Year 8

Chapel

Thank you to all Yr 8 students who have been so eagerly providing music at our weekly Chapel services.

Science Week

This week is Science Week at Redlands. Students were involved in a Science focused activity during Tutor Time on Wednesday. Breakfast with a Scientist this year again proved popular with many Yr 8 students attending.

Pastoral Care

This week our Pastoral Care program continued to focus on emotional awareness and self-regulation and ‘the big picture’. Students have learned that negative emotions can vary in intensity from strong to weak. They explored this concept by collectively illustrating a Tutor Group emotional thermometer. Mild annoyance may result in a temperature rating of 1 or 2; whilst extreme rage could result in a temperature rating of 9 or 10. It is when our emotions become extreme that our behaviour often becomes erratic and self‐defeating as when we act aggressively or withdraw. A goal students could set for themselves when faced with negative, adverse events at school or home is to not become extremely upset but rather, using the Emotional Thermometer as a guide, stay within the middle range of emotional upset (temperature rating between 4 and 7). 

Communication

Your enquiries are important. A reminder that general enquiries should be sent to your child’s Tutor who will direct questions accordingly. Sports and academic enquiries should be directed to the appropriate departments. Subject Coordinators are available at the following addresses:

Ms Marita Jansons 
Yr 8 Advisor
mjansons@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9819