Provided by Andrew Fuller, this article is a great resource for parents of senior students with insight on how to assist their children.

Click here to read the article.

The Brentwood Green Team’s ‘Meat Free Monday’ cookbook, made by volunteers of the Green Team, has some plant-based recipes and useful resources to inspire you to take up this challenge.

Download a copy of the cookbook below and watch the message from our special friend of Brentwood.

Meat Free Monday Cookbook

As mentioned in our Year 7 2021 Parent Information session, have a read over some of the following articles which highlight the advantages of using devices with a stylus in the classroom.

The pen is mightier than the keyboard

Bring your own device to school

Inking Your Thinking

Should your students be using stylus pens?

‘Wean your teen off the Screen’ is advice from Clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller with strategies on how to reduce the amount of time that your children spend in front of screens each day.

Click here to access the article.

CSEF will be provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to help cover the costs of school camps, sports and excursions. Families holding a valid means-tested concession card for e.g. Veterans Affairs Gold Card, Centrelink Health Care Card (HCC) or Pensioner Concession Card (PCC) and Temporary Foster parents are eligible to apply.

A Special Consideration category exits for:

Refugee and Asylum seeker families and families on temporary protection or Safe Haven Visas who are not permanent residents and do not have access to Centrelink or a have a Health care Card.

Students in out of home care, including statutory kinship care or foster care.

Students who are 16 years or older and who hold a valid Concession Card (such as a Youth Allowance Health Care Card or Disability Pension Card) are eligible to apply for CSEF.

The allowance is paid to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, sports and excursions for the benefit of your child. The annual CSEF amount per student is $400 for secondary school students.

For more information about CSEF and information in other languages CSEF Information Click Here

Parents must manage the use of CSEF themselves, i.e. let the school know when you would like to apply it to an event.

CSEF Application Forms 2026 are attached on Compass under School Documentation, CSEF.

Please scan the completed Application Form and a copy of your Centrelink Card and email to brentwood.sc@education.vic.gov.au.

CSEF Applications are open for 2026 and will close for processing at the end of Term 2, 2026 for general applications. Special consideration category applicants are eligible to apply for CSEF in Terms 3 and 4.

College Tours

College Tours are a great way to see the college in action.

Please click here for tour dates in Term 3 2026.
Please click here for tour dates in Term 4 2026.

Author: Brenton Van Vliet

Parents Guide to Senior Years

Meat Free Monday

Technology Use At Brentwood

Wean Your Teen off the Screen

Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF)

College Tours