Year 11

This week students have been focusing on their wellbeing during Tutor Time, and taking part in a short meditation one day, and a mini yoga session on another day. They have also been completing their approaches to learning for the term. Some students may have felt that they haven’t put in as much effort as normal, as after spending a whole day on Zoom lessons, understandably they struggle finding motivation to continue studying in an evening. I’ve had many conversations on Zoom with individual students this term, and one of them recently likened what they are all going through to ‘Groundhog Day’! I thought this was a great analogy to sum up what they (and us) are feeling.

Message of Support from Cate Campbell

One of our talented Yr 11 swimmers, Erik Scott, was fortunate to receive a morale boosting personal message from Cate Campbell, the amazing Australian Olympic swimmer and flag bearer at the recent Tokyo games, who has overcome some very challenging setbacks and has remained positive and resilient, refusing to give up. You can watch this lovely message by Cate here – it is relevant for many of us.

Year 11 Careers

Last week we formally welcomed in our Year Assembly our new Careers Advisors, Mrs Justine Fowler and Ms Clare Hurst who are planning on working closely with Yr 11 through the remainder of this year and next year. They both bring a wealth of experience and have introduced themselves to the year group and will make Yr 11 their focus more so after Yr 12 finish school this term. However, if there are any urgent conversations or information that Yr 11 students are seeking immediately, their contact email is careers@redlands.nsw.edu.au.

I hope you all have a great week.

Ms Rebecca Mountain
Yr 11 Advisor
rmountain@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9908 6462