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Great weather to be a duck! Winter has certainly started and thrown some curveballs for the winter season. However it was great to see some excellent sport played across the weekend with a number of Tennis, AFL, Football, Netball and Hockey teams managing to get in some great fixtures.

A key focus this term for sport is empowering young adults in order to significantly contribute to life readiness. By fostering skills and traits within sport we are able to set students up for success in life beyond the athletic arena. Within sport no matter the level competing we are working towards the following skills:

• Self-Discipline and Time Management – regular practice and adherence to regular schedules, students learn to manage their time effectively, balancing academics, sports and other responsibilities, this discipline translates to work and personal relationships.
• Resilience and Perseverance – facing challenges and learning from failures allows teenages to develop both skills, they will understand the value of hard work, dedication and bouncing back from setbacks which are crucial when faced with life’s obstacles.
• Teamwork and Collaboration – working together as a team towards a common goal, being able to communicate effectively and resolve conflict, these are vital in any profession or social setting.
• Leadership and Decision Making – whether team captains, future leaders, mentors or role models, leading within a team requires making quick decisions, motivating others and taking responsibility for outcomes. all of which are skills that are transferable to leadership roles in academics, career and/or community settings.
• Goal Setting and Achievement – setting and striving toward goals is fundamental in sports, learning to set realistic goals, creating plans and tracking progress is something that Redlands does well, particularly within Coaching Conversations within Tutor Groups. Achieving success in sports boosts self-confidence and instils a sense of accomplishment, motivating teenagers to pursue their aspirations in other areas.

Through our Sports programs we are certainly assisting students to acquire and develop a toolkit of skills that will prepare and empower them for the challenges and opportunities they’ll encounter throughout their lives. 

‘You’ll never know what you’re capable of until you take that first step and just go for it’
Natasha Hastings

Redlands Secondary Sports Calendar

• Saturday 11 May – ISA Round 2
• Monday 13 May – CIS Boys Basketball Trials
• Monday 13 May – ISA Boys & Girls Football Trials
• Tuesday 14 May – CIS U15 Hockey Championships
• Thursday 16 May – CIS U15 Netball Trials
• Sunday 19 May – Snowsports 2nd hand Ski Sale

AFL Round 1 – Recap

Redlands 1 vs Newington 2: (71-34) Win

Best on Ground: Charlie Stephens

Redlands 2 vs Waverly 7 (cancelled)

Best on Ground: n/a

Round 2 Fixtures are as follows

Keaton Dal Santo  
AFL Sport Coach

Athletics

Fitness Centre

Welcome to Term 2 in the Fitness Centre!

Over the holidays there have been some exciting additions to the Fitness Centre with the installation of new squat racks!

Session Sign Ups

Numbers have been great and sessions are filling up fast with over 126 session sign ups!

All students must be signed up to a session via Clipboard before attending an open gym session. Please click on the sign-up button located on the Fitness Centre Pulse page.

All students are provided with a daily program to complete within sessions that nurture long term development as well as challenge students short term goals and aspirations.

Students who sign up to the gym must adhere to the following conditions of use:

– Session format: All students participate in structured sessions designed and delivered by the S&C Staff
– Session Start/Finish times as per Year Group
– Must be in PE Uniform
– Closed in shoes
– No headphones
– Adhere to all safety and hygiene measures in the gym

Session Times:

MON/TUES/THURS/FRI

• Year 11-12: 6:30-6:45 Latest Arrival/Start Time
• Year 9-10: 6:45 Start Time
• Year 7/8: 7:10 Start time.

Afternoon sessions are reserved for Representative sports First Teams.

Wednesday mornings are reserved for Representative Hockey Senior Girls and Girls Only Gym.

Mia Lundquist 
Director of Strength & Conditioning

Football

Round 1 Recap:

Congratulations to everyone who was able to play last Saturday. The conditions were not great but our players showed resilience, responsibility and commitment turning up to their matches.

We had mixed results and already started to work on things that we can do better on the field for round 2 of the ISA competition.

Well done to our teams who performed well and gave it on the day, our Junior Girls A coming home with a great draw away from Barker, both Second XI Girls and Boys started with wins, 13A boys dominating the game against St Andrew’s and lastly the 15A,16A and 14A drawing their matches – a very good start.

ISA Round 2 our Girls program is at our new Synthetic at Macquarie and most of our boy’s program will be at Strathfield playing a very hard round against St Patricks.

Come along and support us!

Gerry Gomez  
Director of Football

Hockey

Last weekend marked Round 1 of the ISA Hockey Season and all three teams played at home (Barker) against Oxley. Despite some indifferent weather leading up to the weekend, the rain held off and we had three competitive matches. The 1sts started the day off strong with a 1-0 win and a solid defensive effort from all involved. The 2nds followed this up with another win and the 3rds put in a good first performance despite the result. Looking forward to round 2 at home again.

