Year 9

Key Dates

Communication with Teachers

As students move into their final stages of school, your child will start developing more independence. These changes will start affecting the way parents communicate and connect with the School. Students should be taking more responsibility for communicating with their teachers (eg when away from lessons, have questions about subject content etc.)

Parents can still have a relationship with the School that fits around their child’s changing social needs. One of the best ways to continue helping your child is to create a supportive environment for education at home – an environment that values education. This might involve simply talking about schoolwork together, discussing your child’s career plans and ambitions, or talking through the links between your child’s schoolwork and their future goals.

Permission Needed – Let’s Mark This Moment in History

Last week, Yr 9 participated in Australia Post’s Dear Australia initiative. For letters to be posted, parent permission needs to be granted via Engage, by the end of term. We thank you for your support of this activity.

Parents on Campus

In an effort to limit the amount of people coming onto the School campus during the day, we are asking parents to not drop items off in the Secondary School Office or any office on the school grounds. Yr 9 students should be responsible for their own items and we can usually assist with any issues if students communicate with their Tutor or Year Advisors. 

Lunch Orders – Canteen

Please remind your children that if they have any issues with lunch orders or cannot locate their lunch order to please speak with the Canteen Manager, Mr Joel Squire, or another Canteen staff member who will be able to address the issue. 

Social Distancing

We would appreciate it if parents are able to have continued conversations with their children regarding community expectations with social distancing. It is very easy for us all to feel that life has returned to normal due to having returned to school and being able to see and chat to friends and teachers. However, the general public are more alert to the need for social distancing and students have been seen clustering together outside of the school grounds and making it difficult for members of the public to enter retail premises or pass by in the street while maintaining the recommended distance.

Pastoral Care

This week in Pastoral Care, Yr 9  has explored the feelings one experiences when situations crop up that are out of our control. So far, 2020 has been a year of challenges from bushfires to pandemics, changing political landscapes to civil unrest. Students are all experiencing these challenges in different ways and it is understandable that all of us could be feeling unsettled about the present and unsure about the future. Through activities, students explored how negative emotions can manifest themselves and how they can relate these emotions to different circumstances. Students then tried to establish ways they can exert control of some of these situations to improve their overall outlook.

Ms Marita Jansons 
Yr 9 Advisor
mjansons@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9819