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Year 5 Interschool STEM Challenge Day 

At the very end of last term, STEM fever was high as an excited team of Yr 5 Redlands students attended an Interschool STEM Team Challenge Day at Loreto Kirribilli, with our eLearning Coordinator Ms Anagnostu. Our students worked in mixed school teams with students from Loreto and St Aloysius under tight time deadlines to create, test and present solutions to STEM-related challenges with Drones and Spheros. With a short time to meet their team mates, build rapport and work out a strategy, students utilised computational and design thinking, creative problem solving and most importantly drew on their communication and collaboration skill sets. Students completed a Drone flying and coding challenge, as well as designing and building a Sphero maze game challenge with Kinazium. Congratulations to our team of Yolanda Bai, Owen Beck, Tara Clarke, Elsa Griffiths, Jenna Forrest, Sasha Gordon, Henry Hughes, Feargal Lambert, Ekam Sethi, Daisy Nassar and Bear Whitelaw, who proudly represented Redlands.  

Important Campus Access Notice: Murdoch Street Gate

With a safety lens around the Murdoch Street access to the Junior Campus, the usage of the Murdoch Street pedestrian gate has been recently reviewed with the aim of ensuring greater student safety and campus security.

In response to this review, the following changes to usage of the Murdoch Street pedestrian gate are being trialled for the remainder of Term 4 from today:

A gate closer has been installed to ensure that the gate cannot be accidentally left open during the day and there is a sign in place advising our community that when the gate is closed, access to the Junior Campus is via the Junior School or Prep Receptions on Allister Street. A reminder too that all visitors must sign in at Junior or Prep Receptions when entering the campus for an extended period of time (not for drop off or collection).

Surf Education

Next week sees the commencement of our annual Surf Education program for all students in Yrs 3-6, again utilising the expertise of Surf Life Saving School Australia and their qualified team of SLSSA instructors. The two-session program for each year group at Freshwater Beach will focus on fitness, beach games, surfboard skills, surf safety, ocean conditions, rips, tides, currents and the overall education on the dangers of swimming and surfing in the ocean. The older students will also be instructed in basic board and swimming rescue.

A reminder below of the dates and further detailed information was sent last term and permission requested. The letter is also on Pulse for reference.

 Yr 3

Monday 24 October
Monday 31 October

Yr 4

Tuesday 25 October
Tuesday 1 November

Yr 5

Thursday 27 October
Friday 4 November

Yr 6

Friday 28 October
Thursday 3 November

Each session runs from 11.00am – 2.40pm at Freshwater Beach and I extend my gratitude to Ms Robinson from our PDHPE department who has coordinated the program for the students.

Yr 7 2024 Scholarships

We would like to advise that applications for our Yr 7 2024 Scholarships Program (Academic, Merit, Music, Ballet) are now open to both current Redlands Yr 5 students and those at external schools.

Thanks to the very generous donations from parents, alumni and friends within the Redlands community, we are also offering the Dr Sue Morey AM Means-tested Scholarship for Yr 7 2024.

For more details of our 2024 Scholarships program or to apply, please visit: 

2024 Scholarship Program

Transport for NSW School Travel Applications for 2023

Please see this communication from Transport for NSW regarding School Travel Applications for 2023.

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Mr Ari Guha
Head of Junior School 
aguha@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9953 6022