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Maximising Wellbeing & Minimising Risk

The Sport Department is working closely with the Redlands Executive to observe all guidance from the Association of Independent Schools of NSW, as we seek to safely maximise sporting opportunities for our students in 2022, (concurrently minimising the potential for Covid transmission).

Our approach to planning for the safest possible resumption of Sports Activities includes:

Please click on this link to access the Redlands – Covid-19 Sport Protocols for this Saturday. This document will provide you with an overview of the current protocols that are in place at each of the Redlands home sporting venues. The Sports Administrators will communicate with families directly on the requirement in place at ‘away’ venues each week.

 Mask-wearing

• Mask-wearing is required when traveling between sports venues and on school grounds (this includes students walking or traveling by bus to or from school).

• Secondary School students must always wear masks at indoor sports venues when not exercising, including in change room and bathroom facilities.

Change-Rooms and Uniform

• In order to minimise large groups of students mixing in changing rooms, students have permission to wear their PE uniform to school on days they have Sport training.

 Representative Sport

• Students whose Representative Sport training session is not scheduled on Thursday afternoon will be dismissed from school at 2.30pm.
• Sport Specific information is also available to families on the Secondary School Sports Page on Redlands Pulse.

Swimming

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the 2022 Redlands Swimming Carnival has been postponed until Tuesday 14th June 2022, Term 2, Week 8.

We are asking all Redlands students who are keen to represent Redlands at the ISA Swimming Championships to complete the ISA Swimming Registration (please note students only will have access to the Google Survey, via their Redlands School email address). The ISA Swimming Championships on Wednesday 9 March 2022 (Term 1, Week 6).

Please note this date is a direct clash with Year 7 Camp, so unfortunately students in Year 7 are unable to compete in this year’s ISA Swimming Championships.

Registrations are currently open and will close at 6.00pm Tuesday 1March (Term 1, Week 5).

If you have any questions, please contact Mr Ellis in the Sports Department cellis@redlands.nsw.edu.au.

More information regarding the ISA Carnival will be available on Redlands Pulse Swimming in the coming weeks.

Winter Sport Registrations

On Monday 21 February, the 2022 Winter Sport Registration process will open, students will be emailed this link via their Year Group iLearn page. Registrations close on Thursday 3 March at 4:00pm. Students and Parents should read the preliminary information on Redlands Pulse – Winter Sport to gain and understanding of the sporting commitments required for the winter season.

Please note: those students (including current Yr 12) who completed a non-rep summer sport must complete a Winter Representative Sport

Fixtures

A friendly reminder that the weekly Fixtures (The Redlands Rhino) can be found on the Secondary School Sport page on Redlands Pulse or on the Redlands App from Wednesday each week. Please ensure you check this on Friday each week to ensure you have the most up to date fixture information.

Attendance at Sport

Over the past few weeks, we have had a significant number of students missing from their training sessions and fixtures. While we do understand that students do fall ill between Friday and Saturday morning, can we please draw your attention to the following communication processes to assist the Sports Department with the management of programs during the week at training and Saturday fixtures.

1. Parents are required to send an email to the appropriate Sports administrator prior to missing any training session asking for them to be excused 
2. Any student unable to attend a Saturday fixture due to illness, is required to submit a Medical Certificate to their Sports administrator by the Monday morning following the missed fixture
3. Injured students are required to attend all training sessions and Saturday fixtures
4. Failure to do any of the above will jeopardise a student’s eligibility for Colours, Pockets, and Awards & result in school disciplinary action

Please note that the first unexplained absence will result in a lunchtime detention with further unexplained absences escalating to a Friday afternoon Detention. Please refer to the Student Planner 2022 for full details on requirements for participating in a Representative Sport.

Key Contacts

Representative Sport

Touch Football

There was some great Touch Football played out at Oakhill College and St Pauls Grammar School on Saturday, with the Boys managing to get some games under their belt, while the weather played havoc with the Girls teams. The Snr A boys had a tough initiation into the ISA Division 1 Boys system, taking on the Oakhill 1 team who boast 7 of the ISA representative team that took out the NSWCIS Championships last year. The boys worked hard throughout the match and certainly took a lot out of the game for next week. The Jnr A boys were unlucky in their match, going down 5-8 to Oakhill also, again a great first hit out for the boys. The Jnr B boys had a strong win in their first match also against Oakhill with some impressive play across both halfs of Touch. The Jnr C boys had a more challenging time, taking on a very strong St Pauls Grammar School team. In a one-sided first half the boys really looked at the 2^nd half for improvement with some strong passages of play, allowing them to score 2 tries through the middle.

Basketball

It was great to see so many of our students back in action and playing basketball again on Saturday in what was the first round of the ISA Basketball Season for 2022. In the Girls Basketball, tensions were high as the ISA have moved to the first-past-the-post format. We had our teams competing against Barker, SACS and St Pauls. With some great competition and some close results, the Girls program came away with four wins (1^st Girls, Inter A Girls, Junior B Girls and Year 7A Girls), one draw (Junior A Girls) and three losses. The Boys Basketball also had some great contests over the weekend, coming away with four wins (15C, 15E, 14B and 13C) and eleven losses. Due to the late changes in the competition fixtures, not all of our Boys teams were able to play on Saturday but have been preparing hard for their first game this weekend.

We had a number of students attend ISA Basketball trials on Monday. A huge congratulations to the following students who were selected into the ISA team: Meera Coburn (Open Girls), Emilie Bessell (Open Girls), Eva Osborn (Open Girls), Nikola Barac (Open 1^st Boys) and Oliver Kebsy (Open 1^st Boys). We wish these students the best of luck as they represent the ISA in their upcoming fixtures/competitions.

