Brighton Secondary School

Brighton Secondary School (formerly Brighton High School) is in North Brighton, a beach suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The school provides secondary education from year 8 to 12, with special interest programs in music, volleyball, 'Think Bright', and STEM. Program entry into music and volleyball are competitive with the requirement of auditions or try outs. Entry into Think Bright and STEM are via written application, workshop and a conversation with staff.

This article is about the Adelaide school. For other uses, see Brighton High School (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Brighton Secondary College.
Brighton Secondary School
Location
Adelaide
,
South Australia

Australia
Coordinates35.0038°S 138.5198°E / -35.0038; 138.5198
Information
TypePublic
MottoLatin: Fac Omnia Bene English: Do all things well.
Established1952
PrincipalTony Lunniss
Faculty118
Enrolment1500
CampusUrban
Colour(s)Navy blue, green & gold
Websitewww.brightonss.sa.edu.au

The school is involved in the F1 in Schools, an engineering initiative from the United Kingdom. The program is designed to educate students in engineering pathways, and the school has had teams in the national competition for the last three years.

Uniform

Brighton Secondary School's uniform consists mainly of blue and green striped polo shirts, displaying the school's logo with charcoal shorts or trousers, and blue and green checkered dresses. Tied back hair, no piercings, and leather lace-up shoes are also required. All uniforms must be purchased from a specified retailer, Devon Clothing. Not strictly conforming to the school's uniform policy can result in discipline, with yard duties and extended school days being most common.[1]

F1 in Schools Program

In the F1 in Schools community, Brighton Secondary School has 2 World Champion teams and 5 podium finishes (inclusive). Multiple teams from the school have progressed to the world competition including:

  • Cold Fusion (2012) (1st Place)[2]
  • Odyssey (2013) (6th Place)[3]
  • Precision Racing (2015) (10th Place)
  • Infinitude (2016) (2nd Place)[4]
  • Aurora (2017) (2nd Place)
  • Horizon (2018) (1st Place)[5]

Some of the teams were collaboration teams with other nations, notably, Odyssey (Republic of Ireland) and Aurora (Germany). Infinitude was also a collaboration team between Brighton Secondary School and St Bede's College (Mentone).

The school's team from 2016, Infinitude, currently holds the World Record for the fastest car at 0.916 seconds.[6][7]

Digital Learning and Apple Distinguishment

Brighton Secondary School is an Apple Distinguished School; students in Year 8 and 9 are required to purchase and bring an Apple iPad to the school, while students from Year 10 to Year 12 are provided with a region-locked MacBook Air. If the student completes Year 12, the MacBook is transferred to their ownership, otherwise it is returned to the Department of Education.[8]

Large components of the school, such as textbooks and work submission, is done digitally rather than on paper, though some lessons still require physical textbooks, worksheets, or books.

The Digital Learning Policy states that the school has permission to monitor ("monitor the content [...] conduct live monitoring") and publicly display information on the student's iPad or MacBook ("Students' screens may be shared on any of the large display screens at the school") at any time. This can be performed by any teachers request, or by use of the required Apple Classroom or Meraki Mobile Device Management apps.[9] Cisco Meraki's MDM also has the ability to see a live-view of the location of the device. All internet usage of any device on the school's network is monitored, filtered, and logged by the school, via use of Meraki systems and CyberHound software. CyberHound's ability to remove HTTPS security from webpages (SSL Stripping) and replace it with a falsified certificate (a Man-in-the-Middle attack) allows the school to inconspicuously monitor any specific searches or passwords the student enters.[10]

2018 hack

On 2 October 2018 news broke to The Advertiser[11] and HIT 107[12] that the school had been hacked by a group of students. It is believed that personal information, passwords, and security cameras were included in the breach. The school's principal, Olivia O'Neill stated in response: "On Friday 21 September I became aware that a small number of students had illegally obtained and used staff log-in details to gain unauthorised access to our school's computer systems". The school has said they are not sure of how much information has been accessed, and have not said how the information was accessed. The students had access to the Meraki and CyberHound security systems.

Principals
  • S.L. Tregenza (1952-1962)
  • W.J. Bentley (1963-1968)
  • W.E. Falkenberg (1969-1975)
  • R.M. Farrow (1976-1987)
  • G Nicol (1988-1993)
  • N Schupelius (1993-2001)
  • P Mitchell (2001-2003)
  • T Potts (2004)
  • O O'Neill (2005–2018)
  • T Carellas (2019-July)
  • T Lunniss (2019–present)

Notable alumni

References
  1. "BSS Uniform Policy 2018" (PDF). Brighton SS. Brighton Secondary School. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  2. "Aussie kids again win F1 In Schools". 2012-11-10. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  3. Fast Cars, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2013-12-03, retrieved 2019-10-05
  4. Infinitude. "Infinitude | The F1 in Schools World Record Holder". infinitudeaustralia.github.io. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  5. "World Finals 2018". F1 in schools Global. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  6. "F1 in schools Global". F1 in schools Global. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  7. Infinitude. "Infinitude | The F1 in Schools World Record Holder". infinitudeaustralia.github.io. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  8. "BRIGHTON SECONDARY SCHOOL - BSS-Digital-Learning-Policy-2018_May.pdf" (PDF). Brighton Secondary School. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  9. "BRIGHTON SECONDARY SCHOOL - BSS-Digital-Learning-Policy-2018_May.pdf" (PDF). Brighton Secondary School. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  10. "ClearView - Capabilities Defined Info Sheet | CyberHound". CyberHound. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  11. "Adelaidenow.com.au | Subscribe to The Advertiser for exclusive stories".
  12. "Students Behind A Serious IT Breach at Brighton Secondary School | hit107 Adelaide".
  13. "Candid camera". Stateline South Australia. ABC Adelaide. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
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