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Summer Sport

A reminder that all key information for the season has been uploaded onto the Secondary School Sport page of Redlands Pulse, if you have any addition questions, please reach out to the appropriate Sports Administrator listed below:

Summer Sport – Key Contacts

Independant Sporting Association 

ISA Code of Conduct 

As we move into round 2 of the Summer ISA Sporting Season, we would like to draw your attention to the ISA Code of Conduct for both Players and Spectators. The full document is available on the Secondary School Sport page of Redlands Pulse and we encourage all parents and players to familiarise themselves with the expectations when participating in participating in ISA Sporting competitions.

GUIDELINES FOR PLAYERS 

2.1       Once committed to a sport for the season, players must honour that commitment wholeheartedly. This same commitment applies to ISA representation. (Level of breach: 1, 2 or 3)   

2.2       Players are expected to be modest in success and generous in defeat, not showing in either case undue emotion.  (Level of breach: 1 or 2)   

2.3       Players are also expected to acknowledge, willingly and openly, good play by either school. Players should not celebrate the opposition’s mistakes. (Level of breach: 1)   

2.4       Players should be positive in their approach to games and should adhere strictly to the rules/laws and spirit of the game.  The referee or umpire’s decision is final, and the Captain of the team is the only one who may ask for clarification of a decision at the appropriate time. (Level of breach: 1 or 2)   

2.5       The ISA is committed to a ZERO TOLERANCE approach for any abuse towards officials through negative comments or actions. (Level of breach: 2 or 3)   

2.6       Players shall never resort to violent or abusive language or behaviour or engage in unfair or illegal tactics to gain an advantage.  Racial vilification will not be tolerated under any circumstances. (Level of breach: 2 or 3)   

2.7        Players should be punctual and adhere to their school’s dress code.  The home team – and in particular the Captain should welcome the visiting team and its Captain.  At the conclusion of the game acknowledgment and thanks should be given to referees, umpires, officials such as scorers/touch judges and the opposition. (Level of breach: 1)   

GUIDELINES FOR SPECTATORS 

3.1       Spectators must remember that this is “kids” school sport, let them have fun. It is not the World Cup.    

3.2       Spectators are expected to be positive role models. They must behave respectfully and courteously towards players, coaches, match officials and other spectators. (Level of breach: 1, 2 and 3)  

3.3       Spectators are not to approach or address game officials or any of the opposing players, spectators or staff.  If a spectator has a genuine concern, this needs to be presented to their own school official who will determine any action to be taken. (Level of breach: 1, 2 or 3)  

3.4       Unless invited onto a field/court, spectators must never encroach onto the field/court. (Level of breach: 1, 2 or 3)   

3.5       Barracking should be enthusiastic and positive, but not designed to heckle, denigrate or unsettle opponents.  For example, barracking during a free throw or a kick at goal and so forth is always bad sportsmanship.  (Level of breach 1 or 2)   

3.6       Sledging and negative comments are totally unacceptable. Good play by either team should be recognised by applause. (Level of breach 1 or 2)   

3.7       It is never right to express disapproval of a referee or umpire’s decision, irrespective of his/her age. The ISA is committed to a ZERO TOLERANCE approach for any abuse towards officials through negative comments or actions. (Level of breach 1, 2 or 3)   

3.8       Vocal support for any team should never encourage violence, rough or illegal play.  (Level of breach 2 or 3)   

3.9       Visitors to the grounds should co-operate fully with any regulations or requests made by the host school, such as car parking, seating, dressing rooms and the placing of spectators.  At all times visitors should leave the area tidy and free of rubbish when they leave.  (Level of breach 1, 2 or 3)   

3.10      Alcohol is not to be consumed at ISA fixtures. (Level of breach: 2 or 3) 

Sports Photos

All Sports Photos are available for parents to view / purchase on the SPA Images Website. 

On the Photo Library Tab Photo Library – SPA Images , select Schoolsports2022 > sport of choice

Password (redlands2022)

Redlands has an agreement with SPA Images that we will only use the images for marketing purposes.

Basketball

Thank you to all of our students, parents and coaches for a great term of basketball! It has been fantastic to see our students in action and improving week-to-week throughout the term. A reminder that there is no basketball in Term 1, Week 9. We look forward to recommencing the ISA Basketball Season again in Term 1.

Our 1st Boys & 1st Girls are currently on the Gold Coast competing in the Australian Schools Basketball Championships. With both teams starting the competition with a 2-2 record they have both placed themselves in a good position to make the top 4! You can see how our teams are doing by going to the Basketball Australia website.

A massive congratulations to our Director of Basketball Coaching, Renae Garlepp, who has recently returned from Guam with a Gold Medal. Renae was the assistant coach for the U15 Australian Girls team who competed in the 2022 FIBA Oceania Championship.

Sydney SuperSonics 3×3 Basketball Camps

Join the Sydney SuperSonics 3×3 basketball camps this December! Hosted by Professional 3×3 basketball players, who want to pass their knowledge & love for the game on to the next generation. This is a great opportunity to keep your basketball skills up during the school break and return in the New Year better than ever!

See flyer for more details & how to get in touch.

Touch Football

Round Recap

A special mention to the Senior 3 boys who managed an impressive win with just 5 players over the weekend.

Thank you to the handful of our Junior A boys who with a bye week travelled and supported the Senior 2 boys to claim their first win of the season.

Congratulations to Daisy Williams, Aneke Golowenko and Amynta Field who also debuted for Senior 1sts over the last weekend. An outstanding result for our firsts girls in this game taking a huge win, 22-1.

