Year 11

Young Women’s Leadership Seminar

Last week all of the Yr 11 girls were invited to attend the Parliament of NSW Young Women’s Leadership Seminar to discuss women in leadership. The education team run this program to provide an opportunity for students to meet an inspiring leader who can speak on personal and professional experiences to help young women aspire to leadership roles. Keynote presenter was Joann Wilkie, Deputy Secretary for the Economic Strategy and Productivity Group at NSW Treasury, who described many of the challenges she has faced as a woman in leadership positions and a sole parent of two young children. The keynote speaker was followed by an engaging and outspoken panel of female NSW politicians, Bronnie Taylor, Minister for Mental Health, Regional Youth and Women, Natalie Ward, Minister for Sport, Multiculturalism, Seniors and Veterans, and Kate Washington, Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services and Disability Inclusion.

Some of the empowering words from the panel included:

“being passionate and caring is a Super Power”

“don’t tolerate being told you are emotional as a woman”

“stop worrying about what everyone else thinks”

“you can only control how you react”

“never be ashamed as women how we do things”

It was great to see many of our Yr 11 students asking thoughtful and challenging questions on the chat function during the webinar.

Mullets for Mental Health

Several of our Yr 11 young men have joined ‘Mullets for Mental Health’ this month, an initiative run by ‘Black Dog Institute’ to raise vital funds for mental health research. There have already been several outrageous haircuts carried out as can be seen below, with even Mr Richard Millham, one of our Yr 11 Tutors, coming on board and shaving his hair into a mullet. Well done to all of those involved and a particular mention goes to Finn Brookes and Hugh Sellar who arranged this event and have helped collectively, with all the other participants, to raise over $4,200 so far.

Please click here to donate to this important and worthwhile cause.

Redlands Ballet and Dance Academy Dance Awards 2021

Congratulations to the following students who have received Dance Awards for 2021:

Dedication: Isabella Kendrigan and Edwina Magnus 
Service: Isabella Illic 
Excellence: Alyssa Price and Elina Filatova 
Leadership: Sara Vencalkova and Kyle Banfield 

Well done also to the Runners Up:

Riley Harrington-Hopkins
Katie Wightwick
Skye Kieran
Mia Kloiser-Jones
Maya Koppers

It has been a particularly challenging year for all of the Dance Academy students and they have all done so well in maintaining their practice and performance.

End of Yr 11 Examinations

A reminder that the Yr 11 end of year examinations will now take place online through iLearn. There is a webinar scheduled for Wednesday 15 September at 6pm to provide further details and parents should have received an email to invite them and their children to this event. The webinar will be recorded for those unable to attend on the evening.

I hope you all have a great week.

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