Head of Preparatory School
Olympians Come to Visit!
A Message from Ms Longworth
This week the prep assembly transformed into our very own Olympic Media Centre, Year 1 students Willow Bamber, Andrew Wu, Isabel Hogue, Jemima Joyce, Mackenzie Lloyd, Isabelle Bateman, Bodhi Sepulohniam, Oliver Haswell, interviewed Olympians Karyn Gojnich and James Talbot.
Karyn has represented Australia at 3 Olympics Games for Sailing. James competed in the Paralympics for rowing. The athletes inspired us with stories of their Olympic journey, describing their training schedules, most memorable moments from the Olympics, how to persevere through setbacks, life lessons they have learned through sport, their role models, as well as interesting stories about the athletes village and competing at the ultimate level. Karyn and James were extremely generous and brought in very special items from their Olympic games including official Australian uniforms from the opening ceremonies, zoot suits, Akubra’s, jackets and hats.
Students were able to high five real Olympians and the delight when they were able to see a real Olympic medal was remarkable. Year 12 student, Daisy Thomas, represented Australia at the Youth Olympics this year for Freestyle skiing, winning a Silver Medal which she graciously shared with the Prep School. What a phenomenal achievement.
On behalf of all the staff and students, we would like to thank Ms Longworth for all her hard work and enthusiasm in making the Redlands prep Olympics experience such a memorable and fun experience for everyone.
Jeans for Genes Day
A big thank you to all families for supporting Jeans for Genes Day last Friday. As always, the generosity of families is so very much appreciated.
The combined donations of Redlands House, Prep and Junior Schools came to $1 216.35. The overall P-12 donations amounted to $9,240.25.
Save the Date – 2024 Book Week
Book Week is nearly here, and we are excited about the 2024 theme, Reading is Magic.
The purpose of Book Week is to foster a love of reading in children and to celebrate children’s literature. For that reason, we will celebrate in the Preparatory School by looking at two Australian picture books, The Concrete Garden by Bob Graham and an oldie, but goodie, The Magic Hat by Mem Fox.
There will be many activities happening in prep that week with the highlight being the Prep School Magic Hat Day on Tuesday 20th August.
Your child can come to school wearing a magic hat! They may wear just a hat, or the hat may be part of a whole outfit. Please talk to your child about who wears hats. It might be a book character. For example, a wizard or a goblin, but it might also be part of a person’s work clothes outfit. For example, a chef, fireman, magician, cowboy etc. Talk about the magic that their hat might possess. What can it do?
At our prep assembly on this day, children will showcase their hats and talk about their magical properties, or they could even talk about what their hat symbolises or what its’ purpose is.
Book Week is also a good reminder to parents, that no child is too old to be read to. Talk to your children about what they like reading, what you like reading and what you could read together, then come to the library and borrow a serial for Book Week or a book for each night before bed.
The Reading Is Magic theme for 2024 brings with it an air of wonderment, highlighting fantastical stories, spellbinding narratives, and the wizardry of words that can whisk us away from our daily realities to worlds unknown.
Please drop in to the Lucy Hill Library if you would like more information or to have a chat with Mrs Roberts about the events of the week. It is sure to be a lot of fun.
Lunchtime Sharing
At Redlands we are always encouraging, modelling and ensuring our students are eating healthy food for recess and lunch. Sadly, we are finding a growing number of students (especially in Year 2) bringing junk food in lunch boxes to ‘trade’ with other students. This is really disappointing for us to see. I am asking our families to please stop sending ‘treats and unhealthy food options to school. Any junk food found will be taken off students and returned home in school bags.
Giving Day
On Wednesday 21 August we are excited to launch our major philanthropic campaign, Giving Day. Our Giving Day campaign supports the High Country Campus expansion and establishes another important means-tested scholarship in honour of Redlander Coralie Amos OAM.
Giving Day promises to be a fantastic day of celebration that will have a transformational impact for our students. I look forward to the Redlands community coming together on the day where we’ll have 24 hours to reach our giving target of $400,000. Thanks to the incredible support of our matching gift donors, every donation on this day will be tripled, increasing the impact of everyone’s contributions significantly.
For more information about our Giving Day and how you can get involved, please visit the Foundation section or our website.
Father’s Day Celebration
We are excited to invite you to join us in celebrating Father’s Day on Monday 2 September from 7.45 am at the Junior Campus Piazza. Please note that bookings will close on Wednesday 28 August, reservations are necessary for catering purposes.
In the event of rain, the celebration will continue as planned, with arrangements made to accommodate refreshments undercover.
Mrs Ainslie Breckenridge
Head of Preparatory School
abreckenridge@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9848