Redlands House and PreKindergarten
Parent Teacher Interviews for Seniors
Parent Teacher Interviews for families of Senior and PreK students will be held next week, from Monday 18 March to Friday 22 March. Interviews can be booked here. The code is ubapd. Bookings are open and can be made until Friday 15 March at 9am. If you cannot attend these interviews in person, we can arrange for the interview to be conducted via Zoom. Please book in and advise your teacher directly if you would prefer a Zoom interview session.
Interviews for families of Junior Students will be held in Term 2.
Harmony Day
Harmony Week is next week! On Thursday 21 March we will celebrate Harmony Day on the Junior Campus. Harmony Day is an Australian government initiative designed to help us celebrate our culturally diverse nation beginning with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples who have called this land home from the beginning. We are asking students and staff to wear a touch of orange as the official Harmony Day colour. This includes normal school uniform and a touch of orange, like shoelaces, sneakers, hair ribbon, socks, ties or handmade Harmony Day badges and bracelets. Consider it “accessorising” with orange.
One of the special things about Redlands is that we are a culturally diverse community. We have much to celebrate, learn and take pride in. Harmony Day is an opportunity to open up conversations at home and school where we choose to share our cultural heritage and identity by listening with respect and interest to the stories of others. We can share songs, photos, stories, language and hospitality. Harmony Week might look like sharing food with another family one evening indicative of your cultural heritage. Teaching a friend a greeting in your home language or having a conversation about how we speak about others from cultures different to your own. Whatever it is we look forward to help students grow in their appreciation of our diverse and unique community.
April Vacation Care 2024 for Redlands House and PreK
We would like to invite you to enrol your child in our upcoming April 2024 Vacation Care program. To obtain all relevant information pertaining to the holiday activity schedule and daily requirements, we encourage you to visit the Extended Care page in Pulse starting from Friday 8 March 2024 (6pm). You may proceed with your booking by sending an email directly to Extendedcare@redlands.nsw.edu.au starting from Monday 11 March 10am. Please do not book via hubhello. We kindly remind you that the deadline for making bookings is Monday 8 April. Please note that any bookings made after this date will not be accepted. Also be advised that bookings are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. We recommend making your booking as soon as possible to secure your place in the program. In the event of any Vacation Care queries, please do not hesitate to contact Trishna Rai trai@redlands.nsw.edu.au.
Vacation Care: 15-26 April, 8am to 6pm.
Please note 25 April is ANZAC Day and a Public Holiday – no Vacation Care
International Day
The wonderful Redlands International Day will be held on 9 April. This is a day for us to celebrate the rich international flavour that makes Redlands the diverse and inclusive community that it is.
As always, we would love to welcome parents into our classrooms who would like to share their own unique culture with our students. This may take the shape of storytelling, books, costumes, music. dancing or art and craft experiences. Please speak to your class teacher if you would like to share with the class
Mrs Chemane Huon
Redlands House and Transition Coordinator
chuon@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9904 1448
Mrs Ainslie Breckenridge
Head of Preparatory School
abreckenridge@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9848