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Student Representative Council (SRC)

Our Semester 1 SRC members (a girl and a boy from each Junior School class) began the year by brainstorming positive ways in which to contribute to the Redlands community and our local community. These SRC roles are for a semester and early in February, the students quickly decided to help raise awareness and funds to contribute to the Australian bushfire relief. Students were eager to generate ideas to help Australian Fire and Rescue as well as native Australian animals that had been impacted by the devastating summer bushfires. They had big plans and commendable goals and then COVID-19 disrupted those plans. Though disappointed not to move forward with the activities for bushfire relief, students instead changed course and sought to promote positivity and connectivity amongst the school community. Led by our School Captains, Jacob Cartwright and Leda Subasi, the SRC members refocused their attention to staying positive and promoting unity and resilience amongst the student body. As a culminating project, SRC members had an opportunity to share some parting thoughts with the school community through an uplifting video. 

This week, SRC members were treated to a celebratory lunch and they were thanked for their contributions to the school. Jacob and Leda praised the SRC for their consistency, commitment and positivity throughout Semester 1. 

It’s inspiring to see so many young people committed to making a positive difference. We extend a heartfelt thank you to all the students who participated in Semester 1’s SRC and we look forward to welcoming the ideas of Semester 2’s SRC members.

Cocurricular Clubs on Tuesdays

A reminder that with student-led Conferences next week as well, the only Clubs that will continue in these weeks will be the ones as listed below, where we have external providers:

• Young Investigators Science
• Debating
• Chess (Fridays)

The conferences also do not impact any Performing Arts after-school activities.

Jeans for Genes 

Thank you to all in our community who came together in denim to raise a staggering total donation from Redlands of $3243.05 in last Friday’s Jeans for Genes Day with our Junior School students and staff contributing $1087.05.This collection will help with the research and hopefully find cures for many children with genetic conditions.

Spanish News – EP Regional Language Championships NSW

Congratulations to our Junior School Spanish students who answered approximately 275,000 Spanish language questions during the Education Perfect NSW Language Championships from 28 July to 4 August, a remarkable achievement!

This incredible effort meant that Redlands came 1^st  in NSW for Spanish out of 173 schools and 4^th overall out of 358 schools.

Special congratulations to the following notable achievers:

A further 36 Redlands students received Bronze and Credit certificates and we congratulate every student who participated. The highest score in each grade was awarded a $30 Giftpay voucher from Education Perfect. These recipients were: Henry Hitchens (Yr 3), Ina Guan (Yr 4), Maya Turton (Yr 5) and Christopher Stevens (Yr 6).

Mr Ari Guha
Head of Junior School 
aguha@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9953 6022