TEAM OF THE WEEK, R6:

Snr 1: Ethan James

Snr 2: Tom Reeves

Snr 3: Conor Peterson

Jnr B: Harrison Murphy

Snr 1 : Lily Attard

Snr 4: Mia Mcfarlane

Inter A: Sela Tea

Inter B: Alex Symmons

Jnr B: Anya Price

Invitational Experiences: BEACH TOUCH

Last week the first of many invitational experiences were undertaken for some Touch Football players.

The Beach Touch Tournament was a great success with our Inter girls & Senior girls flying through round games undefeated before both teams went down to eventual winners of the day in the Semis.

We look forward to rewarding high performing, hardworking & well behaved students with further opportunities in 2023.

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Holiday Program 2023 registration is linked on the Touch Football Pulse page.

Good luck to our Redlanders heading up to Port Macquarie this coming weekend for NSW Touch Senior State Cup, the following players are involved:

Bronte Backhouse
Lilly Attard
Kayla Carlson
Sam Wightwick
Arkie Riches
Heidi De Saxe
Alexia Van der Merwe

Enjoy your break, looking forward to round games starting back up on Saturday 4 February 2023, with mostly home games for Term 1 next year!

Rowing

The past week has seen our rowing students go through their final round of testing and crew selections for 2022 with students achieving many PB’s along the way, a great reflection of their efforts at training so far this term.

Recently information has been emailed home to all families regarding the training sessions available throughout the summer holidays, a reminder that the RSVP for the December sessions is Wednesday 7 December 2022 and the January sessions is Monday 2 January 2023. Copies of this information can be found on the rowing page of Pulse along with the Google form links listed below:

Seniors

December 2022

January 2023

Juniors

December 2022

January 2023

A further reminder that information regarding the January Rowing Camps has also been emailed to all students and families, the RSVP for this is Friday 16 December 2022 which includes both the Office of Sport registration along with permission on Pules. Copies of this information can also be found on the rowing page of Pulse.

Tennis

We would like to commend the finalists from NSTA 1, 5, 8 and 14 that played some great matches against their opponents, and we hope all students enjoyed the competition this term! We would also like to acknowledge the students who competed in the 2022 School Boys and School Girls Junior Tennis Tournament last week and produced some amazing results! Isaac Swann and Matteo Stucci placed runners up for the Teams event against Central Coast. The two players also faced off in the Singles event with Matteo runners up and Isaac taking competition winner. We hope the participating students enjoyed this experience and we will look to offering more opportunities like this in the future.  

This will be the last week for Summer Tennis training this term with an optional Tuesday morning session offered next Tuesday 6 December for Group 1 – compulsory for TNB players that may make the finals playing the Saturday 10 December. TNB players please make sure to be checking your emails for court locations and information. We will be looking to set up an internal communications system next term for these players as emails on the day of competition can be hard to access.

We hope all players have had a great term of Summer Tennis and we wish you all the best over the holiday period. Please keep an eye out for an email this week or next outlining our holiday program offered the week before Term 1 starts.

Please contact Ms Caitlin Wong should you have any questions regarding Summer Tennis.

Sailing

Last weekend, our sailors competed in their last Redlands series race day for the year. Conditions were challenging with a moderate southerly, challenging our sailor’s boat handling skills and teamwork as the breeze was patchy on parts of the racecourse. Picket fencing the day (placing first in all races) was sailing captain Oliver Noakes and his team in the Elliott racing. Alissandra Braden & Ruby Gasmus also picket-fenced the day for the Pacers, closely followed by Max Nicholson and Hugo Christy.

Please note that we still have training all this week, and while there is no official training during the holidays, several options exist to sail with RSYS throughout the summer. For more details, please follow this link.

Girls AFL

We are looking at entering the 2023 Term 1 Summer Girls AFL Competition. This would be an optional extra that sits alongside your current summer sport.

We must meet several criteria for going ahead with this competition, including the number of players per team, other sports that students participate in, and players’ experience.

Please fill out the summer AFL EOI form if you are interested in playing Summer AFL.

The details:

Games: Upper and Lower Northshore primarily – possible 1-2 games in the Eastern suburbs.
Times: will be after 1.30pm each Saturday
Competition length: 8-10 weeks
Player numbers: around 20 players per team to be able to go ahead with a team.
Training: training would be mornings or on a Friday afternoon.

If you have any questions, could you let Mr Pryor know as soon as possible.

General Sport Information

Wet Weather

While every effort will be made to provide alternative training options, if sport needs to be cancelled due to wet weather a notification will be posted on the Redlands Sport Twitter page (@RedlandsSport) and an email will be sent out to both students and parents. This includes morning & afternoon training along with weekend fixtures.

Thursday afternoon sport training– wet weather arrangements (Year 8-12)
Students in Year 8-12 who are dismissed at the end of Period 5 are required to go directly home. 
Thursday afternoon sport training – wet weather arrangements (Year 7)
In the event that year 7 sport is cancelled on Thursday afternoon, students will remain at school until 3.20pm and participate in sport-based activities.

Fixtures

As of Term 4, all student training and fixture details will be available to families under My Schedule on Redlands Pulse. Additionally, the weekly Fixtures (The Redlands Rhino) can be found on the Secondary School Sport page on Redlands Pulse from Wednesday each week. Please ensure you check Redlands Pulse Friday afternoon to ensure you have the latest fixture information.

Uniform

The Redlands sports uniform should be worn to all trainings and matches (students are not permitted to wear any non-Redlands branded clothing). In the event of inclement weather students should wear their Redlands fleece or sports tracksuit. 

Sport Absences

Parents are required to send an email to the appropriate Sports administrator prior to missing any training session asking for their son/daughter to be excused 

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

Injured students are required to attend all training sessions and Saturday fixtures

Failure to do any of the above will jeopardise a student’s eligibility for Colours, Pockets, and Awards & result in school disciplinary action

Please refer to the Student Planner 2022 for full details on requirements for participating in a Representative Sport.

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