Learning at Brinbeal Secondary College is promotes our values of aspiration and achievement for all students.
Year 11 & 12
In Years 11 & 12 we will offer students both Senior Secondary Pathway options; the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), including the Vocational Major (VM) and the Victorian Pathways Certificate.
Detailed information about these options can be found on the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority website. We will add Brinbeal Secondary College specific information as we add each year level.
VCE Subject Offerings for 2027
Health & Physical Education
Health & Human Development Unit 1 & 2
VCE Health and Human Development takes a broad and multidimensional approach to defining and understanding health. Students examine health (including the concepts of health and wellbeing, and health status) and human development as dynamic concepts that are subject to a complex interplay of biological, sociocultural and environmental factors, many of which can be acted upon by people, communities and governments. Students consider the interaction between these factors and learn that health and human development is complex and influenced by the settings in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
Areas of Study:
Unit 1:
AOS 1: Concepts of Health
AOS 2: Youth Health and Wellbeing
AOS 3: Health and Nutrition
Unit 2:
AOS 1: Developmental Transitions
AOS 2: Youth Health Literacy
Assessment:
Five AOS school-based assessment tasks
Two end of unit exams
Pathways: VCE Health and Human Development Unit 3 & 4
Tertiary Pathways: Nursing and Midwifery, Allied Health, Biomedical Science and Medicine
Humanities
Business Management Unit 1 & 2
Business Management examines the ways businesses manage resources to achieve objectives, most notably profit. Follow the process of creating a business from the initial idea, through to the day-to-day management of a business. Identify business opportunities and motives, set your goals, identify business needs and threats and opportunities, market your products, and manage staff. By studying Business Management, students will analyse real-world case studies to see how businesses succeed or fail, discuss questions of ethics and social responsibility, and propose business ideas.
Areas of Study:
Unit 1:
AOS 1: The business Idea
AOS 2: Internal business environment
AOS 3: External business environment
Unit 2:
AOS 1: Legal Requirements
AOS 2: Marketing a business
AOS 3: Staffing a business
Assessment:
Six AOS school-based assessment tasks
Two end of unit exams
Pathways: VCE Business Management Unit 3 & 4
Tertiary Pathways: Commerce, Business, Management, Marketing & Human resources
Mathematics
General Mathematics Unit 1 & 2
General Mathematics Unit 1 and 2 caters for a range of student interests. Students are expected to be able to apply techniques, routines and processes involving rational and real arithmetic, sets, lists, tables and matrices, diagrams and geometric constructions, algorithms, algebraic manipulation, recurrence relations, equations and graphs, with and without the use of technology. They should have facility with relevant mental and by-hand approaches to estimation and computation. The use of numerical, graphical, geometric, symbolic, financial and statistical functionality of technology for teaching and learning mathematics, for working mathematically, and in related assessment, is incorporated throughout each unit.
Areas of Study:
Unit 1:
AOS1: Data analysis, probability and statistics
AOS2: Algebra, number and structure
AOS3: Functions, relations and graphs
AOS4: Discrete mathematics
Unit 2:
AOS1: Data analysis, probability and statistics
AOS2: Discrete mathematics
AOS3: Functions, relations and graphs
AOS4: Space and Measurement
Assessment:
Eight AOS school-based assessment tasks, including two Mathematical investigations
Two end of unit exams
Pathways: VCE General Maths Unit 3 & 4 or VCE Foundation Maths Unit 3 & 4
Tertiary Pathways: Education, Health - nursing or biomedicine, Science
Science
Biology Unit 1 & 2
Biology is the study of living things and how they have changed and evolved over time. It looks at how living things work, how they interact with each other and their environment, and how they survive and reproduce. In Biology, students explore life at different levels, from tiny molecules and cells to whole organisms. They learn how living things carry out life processes and how they continue to survive and pass on their characteristics. By studying Biology, students develop an understanding of how different parts of life are connected. They can see how ideas within Biology link together and how Biology connects with other areas of science.
Areas of Study:
Unit 1:
AOS1: How do cells function?
AOS2: How do plant and animal systems function?
AOS3: How do scientific investigations develop understanding of how organisms regulate their functions?
Unit 2:
AOS1: How is inheritance explained?
AOS2: How do inherited adaptations impact on diversity?
AOS3: How do humans use science to explore and communicate contemporary bioethical issues?
Assessment:
Six AOS school-based assessment tasks
Two end of unit exams
Pathways: VCE Biology Unit 3 & 4
Tertiary Pathways: Nursing and Midwifery, Allied Health, Biomedical Science and Medicine
