The Surf and Turf program offers an opportunity for students looking for adventure and personal development. The program runs for the full year and aims to help students develop valuable skills such as motivation, discipline, confidence, perseverance and respect for others.

Surf and Turf program components:
Surfing – both practical and theory components
Camp – coastal adventure camp (3 days, 2 nights)
Volunteer work – working within the local community
Environmental Conservation Awareness – theory component

Pre requisites for this elective are:

• Be a competent swimmer (able to swim 200m without stopping)
• Willingness to challenge yourself and be an active member of a team
• An interest in helping others

Approximate cost covering various excursions, transport and camp: $400

In this subject, you’ll get hands-on with both hand-drawing and digital design. You’ll learn key skills in technical drawing such as perspective and orthogonal drawings, that help you clearly show your design ideas.
You’ll also explore a mix of digital tools, including Adobe Creative Suite for 2D drawing and design, and TinkerCAD for 3D modelling. You’ll work through fun and practical projects that build your skills in drawing and modelling, helping you bring your design ideas to life.
By combining sketching with digital tools, you’ll learn how to plan, draw, and model objects used in engineering, product design, and creative industries. If you like creating things, solving problems, and using tech in creative ways, this subject is a great fit.

Ever wondered how tax or super works, what it takes to buy a house, or how to invest in stocks and crypto?
Skills for Life is a hands-on subject designed to give you the practical knowledge and confidence you’ll need beyond school. From cars and travel to finance, healthcare, and emerging industries, you’ll explore the real-world skills that will help you thrive, adapt, and make smart choices for your future.

Over the semester, you’ll dive into a range of life skill modules, such as:

You’ll take an active role in your learning by choosing the topics that matter most to you and building a personalised portfolio of evidence that showcases your growth. This may include projects, reflections, and a final presentation — giving you ownership and voice in your journey.

The subject also includes opportunities for:

Why choose Skills for Life?
Because it’s not just about finishing school — it’s about preparing for life after school. This subject will help you build confidence, adaptability, and agency, while connecting with topics that are relevant to your own goals, wellbeing, and future.

Who is it for?
Year 9 and 10 students who want to gain real-world skills, have more say in their learning, and feel prepared for the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Have you ever wondered what actually happens in your skin when you apply skincare? Why some hair products work better than others? Or how makeup artists create dramatic transformations for film, theatre and social media?

Beauty: Science, Industry and Practice explores the fast-growing beauty industry through a combination of science, creativity and hands-on learning. Students investigate the biology and chemistry behind skin, hair and cosmetic products while developing practical skills in skincare analysis, makeup application and hair styling.

Throughout the course, students learn how to critically analyse product ingredients, understand marketing claims, and explore how trends in the beauty industry are shaped by science, media and consumer culture. Each unit combines theoretical knowledge with practical experimentation, giving students the opportunity to apply what they learn in real-world scenarios.

Students will:

• Investigate the science of skin, hair and cosmetic products
• Analyse the ingredients and marketing claims of real beauty products
• Develop practical skills in skincare consultation, makeup techniques and hair styling
• Explore special effects makeup and creative looks
• Build a digital portfolio and lookbook website to showcase their work and learning
• Complete a client-style final project integrating skincare, makeup and hair design

World of Work investigates work and its place in work settings, industries and society. The study explores the vocational, economic, social and cultural aspects of work and incorporates theoretical and practical investigations of these functions. Students examine trends and patterns in Australian workplaces and industries as well as significant issues affecting Australian industries and analyse industry responses to these issues. A key feature of World of Work is the Workplace Learning that students are required to undertake for Term 2 and 4. The range of personal, community and work settings which students experience, supports the development of work-related skills, which are integral to the study and seen as essential for entry-level employees and for life in general. This subject has enrolment conditions that require approval from Head of Year, Wellbeing and the Careers and Pathways team. Student’s who complete World of Work will complete the VET Multi-trade in the other Semester to build their skills and knowledge in the construction industry.

In this subject, students will follow the design process in response to client briefs from the Industrial, Environmental, and Communication fields of design.

Students will experiment with a variety of methods, media and materials, including pencil rendering, technical drawing, painting, model-making, and digital methods, with students able to access all programs in the Adobe CC suite.

Students will build their awareness of how designers use the elements and principles of design to communicate ideas visually.

This area of study leads into VCE Visual Communication Design Unit 1 – 4, and will be both practical and theory based.

Please note, students will require an A3 visual diary if they choose this subject.

Sport, Fitness & Recreation is a lead in to our VCE VET Sport & Recreation subject in Years 11 and 12. Students participate in a practical and theory class each week where they explore inclusive sports, coaching and officiating, organizing sport and recreation events, group fitness and lifelong physical activity. This class challenges students to think from a facilitator's view and not a participant's as they help with various school carnivals throughout the year.

