Redlands House/Transition Gold
Mother’s Day Activities and Morning Tea
Redlands House will be holding a Mother’s Day Celebration on Friday 10 May, beginning at 9.30am with classroom activities, followed by a shared morning tea outside in the playground. You are invited to bring some morning tea to share with your child, along with a picnic rug or chair for your comfort. We look forward to welcoming you as we celebrate this special day. As communicated by Transition Gold teachers, TG class will be following the Preparatory morning, having activities in the classroom from 8.20am.
Seniors and Transition Gold Excursion
In the coming weeks, all Seniors and Transition Gold Children will visit the Eco House and Garden at the Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre at Terry Hills. The Kimbriki Eco House and Garden is a unique education centre dedicated to exploring how to live in a more sustainable way – a place for children to experience, learn and be inspired. This experience will educate students and staff in ways to live more sustainably, and empower our children to construct knowledge, explore values and develop an appreciation of the environment and its relationship to their world. Excursions such as these, lay the foundations for an environmentally responsible adulthood.
Blue Class Seniors and Orange Class Seniors – Wednesday 15 May
Yellow Class Seniors and Transition Gold – Wednesday 22 May
Eye Screening
The STEPS Eye Screening Program will be visiting Redlands House next week and will be testing children who have turned four years old this year. This is a government service that screens all children who will attend school next year. Please ensure that your form is signed as soon as possible so that your child does not miss out on this important free screening opportunity.
Waste Free Wednesday
From the beginning of this year, the Senior class children at Redlands House have been undertaking Environmental Education with Mrs Haverhals and Ms Kennedy. In these lessons, the children have been learning about worms, composting, recycling and the impact single-use plastic has on our environment, especially our oceans. They have been introduced to Take Three for The Sea, which encourages them to make a difference to our oceans by taking three pieces of rubbish with them when they leave the beach (under adult supervision). As a community, we are all trying very hard to do our share of sustainable practices. We invite you to join us in our war on waste by sending your child in every Wednesday with a package free, healthy lunch. Together, we can educate our future generations in sustainable living and practices.
Mother’s Day Classic
Interested Redlands families are encouraged to register for the Redlands team on the Mother’s Day Classic website, to participate in the Mother’s Day Classic this Sunday 12 May. This is a wonderful family-oriented event with categories for serious runners through to fun runners of all ages. All proceeds from this event are donated to Breast Cancer Research.
Don’t forget to purchase your Redlands pink caps and a new pink Team Redlands tshirt from the Uniform Shop, with all profits going to the Mother’s Day Classic charity.
To register for the Redlands team, click here. Please note that you will need to complete the registration process nearly all the way to the payment stage before you can select to join the Redlands team and the password is ‘Shine’.
Thank you to the Redlands Parents and Friends Association who will again have a tent at the event as a meeting point.
Mrs Audrey Fellowes
Head of Early Childhood
afellowes@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9848