The Friends of Basketball AGM will be held on Monday 21 February at 6pm. This meeting will be held over Zoom, you can find the link by clicking here. If you would like to be considered for a position on Friends of Basketball, or if you are interested in being involved in any capacity, please join the meeting on Monday.

A reminder to make Redlands Pulse your primary source of information for any sport related questions. The most up to date Basketball information can be found under the Basketball page including the training schedule, Basketball handbook and draft season fixtures. A reminder that the most up to date fixtures are available on Redlands Pulse under the “Redlands Rhino (fixtures)” tab  or the Redlands App on Tuesday afternoon of each week for the upcoming Saturday.

Best of luck to all teams this Saturday 19 February. 

Sailing

Last weekend our Redlands sailors competed in their first round of the Redlands Series for the year, giving them the opportunity to compete against each other. In the Pacer division, Alissandra Braden and her crew Conner Ikin took out first place, followed by Izaac Nisbet and his crew Caitlin Edwards in second and Alex Gibbs and his crew Hugo Baird in third. Meanwhile in the Elliott division, both teams tied on overall points, however Isabella Treloar and her crew; Eliza Osborne, Marlon Giacco, Jerry Sun and Ruairi Lambert, managed to win the final race of the day, making them the overall champions.

This week, our sailors will be training to compete at the Pittwater Secondary Schools Teams Racing Championships, taking place this Friday and Saturday.

Tennis

Congratulations to Tristan Wong (Year 10) on being selected in the ISA Boys Tennis team. He will now represent ISA at the CIS trials. Congratulations also to Isaac Swann (Year 10) and Kabir Yohannan (Year 10) on being named reserves for the ISA Boys Tennis team. 

It was great to see students back on the courts last weekend after a long hiatus from competition. There were some great displays of talent amongst the students which I’m sure will only get better as the season continues. It was pleasing to see students’ excellent sportsmanship on display win, lose, or draw.

A reminder for Round 2 (19 February) this weekend:

• If you are unable to attend Saturday competition, please email Luke Jeffery by no later than 12pm on Friday.
• Please check the draw and playing pairs list to see when/where/who you are playing.
• For any questions, please email Luke Jeffery.

Please join me in wishing the Tennis students all the best for their upcoming matches this weekend!

Wet Weather

General

In the event that training is cancelled due to wet weather, a notification will be posted on the Redlands Sport Twitter page (@RedlandsSport) in addition, an email will be sent out to both students and parents. This includes morning and afternoon training along with weekend fixtures.

Thursday afternoon sport – wet weather arrangements (Year 8-12)
In order to limit student mixing indoors, Students in Year 8-12 who are dismissed at the end of Period 5 are required to go directly home. Sport coaches and Redlands staff will supervise their COVID-safe departure. 

Thursday afternoon sport – wet weather arrangements (Year 7)
In the event that year 7 sport is cancelled on Thursday afternoon, students will remain at school until 3.10pm and participate in cohort-based activities.

Thursday afternoon – early departure (Year 8-12)
As we attempt to limit student mixing indoors, there will be no classroom supervision for students who do not have any scheduled sport training on a Thursday afternoon. Therefore, students who do not have training on Thursday afternoon will have permission to leave early.

Fitness Centre

With Summer Sport up and running and our Winter Sport athletes beginning their prep for the 2022 ISA Season the Fitness Centre is the perfect place to build strength, work on speed and improve endurance. All students can access the morning sessions which run Monday–Friday and start promptly at 6.30am. We have had brilliant numbers across the sessions with over 35 students attending our Wednesday morning session this week.

In addition, starting from next week, the Fitness Centre will also be open to all students on Wednesday afternoon. This afternoon session will be targeted towards specific areas of development such as speed, power and flexibility. For all of our Winter Rep. Athletes, this Wednesday afternoon session is a fantastic way to prepare for the upcoming season. As well as the Wednesday Open Session, Monday will be a specific session for our 1st Boys Basketball. This session can also be accessed by specific athletes who have had prior permission from the Director of Athletic Development Mr Jack Gooding.

Students are reminded to bring with them the following.

• A water bottle
• Towel
• Redlands PE / Sports Uniform

Sports and students are asked to contact the Director of Athletic Development Mr Jack Gooding jgooding@redlands.nsw.edu.au for any specific questions regarding these sessions.

Trainer of the Week

Following on from Isaac Brooks efforts from last week we have another Redlands Trainer of the Week. For this week, the winner is none other than Heidi De Saxe. Heidi has been one of our strongest and most committed members of our Fitness Community and through COVID would often attend multiple sessions each day. Heidi has continued her efforts to start Term 1 and has achieved some incredible results including moving an amazing 72.5kg on the Trap Bar Deadlift for a whopping 15 reps. Heidi is an active member of the Junior As for Redlands Touch Football and will also be representing Redlands in Netball for the Winter Season.

Student Achievement – Hockey

A huge congratulation to Sebastien Griffith who, following an intensive 2 days of trial, has been selected to play in the NSW U18 Hockey Team. We wish him all the very best of luck over the representative Hockey season and look forward to hearing further updates!

Redlands Running Academy

If your teenager(s) has an interest in running and would like to build fitness for the Redlands XC Carnival at the end of the term, there will be a Wednesday morning running group called the ‘Redlands Running Academy’ for selected students which will meet every Wednesday morning at 6.20am in the Senior Campus Undercroft for a continuous half hour run, returning to school by 7.15am. For more information please email sports@redlands.nsw.edu.au

Mrs Alison Cox
Head of Secondary School Sport
acox@redlands.nsw.edu.au