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Reminder – Cutlery Library Donations

If you, or anybody you know, have any spare spoons or forks, please donate it to our Junior Campus cutlery library. A container is located outside the canteen for any donations.

Whilst the bamboo cutlery currently being used is biodegradable, it is still single use. A cutlery library would allow the canteen staff to reuse the spoons and forks, further reducing our carbon footprint at Redlands.

OSH Information Zoom Session

For those families who access our K-6 OSH, or would like to access the program, please join Ana Nogueira this afternoon at 5pm via Zoom. The session will focus on what is in store for Redlands OSH and it will give families an opportunity to ask Ana any questions regarding K-6 OSH. Please use this link to access the session.

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April Vacation Care: 11-22 April 8am-6pm

If you would like your child to attend the April Vacation Care program, please visit the OSH page on Pulse to preview all information pertaining to the holiday activity schedule and daily requirements. The Flexischools website www.flexischools.com.au is now open to make any bookings. Please use the Prep and Junior Vacation Care icon for children in K-6. Feel free to contact the Coordinator, Ana Nogueira with any Vacation Care queries.

Redlands International Day

Tuesday 5 April

International Day is the day when we celebrate Redlands’ diverse international community and highlight the cultures within our school community. Did you know that we have students from over 52 countries on the Junior Campus!

Let’s celebrate this by wearing something that reflects these cultural connections.

Redlands UNICEF Fundraiser – Ukraine Emergency Appeal

Joining on from the fundraising that has started in the Secondary School to support the UNICEF Ukraine Emergency Appeal, Preparatory School students and families are encouraged to consider supporting this cause which I know has personally impacted some of our community considerably.

In particular, I was deeply moved to hear from one Redlands family who have relatives who normally live in Ukraine but are now in various countries across Europe with many who don’t speak English. The family have been trying to assist from Sydney during the night to help them try to find accommodation and deal with visa information as best possible, but the tyranny of distance is very hard.

As a school, we have set a goal of reaching $20,000 by the end of this term and we currently sit at a staggering total of over $9,000 in a few days.

Connected to this, some of our student leaders have organised the sale of slushies next Thursday 7 April for a cost of $2 with all proceeds going to this cause.

Morning Drop Off Times

Just a reminder for our families that Prep drop off is from 8am-8.20am. If you do arrive earlier, please wait with your child outside Prep reception until the door opens. Please do not leave any child waiting alone on Allister Street.

COVID-19 Update

We received notification from AISNSW  this week that the isolation requirements have altered slightly for students who are household contacts, as highlighted below.

A household contact of a COVID positive person must isolate for 7 days. Following that time period, they are not obligated to self-isolate for the next 14 days, even if another household contact becomes COVID positive. This means a household contact does not need to self-isolate as a contact more than once in a 21-day period unless the person is diagnosed with COVID-19. In this case they will need to self-isolate again for 7 days as a confirmed case. 

If a household contact is notified of a new case within their household after 14 days since they completed their self-isolation, they will need to isolate again for 7 days unless they have previously tested positive, and it has been no more than 12 weeks since they ceased self-isolating as a positive case. 

2023 Term Dates

In order to assist families with their future planning, the 2023 Term Dates are listed here, on our Website, Redlands Pulse and the Redlands App:

The dates above are for the whole school. Please note the following:

Term 1 2023: All Kindergarten students commence on Monday 30 January however Years 1 and 2 2023 commence on Tuesday 31 January.

Term 4 2023: The final day of school for the Preparatory School is Tuesday 5 December.

Mrs Ainslie Breckenridge
Head of Preparatory School
abreckenridge@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9848