Year 11

Uniform and Personal Grooming

Please could I ask for your support on this issue. Please remind your sons that it is an expectation that students are clean shaven for school. Girls should not be wearing necklaces and if they choose to wear earrings, they should be simple studs in single pierced ears.

Student Achievements

Olivia Wintle has been selected to represent Australia at the FIAC Flanders International Acrobatic Cup in Belgium. This competition is due to take place in April. The training commitment per week for this high-level commitment can be in excess of 20 hours for Olivia. We wish her every success as she represents Australia on the global stage.

Olivia Donoghue has been selected for the Open State Swim Championships this weekend. Olivia is hoping to qualify for the Nationals and we are incredibly proud of the marvellous progress she has made with her swimming.

Sofia Stuckmann has been selected to play Beach Volleyball at the Australian Junior Beach Volleyball Championships (AJBVC) at Coolangatta. Australia’s emerging girls and boys Beach Volleyball players represent their state and compete for an opportunity to be crowned the Australian Junior Beach Champions. States/Territories also compete for the Andy Burdin Shield which is awarded to the best performing State/Territory during the event. We wish her all the best at the championships.

Study Skills Tip For March – Top Tips for Memorising Notes

Many students find it really difficult to cope with the memorisation that can be needed for examinations. Of course, you can’t just rote learn and regurgitate, you need to be able to apply the skills of what you have learnt. However, there is also a certain amount of memorisation of content, formulas and definitions that are necessary. So how can students make this process easier?

  1. Make your notes as brain-friendly as possible, point form, tables, diagrams and avoid big, long sentences or paragraphs.
  2. Start the memorisation process of your notes early and don’t wait until just before the test or examination.
  3. Memorisation involves testing yourself over and over and over and over. So read a section, then see what you can say or write down without looking. Then go back and see what you got wrong or didn’t know.  Put a pencil mark next to these points.
  4. Now focus on the points you didn’t know. Say them out loud, repeat them to yourself, write them down a few times. 
  5. Then test yourself on those points again and see if you remembered more this time. 
  6. Do this over and over and over again. Then do it one more time again. 
  7. Make flashcards or use a flashcard App on your phone to create flashcards on the parts you find hard to remember. Review these every day before the test.
  8. Make a list of the key concepts you find hard to learn and each night read through them just before you go to sleep and first thing when you wake up as these are powerful memory times.
  9. Engage in lots of practice questions and do this without looking at your notes or the answers to see if you can a) remember and b) apply the information. Review the areas that you did not remember again. 
  10. Your job is to keep testing yourself in order to find out which points have not stuck in your memory yet, so you can review these until they do.

Ms Sarah Matthews
Yr 11 Advisor
smatthews@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9908 6494