Year 11

Welcome

Dear Yr 11 Parents, a warm welcome to you all. I hope that you all had a relaxing break and ready for a busy Term 1. I would like to welcome the following new students to the Yr 11 cohort:

• Charlotte Davis (11 DB) 
• Paige Duyestyn (11 DB)
• Simone Franceschi (11 CY)
• Alvin Nathan (11 CY)
• Taylor Riddell  (11 MB)
• Elke Mueller (11 CB) 
• Orabella Cornelis (11 DB)
• Chirag Kowligi (11 MG)
  

I know our Yr 11 cohort will make these students feel welcome and supported.

I would also like to welcome the following new Tutors who are joining the Yr 11 Pastoral Team:

• Cowper Blue – Abigail Walker
• Cowper Yellow – Yuji Okawa
• Dumolo Blue – Lily Preschardt 
• McDouall Green – Jessica Lasky 
• Roseby White – Jimmy Tod-Hill 

Communication 

A reminder that subject related questions should be directed to your child’s teacher or relevant Subject Coordinator. If you are unable to find the necessary contacts, please contact your child’s Tutor who will be able to assist. 

Uniform 

Yr 11 are required to wear the Summer School Uniform Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and Sports Uniform on Thursday. 

Boys Senior ties are available to purchase from the Uniform shop or via Flexischools and Senior School badges can also be purchased. 

New Year, New Class

The first few days of a new year can be tricky and, often, not just for students. Dr Judith Locke’s article, ‘Help them process their first day of school’, offers some valuable, considered and balanced advice on how to navigate this sometimes delicate time of year. 

Flexischools – Canteen Ordering System. 

If students would like to purchase a hot or pre-prepared meal for Recess or Lunch, they will have to use the online purchasing system, Flexischools. While there will still be some snacks available for students to purchase in person at Recess and Lunch, the majority of meals will only be available for students to pre-order via Flexischools. 

COVID-19 Safe Practices. 

Mask Wearing

• While on campus, appropriate face masks are required to be worn by all students and staff in both indoor and outdoor settings.
• Students should wear their own masks to school.
• Masks are also required on both Transport NSW buses and Redlands buses. 

Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT)

• The NSW Government will be delivering RAT kits to all NSW schools this week and we will be in contact regarding specific times for parents to collect these tests from the Senior Campus later today.
• All Secondary School students will be required to administer Rapid Antigen Tests twice a week in the morning before coming to school. 
• Please conduct these tests on Mondays and Wednesdays.
• Students who return a negative Rapid Antigen Test will not need to communicate this result to the School.
• Students who return a positive Rapid Antigen Test will need to follow the steps as outlined under COVID-19 Positive Cases below. 

COVID-19 Positive Cases

Any student returning a positive Rapid Antigen or PCR Test will be required to follow NSW Health requirements which are currently:

• Isolate at home for 7 days following the positive test
• Leave isolation and return to school after 7 days if they have no symptoms (such as sore throat, runny nose, cough or shortness of breath)
• If they continue to have symptoms after 7 days, then remain in isolation until 24 hours after symptoms have resolved.
• If a student has a  siblings who becomes infected with COVID-19 they will need to isolate with them. 
• Positive Rapid Antigen Tests must be reported to both NSW Heath and the following Secondary School absentee email address:
• NSW Health: via the Service NSW App or website (https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/) SecondarySchool:ssabsence@redlands.nsw.edu.au

Online Learning Resources

Learning resources will be provided to all Yr 11 students who are isolating at home via iLearn. Yr 11 students should be independent with following up on their own work and email their IB/HSC Teachers if they  need to clarify any of the class work provided. There will not be zoom lessons for any student isolating at home. 

Hygiene 

Students must use the hand sanitising stations when arriving on campus and when entering classrooms. 

Cocurricular Activities

With the above measures in place, it is our aim that as many cocurricular activities as possible will resume from the start of the year. We are undertaking individual risk assessments for each activity to determine whether or not they can run and if so, the risk mitigation strategies required, to run them as safely as possible

Medical Appointments 

Outside of Covid-19 protocols, if you do need to organise a medical appointment, please try and organise this outside of school. Attendance is very important in Year 11 and 12 and students need to minimalism the amount of time they are taking off from school. 

Key Dates 

Week 1 A –  First day back – extended Tutor Time / Locker distribution. 

Week 5 A –  Student-Led Assembly (7-9) – Tuesday, Clean-Up Australia Day – Sunday 6 March, Year 11 Allwell Test – Year 11 IB & HSC Information Night – Wednesday 2nd March 

Week 6 B – Year 11 Day of Hope, Year 11 Harbour Cruise – Friday 11 March (TBC – Pending on Covid Restrictions) 

Mr Nicholas Walker
Yr 11 Year Advisor
nwalker@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9909 3133