Netball

What a sensational start to the season.  With nine wins to open the season. It was so great to see, we had loads of support from parents and siblings, nearly all players had cut their nails too and there were no cool shoes – WAHOO!!

Player of the week: This season we will name players/trainers of the week throughout and share here in Note Day each week. These players demonstrate commitment to the team in training and/ or a strong performance in games.

• Firsts: Tahlia Stone, a valiant first game with the First VII, excellent shooting accuracy and many ball assists in the movement in to the circle.
• Inter D: Le Shyan Chua, showed great resilience this first game in trialling a new position of GK. She did very well, with lots of tips and intercepts.
• Junior E: Harlow Boddington, played the whole game keeping up high energy around the court. Had lots of great intercepts with tight defence and quick offloads with the ball.
• Inter A: Jessie McKeown, a great hustle throughout the game in the goal circle, read the play well and got some great intercepts.
• Senior 3: Syrah Hargrave, incredible shooting and was a key playmaker down the court. You could see her performance uplifted the whole team and pushed them to reflect the high standard she was playing at
• Inter C: Penny Vincent-McGovern, had a great game in C, helping the ball get down the court to the circle edge and getting a few tips and intercepts
• Junior H: Elysia Angus, played a great game as captain, gave lots of energy and had a great attitude. Made lots of intercepts and got the ball down the court.
• Junior A: Liv Law, played a  great game, didn’t stop running and intercepting. Had great feeds in to the circle.
• Inter C: Annie Matthews, played with high energy and utilised the plays practiced at training. Also tried a new position at the end of the game.
• Junior B: Issy Salz, kept on running and showed resilience in competing with strong players.
• Inter E: Eva Fitzhenry, had the most stellar defence. Got great rebounds and intercepts, great getting the ball out of the circle and centre third nice and quick.
• Junior C: Emma Foley, displayed great shooting and rebounding. She read the play of others around her and made great drives into space. In team huddles she lifted the energy of her other team mates.
• Junior G: Zara Siva, played a full strong game, maintaining tight defensive play whilst consistently reading the game and creating good breaks for her team mates.

Georgina Ford  
Director of Netball

Here is the draw for 11 May and all your netball information.

Rugby

We also ask that players and parents check the Pulse page and Rugby news notifications for weekly updates and important information.

• Fixtures have been loaded onto Pulse and student calendars.
• Rugby is a Representative Sport and as such attendance is compulsory to all trainings and fixtures. Absences must be logged through Pulse sport absence form.
• Opens (Year 11,12),  your compulsory 1x Gym session on Wednesdays 3.30-4.30pm. This session attendance is recorded.
• All other teams are encouraged to attend the Fitness Centre to compliment their athletic development. To attend the Fitness session, please read the Fitness Center pulse page. All other age students can select the morning they wish to attend but will need to register their attendance.

Focus for the week

We welcome our merge schools on Tuesdays for training weekly to enhance our on field performance. As a program this week we challenge our students to step outside of their comfort zone and embrace the opportunity to develop inter school relations creating new friendships.

On the field this weekend we are looking for players to execute core skills at a high level. We have focused heavily on what we can control as individuals on the field in pre season. We hope to see strong chop tackles, catch and pass and execution of numbers overlaps and/or positional mismatch.

Trainer of the week

The following players should be congratulated on their efforts over the last week.

These players demonstrated commitment to the team in training.

• Jenna Forrest
• Lachlan Andrews
• Chase Hindmarsh
• Finn O’Sullivan
• Adam Betts

Uniform

Students are to wear full Redlands rugby uniform for Saturday fixtures: School rugby shorts, jersey and socks. No metal stud boots. Mouth guard.

Firsts players will alternate between SACS/RED/BMGS jerseys this season, however always wearing their School’s own shorts and socks. We ask that 1sts (Opens, Year 11/12 ) age players always carry their REDLANDS jersey with them for the weekend.

Double Header Free Tickets for all School Rugby players – 11 May – (Wallaroos & Mens Waratahs)

This Saturday night is another Double Header as the Wallaroos take on Canada and Waratahs Men take on the ACT Brumbies. Please see below link for FREE TICKETS for all the Redlands students.

To access the free tickets, you can follow the below game link, which is specific to your school. Please be respectful of that, if it became public and people were taking the link for free tickets that are not your school kids that would ruin our ability to do this in the future. 

Free tickets.

