Head of Preparatory School

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Welcome to Term 2

So lovely to see all our returning students yesterday and exciting to welcome new faces and families to our Redlands family. Term 2 will, as always, be filled with engaging, challenging and differentiated learning experiences. If you would like to know more about what your child will be learning, investigating, and exploring in classes, I encourage you to read the relevant curriculum handbook found on Pulse and read the Welcome to Term 2 grade letters.

This term the school values of respect and responsibility will be a focus in our Prep community. It is all too easy to just say those words and to have children recite them when discussing school values, it is another to teach, model and live these values daily in and outside of the classroom. To help our students understand and live the values of respect and responsibility, we will be encouraging, highlighting, and modelling good manners, respectful conversations, and friendships. At Redlands we are proud of our connection with the community, so I ask for your partnership in guiding our children to live and understand these values and to extend this learning at home.

A big thank you to parents and carers who volunteered their time last term in classes. Your help has been so appreciated by the staff and by our children who love spending time with you. If you would like to volunteer even 30 minutes once a week, please contact your class teacher directly to organise a time that works for you.

Please find the key events for Term 2 below. As always, we will notify you if there are changes to these dates.

Lest We Forget

The Prep School gathered yesterday to remember those men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. As you can appreciate, with our youngest of learners we must be mindful of how we discuss wars.

Yesterday we talked about what ANZAC Day means by reflecting upon how lucky we are to live in such a wonderful country. We also discussed how we appreciate all those soldiers in the past who have helped make it such a wonderful country to live in for us.

Our students made the connection of understanding to ANZAC Day by discussing the symbols of poppies, Anzac biscuits and laying of wreaths It was a lovely inclusive assembly and I was very proud of how respectful our students were in discussing events of the past.

Congratulations OOSH

Last term our K-6 OOSH service was evaluated by ACECQA ((Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority). After a rigorous two-day schedule of observations, discussions with staff and programming review, Redlands OOSH received outstanding ratings and feedback in all 7 Quality Areas.

A huge amount of preparation and documentation went into preparing for this evaluation and we thank Miss Ana and the OOSH team for all their dedication to the OOSH program.

Term 2 Wellbeing Lunchtime Clubs

Ms Fiebiger has put together another term of fun and interesting lunchtime activities for our Prep students to access, which are open to all Prep students throughout the week. Some of our activities are capped at 20 due to accessibility of resources and others can accommodate up to 30 children. Can I please encourage you to talk to your child about what they might like to try throughout the term.

Mrs Ainslie Breckenridge
Head of Preparatory School
abreckenridge@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9848