From the Principal
On Monday evening, the Edwards Auditorium in the John Roberts Centre reverberated with wonderful music performances from our Secondary School students during the final of the 2019 Instrumental Competition. This year’s competition was won by Yr 8 student Kokoro Sawa who performed exceptionally on the Marimba. We congratulate Kokoro, who was also the Yrs 7-8 winner, and bass guitarist Izaac Nisbet who won the Yrs 9-10 category, and all finalists on their very fine performances.
Congratulations also to 2019 Arts Captain Asha Boswarva who has been nominated for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Best New Female Talent award for her role in Lambs of God. To receive this nomination is such a wonderful achievement, especially for a school student.
Finally, I wish to congratulate Mathematics teacher, Dr Amanda Michels, who has been awarded the prestigious UNSW Teacher Fellowship in Mathematics for 2020. Next year Dr Michels will be tutoring First Year UNSW Mathematics students and will provide insights to UNSW on teaching issues. Upon returning to Redlands in 2021, she will be able to impart her knowledge about UNSW Mathematics teaching practices, enabling us to better prepare students for their tertiary education. Dr Michaels, whose doctorate was granted by Oxford University for work in the field of Particle Physics, is eminently qualified in both Mathematics and Physics. After beginning a career in Finance, she decided that her chosen career should be secondary teaching, much to our delight.
School Security
We take our responsibility to provide a safe school environment seriously. The School requires parents, guardians and carers to observe the School’s security procedures, particularly for the protection of students from direct contact with those outside the School during school hours.
This means that parent or carer visitors to Redlands must sign in (upon arrival) and out (upon departure) of the relevant Reception office on each campus and wear visitor identification whilst on the grounds. Thank you for your cooperation with this important campus safety process and condition of enrolment.
Dr Peter Lennox
Photo caption: Winner of the 2019 Redlands Instrumental Competition and Winner of Division 1, Kokoro Sawa on the Marimba