Year 8
Key Dates
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Yr 8 Yearly Examinations |
Week 4 |
Tuesday 5 November – Friday 8 November |
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SS Carols |
Week 7 |
Friday 29 November |
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Speech Night |
Week 8 |
Wednesday 4 December |
Examinations
Students now have access to their 2019 Examination Timetable via iLearn and Redlands Pulse. In preparation for examinations in Week 4, students will be using Pastoral Care time as an opportunity for personal study. It is important that they schedule this time into their study routines and plan accordingly. Students have been encouraged to speak openly with their teachers about examination content and preparation. Should you have any questions, please contact the relevant teacher or Subject Coordinator directly.
How can you help at home? The Study Skills Handbook (Username: redlands | Password: 68results) provides some top tips for parents:
- Helping Students Develop Effective Study Skills
- How Parents Can Help Their Secondary School Student With Their Learning
- Motivating Your Child
Instrumental Competition
On Monday evening, the annual Redlands Instrumental Competition was held in the Edwards Auditorium, showcasing sophisticated levels of musical expression by all finalists as they explored a wide variety of styles and performance contexts. The repertoire presented in this competition clearly demonstrated that these students are developing highly advanced skills and expressive techniques on their instruments. Overall, the standard was outstanding and a credit to the finalists and their instrumental teachers. Adjudicating the competition this year was Dr Jeanell Carrigan, Associate Professor in the Collaborative Piano Unit at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Sabrina Blasco, Jaida Gwilliam, Koko Sawa and Hadley Wintle represented Yr 8. The overall Winner of the 2019 Redlands Instrumental Competition was Koko Sawa who performed exceptionally on the Marimba.
NCSS Challenge
The NCSS Challenge is a national programming competition organised by the University of Sydney for secondary school students. The challenge runs for five weeks and students compete by solving a range of problems from relatively simple to mind-bendingly hard! Selected students from Yr 8 Technology classes participated. We congratulate Lucy Baird for her High Distinction and Aurora Golowenko and Sophie McGrath for being awarded High Distinction with a perfect score.
Computer Programming
For the past couple of years, Yr 7 students have a chance to learn how to write computer programming code in Python. Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language, which is widely used by leading companies in the IT industry. Yr 8 students used the knowledge they gained in Yr 7 to create digital art by writing computer programming code in Python language. Please click on these links to view art works:
- Student Digital Art Work 1
- Student Digital Art Work 2
- Student Digital Art Work 3
- Student Digital Art work 4
Students who decide to study Information and Software Technology in Yr 10 will get an opportunity to continue to grow their knowledge in Computer Programming. High performing students get a chance to be selected to attend a ten day summer school at Sydney University. The Sydney University Summer School brings together talented young people from all around Australia for an intensive course in Computer Programming. In the last couple of years, students from Redlands have been selected to attend this Summer School.
Yr 8 Pastoral Program Term 4
In Term 4, Yr 8 are exploring Positive Psychology. Positive psychology is not about putting on a happy face all the time. Life can be hard and disappointments and challenges are inevitable. However, scientific research has shown that there are identified strategies and skills that allow people to navigate the challenges of life more effectively and enjoy life despite the upsets. Elements of positive psychology and best explained through the PERMA framework. To promote PERMA, one Tutor Time a week for Term 4 will be dedicated to TimeOut Thursday. During this time, Tutors will facilitate a fun mindfulness activity eg. colouring, origami, reading etc. For those students needing some extra time to move, they are able to join Mr Warrell and me for some outdoor activities or downtime. As spots for outdoor activities are limited, students were asked to sign-up via iLearn by Wednesday.
Ms Marita Jansons
Yr 8 Advisor
mjansons@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9819