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As we wrapped up the final week of sport for the 2023 year it is important to instill in the students the need for continuing with any sort of structure and routine particularly when it comes to physical activity over the extended holiday period. Maintaining this physical activity is beneficial for a number of reasons:

1. Maintaining Physical Health – regular activity is essential for overall health, by staying active during the holidays individuals can continue to reap the benefits (improving health, build & maintain healthy bones and muscles)
2. Preventing Sedentary Behaviour and Maintaining Social Interaction – often during extended breaks we lead towards an increase in sedentary behaviour (excessive screen time or prolonged periods of sitting). Regular physical activity helps counteract the negative effects, so get out of the house, go for a run, a swim, get some mates together and play some touch football or basketball, go for a row. Maintaining these social connections during holidays continues to create a sense of community and provides opportunities for positive social interactions.
3. Mental Wellbeing and Cognitive Function – physical activity has been linked to improved mental health and has been shown to positively impact cognitive function and academic performance. It can not only reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression but can help students maintain focus, concentration and cognitive abilities, making it easier to transition back into academic routines when school returns.
4. Energy Levels and Sleep Quality – consistent exercise during holidays can help regular sleep patterns and prevent disruptions that might occur due to changes in routine. 
5. Skill Development and Improvement – engaging is regular activity allows individuals to develop and improve their skills. Whether it is learning a new sport, refining techniques or building on existing abilities, continued practice during holidays contributes to ongoing skill development.

The Sports Department and I are wishing you all a safe, enjoyable and active holiday break. We are looking forward to seeing you all in 2024 for another year of sport!

‘Great decisions are made from the bad decisions from your past. Every lesson learned from every mistake that you’ve made, has given you the wisdom to make better choices to pave a better path, for a brighter future.’

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From the Head of Secondary Sport – Mr Cameron Ellis 

National Basketball Championships Update

We were fortunate enough to take three teams to the National Basketball Championships this week in the Gold Coast.

• First Girls
• First Boys
• Under 17 Boys

This week has been highly successful for us, with both boys’ teams advancing to the semifinals. Special mention to the Under 17 Boys, who are entering the semifinals with an undefeated record. The upcoming semifinals and finals are scheduled for Thursday and Friday, featuring matchups against teams from various regions across Australia.

The First Girls have delivered impressive performances over the three days, facing formidable opponents.

Simon Gleeson
Director of Basketball

Fitness Centre

Injury Clinic

Students now have access to an Injury Triage Clinic at school on Monday mornings 7:00-8:00am with structured support for students undergoing injury rehabilitation.

Injury Triage Clinic is for students who log an incident report over the weekend and are advised to follow up, have ongoing issues or concerns, or are absent at school or sport due to injury. Appointments are delivered by our physiotherapy provider Tensegrity and are designed to better support our students in triaging potential injuries and planning a suitable course of action.

Where appointments or attendance to injury clinic isn’t possible, we advise booking an appointment with relevant medical professionals. If students seek external physiotherapy/medical support, they are asked to fill out the following form and provide details to the school.

View Form Here

About Tensegrity

Tensegrity Sports Clinics’ chiros and remedial massage therapists are experts in movement and function and exist to provide accessible treatment for restoring and improving the wellbeing and performance of their patients.

With more than 10 years of experience working alongside PTs and Sydney’s best gyms, their team will help you smash your performance goals while avoiding injury and reducing pain or discomfort.

Boasting 8 convenient clinics across Sydney, Tensegrity Sports Clinics exists to redefine manual therapy treatment and rehabilitation. Our team of experts deliver patient-centred care by linking the cause and symptoms to their goals. We aspire to improve healthcare by creating a space for people to reach their full physical and performance potential.

About Luke

Luke leads our Injury Clinic sessions on a Monday and is a senior chiropractor at Tensegrity Sports Clinics Dee Why and Bella Vista with a passion for treating athletes. His interest in sports and how the human body performs in sport has led to his passion for treating athletes and aiding them in reaching their full performance potential. Luke played football from a young age on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and continues to be involved in the sport.

Luke uses the vast array of tools chiropractors have at their disposal when caring for patients and enjoys using exercises in treatment.

Mia Lundquist
Director of Strength and Conditioning

Hockey

Good news! Following the U13 Indoor hockey State Championship a couple of weekends ago, Otis Gait has been selected to represent NSW U13 State team at the National Indoor Hockey Championships in January 2024. He’s shown massive determination and resilience to get here following his injuries over the last 18 months and is really excited about the opportunity.
Here’s an action pic of Otis at Orange!

Rowing

Good luck to all the students competing at this weekend’s CGS Regatta in Canberra!

