Brighton Secondary 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. 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.
F1 in Schools Program
In the F1 in Schools community, Brighton Secondary School has 2 World Champion teams and 5 podium finishes. Multiple teams from the school have progressed to the world competition including:
Cold Fusion
Odyssey
Precision Racing
Infinitude
Aurora
Horizon
Some of the teams were collaboration teams with other nations, notably, Odyssey and Aurora. Infinitude was also a collaboration team between Brighton Secondary School and St Bede's College. The school's team from 2016, Infinitude, currently holds the World Record for the fastest car at 0.916 seconds.
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. 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 and publicly display information on the student's iPad or MacBook at any time. This can be performed by any teachers request, or by use of the required Apple Classroom or MerakiMobile Device Management apps. 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 and replace it with a falsified certificate allows the school to inconspicuously monitor any specific searches or passwords the student enters.
2018 hack
On 2 October 2018 news broke to The Advertiser and HIT 107 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.
