Head of Secondary School
A Peek Inside the Classroom… Dance
This term I have asked teachers to invite me to their lessons to witness some of the “wow” moments that occur in their classrooms. So, over the next few months, I will be visiting classes in each subject area and will be giving little “peeks inside the classroom” in my Note Day pieces. This week I am starting with Dance.
Last Friday I had the great pleasure of observing a Yr 11 HSC Dance class in Parkes Hall. The students initially shared with me their thinking and planning behind their upcoming major works, illustrating not only their creativity but also their thoughtfulness as they were linking various stimuli and thematic concerns to their physical movements. They then got to “test” these movements with the Prep School’s Transition class. It was wonderful to see some of our older students engaging with some of our younger students in a creative and caring way. They then finished the lesson by incorporating some of the movements they learned from the Transition students in short, impromptu solo performances. I am sure some of our Transition students have a new passion for Dance after this wonderful lesson. Thank you Ms Walker and Yr 11 HSC Dance students for this peek inside your classroom.
Careers Week
We have been celebrating our inaugural Careers Week this week at Redlands with a variety of activities and events aimed at getting students to think about post-school possibilities aligning with our vision of further developing their “life-readiness”. The week kicked off with an Assembly on Monday where our Careers Advisor, Ms Salier, spoke to the students about the importance of thinking of life after school as well as a talk from our Artist in Residence, Cameron Robbins. Cameron spoke to the students about the importance of making mistakes and learning from them in life, as well as the value of having a place to write down and store all of the ideas they might come up with. (He showed us his sketch books!) On Monday evening we were honoured to have Professor Tim Flannery speak to parents and students about future career opportunities as we are moving to a clean economy. He inspired us with his messages of hope and possibility in what can often be a doom and gloom topic. At lunchtime on Wednesday, Cameron Robbins spoke to students about future careers in the Arts and today at lunchtime we have 18 Redlanders returning to the School to share their insights with our current students in a Careers “Speed Networking” session. I would like to thank Ms Salier for all of her efforts in organising this week’s events.
Ramadan Multi-Faith Iftar
Last Friday evening Christian Studies Subject Coordinator, Mr James Clanfield, and two of our Yr 12 HSC Studies of Religions students had the opportunity to visit Unity Grammar School in Austral to attend a Ramadan Mult-Faith Iftar (Dinner). The purpose of the evening was for students to connect with other students from another faith (Islam) and learn more about their culture, worldview and expression of faith. They were able to witness their prayer, feast with them (after their fast from sun-up to sun-down), hear from speakers and engage in further dialogue with each other. We thank Unity Grammar for extending this invitation to us.
Redlands Konica Minolta Artist in Residence 2019: Cameron Robbins
It has been wonderful having our Artist in Residence, Cameron Robbins, onsite over the past two weeks working with our students. His artwork has been taking shape and it was exciting to see it installed outside of the John Roberts Centre earlier in the week. We look forward to hearing him speak tonight at the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize Collection event this evening. I want to thank Mark Harpley, Kate Williams and our Foundation team for their efforts in developing this program over the past fortnight.
Mr Sean Corcoran
Head of Secondary School
scorcoran@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9870