SATURDAY 11 MAY @ ALLIANZ STADIUM

• Wallaroos v Canada Women – 4.45pm
• Waratahs v Brumbies – 7.30pm

Jordan Parsonage  
Director of Touch Football and Rugby | 9CB Tutor | Rugby Sport Coach 

Snowsports

A huge congratulations to Daisy Thomas (Year 12)  

Daisy won 3 Awards at the Snow Australia Awards Thursday in Melbourne.

• 2024 Junior Athlete of the Year
• Female Athlete of the Year (Freestyle Park & Pipe)
• Junior Athlete of the Year (Freestyle Park & Pipe)

Warren Miller Tour, Arc’teryx Winter Film Tour

Redlands Snowsports have been invited to the Warren Miller tour at a special rate, please reserve your tickets here by 3pm Friday 10 May.

• Movie: Warren Miller Tour, Arc’teryx Winter Film Tour
• Venue: The Orpheum in Cremorne
• Date: Friday, May 17 Time: 8:30 PM
• Tickets: Discounted to $28 Adults (down from $37) awaiting confirmation on concession prices.
• Who: Parents & Students welcome

Upcoming SnowSports Events:

• Thursday 9 May – 6.00pm to 10.00pm – Redlands SnowSports Icebreaker @ Middle Harbour 16 FT Skiff Sailing Club
• Sunday 19 May – 1.00pm to 3.00pm – Second Hand Snowsports Sale
• Friday 5 July to Wednesday 10 July – Development Program @ HCC/ Thredbo
• Thursday 11 July to Saturday 20 July – Racers Camp @ HCC/ Thredbo
• Sunday 14 July – Redlands Cup

Second Hand Snowsports Sale

Reminder:

Discounted Thredbo season passes end on the 14 May. Hurry!

Swimming

Congratulations to our Redlands students, representing at the CIS Secondary Swimming Championships on Monday and Tuesday earlier this week.

• Freja Nixey (Y8)
• Amelie Swann (Y9)
• Holly Smith (Y10)
• Xander Halfen (Y12)
• Olivia Price-Pontifex (Y10)
• Alice Franceschi (Y9)
• Tara Ward (Y9)
• Sasha Gordon (Y7)
• Freja Nixey (Y8)
• Amelie Swann (Y9)
• Holly Smith (Y10)
• Xander Halfen (Y12)

Tennis

We had a great first week of Winter Tennis!

Well done to all the ISA teams who played very well against St Andrew’s Cathedral School on Saturday.

It was an outstanding performance from Redlands ISA 3 (Miles Woodhouse, Regan Vom, Bowen Shiao and Jonathan O’Carrigan) who defeated St Andrew’s 8-0.

The other members of Redlands ISA 3 (Louis Dobson and Anay Mishra Mall) stepped in for Redlands ISA 1 and played extremely well, with Louis Dobson winning his singles, a great effort from a Year 7 playing in Division 1.

Special mention also goes to Redlands ISA 7 who won 5-3 and Redlands ISA 9 who won 7-1 over St Andrew’s Cathedral School.

Well done to all the teams!

Students, parents and visitors enjoyed the new tennis centre, and we are looking forward to hosting all the ISA home matches at Mosman Lawn Tennis Club over the next few weeks.

Good luck to all teams this Saturday!

Water Polo

Competition has begun, a wonderful start for our Intermediate age teams with two strong wins on Monday Night!

Trainer of the week: This season we will name players/trainers of the week throughout the term on Note Day each week. These players demonstrate commitment to the team in training and strong performance in games.

• Opens Girls: Ruby Voice
• Inters Girls: Maddie Dunnet
• Iners Boys: Lukas Radich

Focus for the week

Following our success from Monday night games, we will continue to focus on good comprehension of the game and further refining our ball skills and movement. A key takeaway from the games over the last few days is fitness and movement in the water, especially over the last few quarters. As such, this week will primarily focus on enhancing our fitness and skills in the water, such as practicing defence; ensuring that the body and arms are out of the water when an opposing player is attempting to shoot. Additionally, we will also be working on communication between players when the game is in play in order to build effective teamwork and avoid game confusion.

 A few reminders

• Fixtures have been loaded onto Pulse and student’s calendars.
• Open Water Polo girls, your compulsory 1x Gym session on Tuesdays 3.30-4.30pm.
• Inter teams, to attend the Fitness session, please read the Fitness Center pulse page. Inter team students can select the morning they wish to attend but will need to register their attendance.
• Water polo is a representative sport and as such attendance is compulsory to all training and fixtures. Absences must be logged through Pulse sport absence form. 

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 2024 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

• 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.

Winter 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 2022-24 >> select your sport

Password (redlands2024) 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.

Winter Sport – Key Contacts