This year-long F-Block covers the content of the HLTAID014 Provide Advanced First Aid and HLTAID015 Provide Advanced Resuscitation and Oxygen Therapy certificates. Some of the skills students will learn are how to resuscitate unconscious patients with the assistance of oxygen, how to manage traumatic bleeds and serious injuries, how to administer medications, and how to coordinate a team response in a multiple casualty incident.

As a general pre-requisite for this course, students should have completed the Year 9 St John Ambulance Youth course and been successful in acquiring their HLTAID014 Provide First Aid certificate. However, an exception will be made for any student who externally attains a Provide First Aid certificate prior to the end of this year.

Course Cost: $100
Projected Costs for Obtaining Certificates: HLTAID014 ($275), HLTAID015 ($175)

Any student selecting this subject must be enrolled, or go through the process of enrolling, as a St John Ambulance Youth member within the school. Any students undertaking the certificates will require a USI. Students may opt out of undertaking the assessments for the certificates if the cost of these is too difficult to manage.

Unit 1:

Media Forms, Representation and Australian Stories Students will investigate the relationship between audiences and the media and how they are constantly changing and how audiences engage with the media.

Students will develop research skills to investigate and analyse selected narratives focusing on the influence of media professionals on production genre and style with a focus on Australian fictional and non fictional narratives.

Students will develop an understanding of how media texts are constructed and put this onto practice with the development and production of media products in a variety of media forms.

Career Options

Actor, Journalist, Arts Administrator, Make-up Artist, Audio Visual Technician, Multimedia Developer, Camera Operator, Projectionist, Copywriter, Scriptwriter, Desktop Publisher, Set Designer, Film and TV Editor, Sound Mixer, Film and TV Lighting Operator, Sound Technician, Film and TV Producer, Stage Manager, Film Critic, Web Designer/Developer, Graphic Designer, Media Teacher

In this year-long subject students complete Unit 1 of the Visual Communication Design. Students learn how designers visually communicate concepts when designing messages, objects, environments and interactive experiences, and address design problems for services, systems, spaces, and places. They use research, drawings, mock-ups, models, and prototypes to develop design ideas and solutions. Visual Communication Design is more than just appearance and function, but considers sustainable and strategic solutions for larger systems and services.

Unit 1: Finding, reframing and resolving design problems

This unit teaches students about human-centered design, research, and effective communication of design ideas. It emphasises the role of design in promoting sustainability and circular practices, and how design decisions are influenced by various factors.

Students will engage with research tasks to design problems and create a plan to solve them, while also participating in critiques to receive feedback. The unit aims to help students integrate divergent and convergent thinking in their design projects and develop their understanding of good design across specialist fields.

Students complete research tasks as well as engage with practical design problems to solve for a ‘client’. They complete designs in the field of messages and objects.

Unit 1: How are behaviour and mental processes shaped?

Students investigate the structure and functioning of the human brain, and the role it plays in the mental processes and behaviour. They will also explore brain plasticity and the influence that brain damage may have on a person’s psychological functioning.

Students will predict and explain the development of thoughts, emotions and behaviours by using psychological models and theories. They will examine the contribution of classical and contemporary knowledge from Western and non-Western societies, including Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples.

Unit 1: Design Practices
In this unit, students explore how designers work to solve real-world problems through the creation of innovative textile products. They investigate how designers generate ideas, conduct research, and communicate concepts using drawing techniques. Students work through the Double Diamond design process to identify a need or opportunity, develop a design brief, and apply design thinking strategies such as critical, creative, and speculative thinking. They learn to collaborate in teams, just like professional designers, while using visualisations and drawings to propose innovative solutions.

Students then bring their designs to life by testing and experimenting with different textile materials, tools, and techniques. Through hands-on making and safe workshop practices, they develop a final product using a scheduled production plan. Throughout the process, they evaluate their ideas, materials, and teamwork to improve their outcomes and refine their design practice. This unit builds practical skills, creativity, and confidence in working with textiles and is ideal for students interested in fashion, interiors, or sustainable product design. Students are expected to enter their textiles product into the annual senior art and design show at Dromana College.

If you are interested in health promotion, community health, local and global heath issues or environmental health or even if you are not sure which health science area is for you, this subject can help you find your area of interest.

VCE Health and Human Development takes a broad and multidimensional approach to defining and understanding health and wellbeing. Students investigate the World Health Organisation’s definition and other interpretations of health and wellbeing.

Students consider Australian and global contexts as they investigate variations in health status between populations and nations.

VCE Health and Human Development is designed to foster health literacy. Students develop their ability to navigate information, to recognise and enact supportive behaviours and to evaluate healthcare initiatives and interventions. VCE Health and Human Development offers students a range of pathways including further formal study in areas such as health promotion, community health research and policy development, humanitarian aid work, allied health practices, education and the health profession.

Unit 1: Understanding health and wellbeing
In this unit, students are introduced to the key concepts of health, including the factors that influence health and wellbeing, with a focus on the lifespan stage of youth. Students explore how nutrition plays a key role in the health status of individuals and conduct an extended inquiry about a major health and wellbeing issue associated with youth in today’s society.