in the diverse range of academic and creative subjects offered and the excellent facilities, including a well-resourced library, drama centre, performing arts centre, careers room, media centre, sports stadium, and hockey/tennis field. BSC also has a state-of-the-art Science, Arts and Technology wing, appropriately named the da Vinci Centre.
Brighton Secondary College's VCE results, and tertiary entrance offers are consistently well above the State average.
