RPFA
This week, we celebrated our amazing teachers and admin staff by bringing in morning tea as a way to show our appreciation for their efforts in creating a safe and welcoming learning environment for all our young people as well as stimulating and challenging their minds. Thank you for everything you do!
Spring Fair – Save the Date
Saturday 3 September
Our next event will be the highly anticipated Spring Fair on Saturday 3 September, a day centred around food, fun and entertainment, showcasing the community’s diversity and depth of students’ art-related activities. We’re having a kick-off meeting next week Wed 8 Jun 10.30am via Microsoft Teams! Click here to add your name to the invite list.
Collections
Final Call for Light for Lismore
Collections of stationery and craft supplies will end this Friday 3 June. Thank you to everyone who has already donated items. Through this collection, we are helping to support 170 registered educators and around 2,000 children per week. Without these educators, there is no care for these children, while their parents work and try to rebuild their lives after losing everything.
Our Prep and Junior School children are decorating boxes for each of the educators and writing letters of hope to their peers in Lismore. Let’s help to fill up these boxes with as many requested items as possible. Craft supplies such as scissors, dough kits, palettes, beads, pom poms, tissue paper and string are especially needed in addition to any of the items on the list below. Please donate items in Redlands House and Prep receptions areas and Junior School classrooms.
Worn Up Uniform Recycling
As part of our sustainability efforts, Redlands has partnered with Worn Up with the aim of diverting old school uniforms from landfill to be upcycled into new products. The RPFA will be collecting old Redlands branded uniforms that are not suitable for the second hand uniform until next Wednesday 8 June, with collection bins located in the Prep, Junior and Senior school receptions. Please do not send in current uniforms in good condition, which can be donated in Term 3, or non-Redlands branded items, as the RPFA has limited storage space and volunteers to sort through the items. Speaking of which, do let us know if you’re around next week to help sort and pack!
Coming Up
Parent / Family Get-togethers
Thur 2 Jun Yr 8 drinks at Mosman Rowers from 6.30pm (ticketed event)
Wed 8 Jun Yr 11 Big Night Out at The Licensee’s Flat (upstairs) at The Oaks from 6pm. Purchase tickets here
Thur 9 Jun 2 Blue and 2 White Mum’s Night Out at the Green Moustache, North Sydney from 7.30pm. Please RSVP by Mon 6 Jun to your class parent
Wed 15 Jun Yr 10 Mexican Night at SoCal, Neutral Bay from 6.30pm. Purchase tickets by Fri 3 Jun here.
Thurs 16 Jun Yr 9 coffee catch up at Le Patisserie 76 from 8-10am
Yr 5 Mum’s Night Out at the Green Moustache, North Sydney from 7pm.
Purchase tickets before Thurs 9 Jun here
Fri 17 Jun Yr 12 coffee morning at Pasture of Balmoral, 51 The Esplanade from 8.30am
Fri 24 Jun Yr 12 Formal Night Parent Celebration at the Firegrill in the CBD. Book here
‘Friends of’ Events
Sun 5 Jun Friends of Music morning tea from 10am at the Senior Music Hub – please RSVP to Lisa Connors if you’d like to come to this casual affair and maybe catch a glimpse of the Senior Music Festival rehearsal. Everyone is welcome.
Sat 9 Jul Friends of Snowsports Redlands Cup dinner in Thredbo. Get your tickets here
Thurs 25 Aug Friends of Hockey end of season dinner at Balgowlah Bowling Club
Fri 29 Jul Friends of Rugby informal dinner and drinks in Bowral
Tues 6 Sept Friends of Football end of season dinner at Dee Why RSL
Thurs 15 Sept Friends of Netball end of season dinner at Dee Why RSL
Walks on Tracks
Our next walk on Wed 8 Jun is from Little Manly to North Head. Meet at Little Manly beach at 8.40am. Any questions, please call Carys on 0423 663 970.
Book Club
The Book Club will have a special meeting tomorrow Fri 3 Jun to meet author George Paxinos and discuss his book A River Divided. Enquiries and new members welcome. Please contact Katherine Dixon or call 0432 619 890 for further information.
We are excited to announce that our books for next semester are: The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns and The Island of Missing Trees by Élif Shafak.
Photo Gallery
A beautiful day at the Friends of Rowing Foot of the River Regatta and a couple of winning teams – the Campbell Cops and the Bachel-oar-ettes
2022 RPFA Committee
President: JP Forrest
Vice President: Brittne Whitelaw
Secretary: Rebecca James
Treasurer: Annette Swann
Committee – Declan Hourihan, Jennifer Mast, Jo Lloyd, Karen Nicholson, Kate Kesby, Lisa Middlebrook, Maria Kinsela, Monique Scattini