Head of Secondary School
Greenlands Week Mufti Day: Friday 6 September
As part of our celebration of Greenlands Week in Week 7, the Secondary School will be holding a mufti day on Friday 6 September. With a gold coin donation, students may wear green or animal themed attire on the day. All proceeds will go to the Giraffe Conservation Program at Taronga Zoo.
Greenlands Week: 2040 Screening
In Week 7, the Secondary School will be celebrating Greenlands Week, where we will be focusing on the many and varied issues facing our environment and some of the strategies we can enact to make a difference. There will be a number of activities here at school led by our Environment Captains, Alice MacDonald and Ben Piro, and their Green Team of students. This year, we are also hosting a special screening of the film, 2040. The film explores what the world could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet. Students and families across both campuses of the school are invited to this special community screening on Thursday 5 September at 6.00pm at the Orpheum Theatre. You can book your tickets here or buy tickets at the door and all proceeds will go towards environmental initiatives at Redlands.
Winter Sports Update
Our Winter Sports season came to a close with some exciting fixtures this past weekend; we congratulate the 2nds and 3rds Girls Hockey teams, as well as Girls 1st XI Football team, for winning their respective Grand Finals on Saturday. There was a great atmosphere at the Girls Football Final out at Blacktown with a number of staff, students and parents in attendance supporting the team in their match against Barker. It was a tense affair with the game tied 0-0 after regulation and overtime. In the ensuing penalty shootout, it took until the 7th penalty kick for Redlands to finally win the match in thrilling fashion. This was the first time Redlands won the Girls Football 1st XI Premiership, and we also won the overall Girls Football Shield as the best performing Girls Football program in the ISA across all age groups. Congratulations to all winter sports participants on an excellent season.
Yrs 3 – 12 HSC Visual Arts Exhibition
Last night I was honoured to open the Yrs 3 – 12 HSC Visual Arts Exhibition. (The Yr 12 IB Visual Arts Exhibition will be held in Week 9.) It was wonderful to see the wide array of artistic works from Junior School students all the way through to Yr 12 HSC students’ major works. As I have said numerous times over the past three years (and once again last night), I am very proud to be part of a school that truly celebrates the arts like Redlands does. Last night once again illustrated that students have a safe place to express themselves through the arts at Redlands where they can both share a bit of themselves and also their views of the world around them in moving, inspiring and sometimes challenging ways.
Yr 12 Music Showcase
On Monday evening I attended the Yr 12 HSC and IB Music Showcase where our talented musicians had one final opportunity to perform their Major Works to an external audience. While I was once again impressed by the wide range and outstanding quality of their performances, I was also excited to see that even at this final stage of their respective HSC or IB journeys, the students’ joy of music-making was still shining through for all to see and hear. I look forward to hearing many of these pieces again at some of the final Yr 12 events in the weeks ahead.
Yr 7 Inter-House Debating
Last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we held our inaugural Yr 7 Inter-House Debating Competition. It was wonderful to see teams of Yr 7 debaters, coached and assisted by our senior debaters, representing our four Houses in debates through the week. I would like to congratulate Cowper and Dumolo for progressing to the final on Friday with Dumolo taking out the shield in a high quality debate, adjudicated by one of our Redlands Debating alumni, Maddie Lawrence (2016). The Yr 7 Inter-House Debating Competition was another illustration of the strong development of Debating at the School over the past few years with not only a number of excellent results, but more importantly, an increase in student numbers and greater Debating opportunities across the program. I would like to thank Ms Simone Bryant for all of her efforts leading the Debating program at Redlands.
Mr Sean Corcoran
Head of Secondary School
scorcoran@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9870