Year 7

Welcoming in our New Leaders

Last Friday, the school announced its Senior Student leadership team for the year. While the Yr 11 leaders are, in some ways, a world apart from our Yr 7s, many of them are also tightly linked due to their experiences supporting the cohort through the Peer Support program in the first half of the year. Thus, it was great to see many of our Yr 7s come out to Liggins Quad at lunch to watch (and celebrate) the announcement of our new school leaders. Perhaps some of them were thinking that one day it might be their names being called out to lead Redlands into the future.

A Final Student Leaders Assembly

On Monday, we enjoyed a final Student Leaders’ assembly for Yrs 7-9, where the focus was presenting a recap of the year and celebrating of student achievement. A variety of Fall Forward awards were presented to students for their efforts and involvement this year, including a McDouall award to Grace, an Arts award to Leo and Josh, and a Service award to Oscar and Harriet. Congratulations to them all! There was even a brief section where some staff were recognised with Fall Forward awards, including one to this very chuffed Year Advisor.

Our Student Leaders have been wonderful figures of compassion, care and enthusiasm this year, really modelling the Redlands spirit to our Yr 7s. We wish them all the best for their future endeavours and look forward to seeing our new Student Leaders take the reins to lead Redlands into the future of 2024!

Juggling with McDouall Blue

After a successful first juggling session with Dumolo Blue last week, this week McDouall Green decided to give it a shot, and used their ‘Fun Friday’ Tutor time to learn how to juggle. There was certainly a mixture of success but, again, everyone had fun giving it a go. A big congratulations to Johnny who picked up the skill very quickly and was pretty close to comfortably juggling by the end!

I Sprint Athletically – ISA Carnival

On Tuesday, a collection of Redlands students attended the 2023 ISA Carnival. A large contingent of Yr 7 students were involved in the carnival, with some of them achieving some impressive results. Congratulations to all those who attended, including: Lachlan, Angus, Archie, Gabriella, Tristan, Lucas, Nic, Matilda, Suri, Harvey, Laura, Audrey, Liv, Dean, Buddy, Jacob, Oliwia, Phoebe, Alex, Elisabella and Eddie. Particular congratulations to the following students who achieved top three placings in their events!

  • Oliwia Polok – 2nd place Div 1 Shotput 12 years 5.50m
  • Nic Gorman – 3rd place 12 years boys Discus – 15.03m
  • Olivia Law – 1st place 13 Years girls 800m 2:21s, 1st place 12 – 14 years 1500m 5:02.46s
  • Gabriella Demian – 1st place 12 years Javelin – 9.48m;  3rd place 12 years Discus – 12.90m
  • Audrey Kwok – 2nd place 12 years Div B 100m 15.73s
  • Jacob Polo 2nd place 12 years boys 100m – 14.24s 
  • Phoebe Sun 3rd place – 12 years long jump 3.26m
  • Tristan Fournier Le Ray – 3rd place 13 years boys 400m 1:01s

House Debating Finals – McDouall and Roseby

They say that for good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument and debate. We have certainly been treated to some excellent, thoughtful debating over the past couple of weeks in the Yr 7 House Debating competition. On Wednesday, we had the finals of the competition, with Roseby affirming the proposition that hunting in Australia should be banned except for those living in indigenous communities, against McDouall negating it.

We were able to gather the entire Yr 7 cohort together to watch the debate in the Learning Hub, and students were focused and supportive of their peers debating. In the end, the adjudicators awarded the victory to McDouall. Congratulations to the team for their success over the competition!

House Spirit Fair

Today, the School’s House Captains and a variety of other supporting students and staff coordinated an array of fun and spirit filled events for the annual House Spirit Fair. It was a wonderful moment, offering a time for students to relax, have a bit of fun and enjoy being themselves. Whether they were eating a sausage sizzle, playing dodgeball or relaxing with a zuper-duper, it looked like Yr 7 students had a really great time; and,all the money raised from the fair is going to a great cause, raising funds for the Yr 12 legacy gift.

UN Voice Competition

In Term 4, Redlands students have the opportunity to participate in the upcoming UN Youth Voice, which is an annual public speaking competition for students in Yrs 7-10. Voice provides delegates with the opportunity to present innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.

For more information about the competition, please visit this Pulse page.

Mr Jimmy Tod-Hill
Year 7 Advisor
jtodhill@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9908 6462