Head of Secondary School

As we travel through the penultimate week of Term 3, the Secondary Students continue to amaze us with their talents and skills. Our Yr 12 students have commenced their final week of school! Yr 11 students are receiving back their recent examinations and analysing feedback in order to set future goals and make decisions about Yr 12 study. They are also readying themselves for Leadership announcements and Camp in the first week of Term 4. Yr 10 and Yr 9 have also been submitting their final assessments before the examination blocks and Camps in Term 4. Yr 7 and 8 are flying through the end of this term, submitting final assessment tasks and receiving feedback for learning experiences submitted earlier in the term. This week, I had some fun with Yr 8 who spent some time in their English lesson self-assessing their multimodal task using a marking criteria, before the results were released on iLearn. Next term our Stage 4 students will be sitting a slightly modified examination schedule with the aim of supporting them to develop study and revision skills leading up to, and during, an examination period. We know this can often be a daunting prospect for Yr 7 and 8, and our Dean of Students, Ms Anna Rolon, has been working collaboratively with Yr Advisors, Ms Sarah Matthews and Ms Lucienne Willis, in order to schedule a block of exams with build-in study periods and learning time.

There seem to be a lot of amateur student filmographers on campus at the moment. Our Yr 12 students have been compiling memories to share in their final days of school, and our Yr 10 students have had fun making a short positive film for their cohort.

Ms Ynson and Ms Boase challenged Yr 10 to step up and express what they believed the Yr 10 cohort need to hear and experience at this time in the term. A few students chose to create a video to provide inspiration and focus for Yr 10 as they prepare to enter the senior years of school. We’d love to share it with you here.

HSC Student Achievements – Nominations for Practical Performances

Last week NESA shared with us that some of our Dance and Drama students received HSC performance nominations for their recent practical exams. This is a wonderful achievement. Congratulations to our students who are listed below and to their teachers Ms Ashleigh Moore and Ms Alyssha Clarke.

Kyle Banfield – Individual (Drama)

Jemima Flavell – Individual (Drama)

Kyle Banfield, Jemima Flavell, Harry Knight and Oliver Rose – Group (Drama)

Siena Adderton – Individual (Dance)

Harry Knight – Individual (Dance)

ISA Athletics Carnival

On Tuesday the 2022 ISA Athletics Carnival was held at Sydney Olympic Park. Redlands placed 2^nd in the Division 1 Junior and Senior Girls and then 3^rd overall for the Girls.

There were many 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners across the School. There were also awards given to students after the ISA Carnival for the Most Improved Junior, Intermediate and Senior Athlete, as well as Junior, Intermediate and Senior Athletes of the Year Awards. Recipients are listed below:

Most Improved:

Junior: Mila McKim and combined Max Taylor and Hugo Barton

Intermediate: Cameron Simpson and Annabel Hwang

Senior: Madeleine D’Almeida and Tom Taylor

Athlete of the Year:

Junior: Amber Kusano and Daniel Benoliel

Intermediate: Isaac Brooks and Eva Osborne

Senior: Sam Chubb and Madison Barwise

Australian School Band and Orchestra Festival

Over the weekend we had some wonderful successes in Music at the Australian School Band and Orchestra Festival, held at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Both ensembles competed in strong fields, with our Combined (intermediate and Advanced) String awarded Silver for their section, our Advanced Concert Band awarded Gold.

This is an outstanding achievement! The students have been working very hard in the past weeks and these prestigious wins are a testament to their diligence.

Redlands Advanced Concert Band at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Captain of Bands 2022, Eden Borrie & Captain of Small Ensembles 2022, Izaac Nisbet with Mr Mathew Owen.

Australian Interschools Snowsports Championships

Please find below a summary of the outstanding results of Redlands students.

Redlands Secondary Co-Ed School Overall Runners-up (to Snowy Mountains Grammar)
Snowboard GS Division 1 Female National Champions (Callie Forest, Mia Kloiser-Jones, Sienna Wessels)
Billy Thomas achieved 2^nd Place Ski Slopestyle
Sienna Wessels achieved 3^rd Snowboard GS

Team Top 5:

Alpine Division 1 Female 3^rd (Momo Elsworth 6^th, Sienna Wessels 11^th, Julia Murphy, Brontë Backhouse)
Alpine Division 1 Male 4^th (Billy Thomas 12^th, Nicholas Fitzhenry, Ethan McFarlane, William Byron)
Moguls Division 1 Female 5^th (Julia Murphy 11^th, Sienna Wessels, Momo Elsworth)
Moguls Division 3 Female 3^rd (Avie Keller 6^th, Eva Fitzhenry, Arkie Riches)
Male Division 1 Skier Cross 5^th (Billy Thomas 13^th, Harrison Fung, Nicholas Fitzhenry)
Snowboard GS Division 1 Female 1^st (Sienna Wessels 3^rd, Callie Forest 4^th, Mia Kloiser-Jones 12^th)
Snowboard Cross Division 1 Female 2^nd (Sienna Wessels 4^th, Callie Forest 11^th)

Individual Top 10:

Alpine: Momo Elsworth 6^th
Moguls: Harrison Fung 8^th
Ski Slopestyle: Billy Thomas 2^nd
Snowboard GS: Sienna Wessels 3^rd, Callie Forest 4^th
Moguls: Avie Keller 6^th

Ms Gemma Van de Peer
Head of Secondary School
gvandepeer@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9811