The rowing program is looking ahead to the last week of school term where there are some modifications to the training schedule:

SENIORS: Term 4 Week 9

• Mon 4/12: No Training
• Tue 5/12: No Training
• Wed 6/12: Water (6:30 – 10:00am)
• Thurs 7/12: No Training
• Fri 8/12: Water (6:30 – 10:00am)
• Sat 9/12: Optional Holiday Training – Water (6:30-9:00am)

YEAR 8: Term 4 Week 9

• Mon 4/12: No Training
• Tue 5/12: No Training
• Wed 6/12: No Training
• Thurs 7/12: Optional Holiday Training – Water (6:30-9:00am)
• Fri 8/12: No Training
• Sat 9/12: Optional Holiday Training – Water (8:45-11:00am)

YEAR 7: Term 4 Week 9

• Mon 4/12: No Training
• Tue 5/12: No Training
• Wed 6/12: No Training
• Thurs 7/12: Optional Holiday Training – Water (6:30-9:00am)
• Fri 8/12: No Training
• Sat 9/12: Optional Holiday Training – Water (8:45-11:00am)

The google link for the optional holiday sessions for both 2023 and 2024 can be found at the following:

Seniors

DEC 2023: More Information 

JAN 2024: More Information 

Juniors

DEC 2023: More Information 

JAN 2024: More Information 

James Petering
Director of Rowing

Sailing

The sailors this week had a chance to wind down after the intense training leading up to the Redlands Cup. The Elliott sailors had the opportunity to participate in important man overboard drills. The Pacer Squad has shifted their focus towards teams racing, with various regattas coming up in the new year. Focus on games-based drills that promoted their teamwork has been especially helpful in building these skills. A special mention and good luck as well to our sailing Capitan Alissandra Braden who is currently down in Melbourne competing in the ILCA 6 Sail Melbourne Regatta.

Danielle Steer
Sailing Administrator/ Director of Snowsports

Tennis

Unfortunately, the NSTA season came to a close under wet weather conditions and the students were not able to play their final matches, but we would like to congratulate all players for a challenging but rewarding season this term! We hope all players across divisions were able to develop their skills and matchplay – particularly those new to competition. We look forward to returning to competition next year!

A reminder training will continue as usual this week as the last training sessions of the term but there will be no Saturday sessions. Friday morning makeup training will run for those who missed out on their makeup last week as well.

Caitlin Wong
Tennis Administrator

Touch Football

Rainy conditions last Saturday left a handful of our regional travelling games with a washout, however Sydney based games were lucky enough to go ahead.

Our teams demonstrated great skills in the wet weather, with close games in many of our divisions!

The Junior B girls, Junior B boys closing out the day with great wins, 6-2 and 4-2.

Coaches have nominated the following players for stand out efforts for Round 6.

• Eliana Angus
• Sammy Beck
• Harrison Joesph & Robbie Smith
• Conor Petersen
• Sunny Ho

Good Luck

A handful of school students and many of our coaches are off to the NSW Touch Football Senior State Cup this coming weekend. We wish all the best of luck and look forward to hearing results.

Students: Sam Wightwick (Womens Open division), Alexia Van der Mewre and Arkie Riches (U20s division)

Coaches: Josh, Keaton, Luke, Tommy, Chloe, Portia, Liv, Katie, Emma, Ella and Jordy. (Mens/Womens Opens division)

Enjoy your well learnt break over the Holidays, keep an eye out for Holiday sessions form published through pulse news to keep your skills up for return to sport in Term 1.

Jordan Parsonage
Director of Touch Football & Rugby

Interschools Mountain Biking

The Australian MTB Interschools returns to Thredbo in 2024 for another week of action-packed riding, racing and good times with all your school mates from far and wide. Compete as an individual or as a team and pick which events you’d like to compete in. Registrations will sell out so be sure to rally your mates up and descend on Thredbo for the best week of the school year!

Registrations for this event will be going live in November. Details regarding schedule and formats dropping soon.

To stay up to date with all event & entertainment news, please follow us on socials and our newsletter.

More information can be found here – Australian MTB Interschools

General Sport Information

Fixtures

• 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.
• Students must wear trainer style sneakers that are preferably white with non-marking soles. It is part of our shared responsibility to ensure that students wear footwear that aligns with the activity to be undertaken. High top sneakers, Vans, Converse etc. are not appropriate for School Sport.

Saturday Sport Absences

• Parents are required to log an absence via Clipboard prior to missing any training session.
• 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 and result in school disciplinary action.
• Please refer to the Student Planner 2023 for full details on requirements for participating in a Representative Sport.
• Bus Transport
  • When travelling on Redlands transport the Redlands school rules are in place and students should be always upholding the values of the school:
• Have good behaviour, safe behaviour and appropriate language at all times.
• Follow the driver (and supervising staff) instructions at all times.
• Obey the transport rules and regulations at all times (seat belts must be worn at all times).
• Leave the bus how they found it (no rubbish, no mess).

Students who fail to meet the standards of the above will face school disciplinary action.

Wet Weather

• We have been lucky enough to have a relatively dry winter and to start the summer season, we use a number of fields that are multi-purpose and all weather.
• Unless communicated differently or in the morning of the session (via Redlands Pulse & Clipboard), all training sessions are to be deemed ‘on’.
• Students should bring with them a change of Redlands Sport Uniform (Thursdays only) or their school uniform (Tuesday) if there are light showers during training.

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 additional questions, please reach out to the appropriate Sports Administrator listed at the bottom of this page.

Sports Photos

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

Photo Library >> Schoolsports 2022-23 >> select your sport

Password (redlands2023) Redlands has an agreement with SPA Images that we will only use the images for marketing purposes.

Melba has finalised all photos taken of sport teams and co-curricular activities and they are now available for parents to view and purchase. Please visit the Melba Studios website, Select the ‘Schools’ icon. The password for access is winnie.

Concussion Protocols

Parents and Carers last week received an email containing the Redlands Concussion Protocols, which can also be found in the Key Documents section of Redlands Pulse – Secondary School Sport. A reminder to all that these protocols are for both a return to school and a return to sport. Students who have a suspected concussion are asked to seek medical attention at their earliest convenience.

Summer Sport – Key Contacts