Head of Secondary School
Leadership
As Mr Webber mentioned in his Note Day article, this week’s Secondary School assembly focused on leadership to prepare students in Yrs 7-12 to vote for student leadership positions this week. As I have previously communicated in Note Day, this year’s student leadership process will be slightly different to previous years as Prefects will not be determined at the end of this term and there will be no staff or student vote for these positions at this time. Instead, all current Yr 11 students have had the opportunity to be considered for a Prefect position over the next year and it has been great to see the large number of current Yr 11 students put their name forward to be considered for this position. All of these students will then have the opportunity to display their leadership through actions over the next year and the final list of Yr 12 Prefects will now be determined towards the end of their final year at School. However, all of the other school wide leadership positions such as School Captains, Arts Captains, Sports Captains, Service Captains, Environment Captains, House Captains and individual Sport and Cocurricular activity captains will be determined this term and students are voting on these positions this week.
In the assembly, two of our current Yr 12 student leaders, Max Durrant and Anna Saunders, shared their reflections on leadership. Max reflected on his experiences as Rowing Captain this year and the importance of displaying leadership in challenging times, such as the sudden cancellation of the end of season Rowing events which the crews had been training for throughout the season. Anna talked about how those students who do the little things, like showing care, compassion and concern for others and their community are often the best leaders amongst us. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Max, Anna and all of our Yr 12 students for the tremendous leadership they have shown in leading the school community during this challenging year.
Sports Update
It was wonderful to see our students throughout the Secondary School return to competitive sporting fixtures last weekend in the truncated winter season. I travelled out to Macquarie University fields to watch some of our Girls Football, Boys Rugby and Boys AFL play. I would like to congratulate our Junior Boys AFL team for their outstanding performance in the inaugural Boys AFL match in the Secondary School. (Our Junior Girls AFL team played their inaugural match the previous weekend which Mr Kindred wrote about in his Note Day article last week.) The boys lost their first match but won their second match against a strong Knox side. But more importantly was the commitment they showed and standard they set as trailblazers for Boys AFL in the Secondary School.
I would ask all parents and students to please strictly adhere to the Covid-19 arrangements at sporting fixtures on the weekend. These arrangements can vary from venue to venue and it is important that we are all following the respective guidelines to ensure the safe return and continuation of sport.
House Athletics
We will be running the Secondary School House Athletics Carnival on Friday 14 August at Sydney Olympic Park. Due to Covid-19 Arrangements, the Carnival will take on a modified format and further information will be sent home to students and families by the Sports Department early next week. Please note that no parents will be permitted to attend the Carnival.
Yr 12 HSC and IB Trial Examinations
Over the next two weeks our Yr 12 students will be sitting their HSC and IB Trial examinations. This year, we are unable to hold these examinations off-site as we have done so in recent years; however, we are pleased to be able to use a floor of the Learning Hub as an examination centre for the Yr 12 students over the next fortnight. We wish our Yr 12 HSC and IB students all the best for these Trial examinations.
Jeans for Genes Day
Mr Sean Corcoran
Head of Secondary School
scorcoran@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9870