Head of Secondary School
Year 12 Farewell
It’s been a significant week for Year 12 as they move through various rites of passage in their culmination of learning and living as Redlands students.
On Tuesday Year 12 were able to have some fun on their Activities Day which involved a Harbour Cruise and some swimming and games at Chinaman’s Beach.
Wednesday marked their final farewell assembly with the student and staff community and Valedictory Dinner and Prize Giving at The Star. It’s been an emotional week for the students (and the adults in their life too!) and we are all very proud of them.
View the Guard of Honour Video Here
Some photos for you to enjoy of the various events below:
Farewell to Term 3
In our Year 12 Farewell Assembly on Wednesday, I wished all students a relaxing and restorative break over the coming holiday period. The student community conducted themselves maturely and respectfully during the entire farewell assembly and joyfully celebrated in wishing Year 12 all the best as they graduate.
All of the staff wish the students in Years 7 to 11 a lovely holiday experience. We thank parents and carers for their support, cooperation and trust this term and anticipate an awesome Term 4, commencing on Monday 14 October.
Year 9 Commerce Intrapreneurship Program Pitch Finals
Redlands welcomed our six partner organisations to the Senior Campus on Tuesday to watch the Year 9 teams pitch their innovative solutions. Across Term 3, students have been working hard to understand their assigned organisation, conducting market research, customer profiling and then applying a human centered design methodology to the challenge before them. They experienced site visits, a round of asynchronous feedback from the organisation, pitching and visual design masterclasses and finally the opportunity to share their team’s solution in front of the organisation.
Although working with a range of businesses, this year’s overarching theme had justice firmly at its core. Justice is about being in respectful and harmonious relationships with one another and the world around us – relationships that create cultural, social, environmental and economic opportunities for and with one another. Innovation and entrepreneurship often feels like it must be new and shiny but of course it is about the ability to look at problems, sometimes age-old problems and seemingly intractable problems in new ways or even solve new problems with existing methods. We are delighted that we were able to offer such a rich range of organisations to our cohort to work with—all of whom are striving for positive impact and challenging the status quo.
All our partners were extremely impressed with the students, each staying for a Celebration of Learning lunch afterwards to informally offer further insights and words of encouragement. We are also proud to continue to support one of our partners from last year, Plate it Forward, who served lunch from Coyoacan Social. Not only did we eat well but one meal for every meal purchased by Redlands will go to an addiction recovery centre in Mexico City.
NSW CIS Athletics Championships at Sydney Olympic Park
Below are the highlights from the event:
- Ari Abe-Apostolou delivered a standout performance in the 12-over para-athlete Shot-Put and Discus, securing 3rd place with a distance of 3.34m in the Shotput and 3rd place in the Discus with a personal best throw of 6.60m.
- The Open Girls 4x100m Relay team, consisting of Lauren Dower, Amynta Field, Jemima Hugman, and Chloe Scamps achieved a swift time of 55.85, finishing 2nd in their heat.
- Landon Mansell ran a second PB in his heat of the 16 boys 400m (56.29) to take the win.
- In the 15 Girls events, Ava Atkinson competed in the High Jump and 200m, finishing 5th in the High Jump with a 1.45m clearance and placing 8th in the 200m.
- In the longer-distance track events, Eddie Callaghan ran in the 12 Boys 800m and completed the race in 2:53.10, earning 11th place. Finn Gurney, running the 14 Boys 800m, crossed the line with a time of 2:19.21, placing 8th. Max Perry achieved a PB in the 17 Boys 1500m, finishing 6th with a time of 4:38. Annabel Hwang also gave her 1500m everything, finishing in 11th place.
- Jett Gwilliam ran a solid race in the 17 Boys 400m, finishing 7th with a PB time of 55.66, while Charles Hargraves placed 8th in the 16 Boys 200m, clocking in at 24.21.
- In field events, Le Shyan Chua placed 4th in the 15 Girls Javelin with an impressive throw of 25.00m, and Hayden McLeod secured 5th place in the 16 Boys High Jump with a 1.80m clearance. Megan Kirkpatrick earned 7th in both the 17 Girls Shot Put and Discus events, while Eva Simpson threw personal bests in the 14 years girls Shotput and Elizabeth Whelan proved her strength also in the Shotput.
- Other notable achievements included Amber Kusano’s strong performance in the 16 Girls 800m and 400m races, placing 7th and 6th respectively. Chloe Scamps also cleared 1.45m in the 16 Girls High Jump to finish 10th, and Niamh McDonald ran a PB of 16.09 in the 13 Girls 90m Hurdles, placing 3rd in her heat. Kirrily Stone also had a strong jump in the High Jump clearing 1.25m to jump 8cm higher than the ISA Carnival.
- Alexia van der Merwe, Lily Musgrave Kresa and Chloe Scamps also had strong jumps in the High Jump, all finishing in the Top 10.
Congratulations to all the athletes who represented Redlands with determination and sportsmanship at the CIS Athletics Championships.
Best of luck to all of the Redlands team competing at this weekend’s NSW All Schools Athletics Championships.
Seeking Festival of Redlands Volunteers
Help at our 140th Birthday Celebration! The Festival of Redlands relies upon our Community to make this special celebration happen. Please consider lending an hour of your time during the Festival, demonstrating your House Spirit and garnering House points for volunteering!
Learning Plus Volunteers
Learning Plus (support) are looking for volunteers with weekday availability and a desire to contribute regularly to the Redlands student community working with Yrs 7-12.
We need calm and confident community members who understand confidentiality. We need writers (scribes) and readers. You need to have legible handwriting and the ability to communicate in English.
Our volunteers find this a rewarding activity and a fantastic way to support students at Redlands.
We need volunteers to start training now!
Contact sprovisions@redlands.nsw.edu.au to express your interest or request more information.
Ms Gemma Van de Peer
Head of Secondary School
gvandepeer@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9811