Secondary Sport

The Return

It is wonderful to welcome back students to campus this week. With the return of On-Campus Learning for all students, we will simultaneously be beginning modified representative sport training throughout this week. To ensure the safety of all students and Sports staff, our return to Sport will be using a range of measures and conditions as set out by Australian Institute of Sport’s Framework for Rebooting Sport in a COVID-19 Environment as well as guidelines stipulated from other state and national sporting organisations. Redlands Pulse contains the most up to date version of the Sports timetable for Week 5 and Saturday 30 May.

Physical Distancing Measures

Sport training will be modified to allow for physical distancing of coaches and students.
Year Groups and teams will be split across certain parts of venues to allow for safe distances between small groups of students (eg. 10 Football players).
Any drills or activities with person to person contact or collision (eg. tackling) will not be allowed.
The training schedule has been set out to allow for a spread of Year Groups and ages across given time periods to avoid large amounts of students in one venue. We ask that students arrive and depart training venues promptly to reduce the congregation of students at venues.
Parents are not able to spectate at any sport training. If you are dropping off a student, you must do so and depart the venue.

Hygiene

Hand sanitiser and disinfectant wash will be available at all training venues. Students will sanitise their hands before and after their session and sports equipment will be disinfected after each session.
Students must bring their own water bottle and any personal hygiene items for during and after their training (e.g. towel).
Where possible students must bring their own sport equipment when applicable (eg. Tennis racquets and Hockey sticks).
Students will be asked to remain in their PE/Sport uniforms on the days they have trainings to limit the volume of students using changeroom facilities.

Temperature Checks

If a student or staff member is sick, they should not come to school. Students with a fever, or who show other symptoms such as coughing, shortness of breath, a sore throat or fatigue should stay at home and get tested for COVID-19. Where possible students should take their temperature at home before arriving at a training; however, all students will continue to have temperature checks when they arrive on campus or trainings, including on Saturdays.

Student Attendance

All students are expected to attend the scheduled sport sessions as part of their representative sport commitment, with the exception of Waterpolo which is not able to begin training at this time.
If a student does not have a scheduled training on Thursday afternoon, they can depart the campus at 2.30pm.
All non-representative sport is cancelled until a time when the service providers and venues are open for our students. Students who are enrolled in a non-representative sport can depart the School at 2.30pm on Thursday.

Safety at this time is paramount and our Sports staff will be working hard to ensure that all students can return to sport safely whilst managing their physical, mental, social and emotional wellbeing.

We thank you in advance for your support and cooperation whilst we navigate the return to Sport and pivot our programs back to face to face coaching.

Athletics

We will be holding some Athletics (running only) training on Friday afternoon on the Junior School Oval from 3.30-5.00pm and will have a gradual return to running. If you are interested in joining this session please email Mr Ellis.

Football

We are looking forward to hosting Redlands Football on Saturday. The Redlands Rhino has the timings allocated for the teams. A reminder for parents that you are unable to stay and watch these sessions, please drop your child/ren off and return at the allocated pick up time. We have left times between sessions to allow for less congestion at the sporting fields, these have changed from the original schedule please ensure you look over this.

Hockey

It was fantastic to have our Senior students back training on Tuesday afternoon and we look forward to seeing the Juniors back training on Thursday morning. All students will have a session on Saturday at Redlands House Courts, please check the Redlands Rhino on Redlands Pulse for the session details. A reminder to all students that they will need the following equipment for the Hockey season: Hockey stick, shin pads and a mouth guard. Attendance at Hockey sessions is compulsory to meet representative Sport requirements and to meet the criteria in order to be eligible for pockets/awards. Any students who do not have Sport on Thursday afternoon will be dismissed from school at 2.25pm.

Netball

Due to the continued closure of our non-rep providers, there will be no non-rep sport until further notice. Non-rep Sports students will be dismissed from school at 2.25pm on Thursday afternoon. Upon the opening of our external providers, we will resume non-rep Sport where possible.

Rugby

Please be aware that the Rugby trainings this weeked have been changed to the times and field locations for all age groups.

Undercroft Area
9.00-10.00am / Under 13s
10.00-11.00am / Under 14s
11.00am-12.00pm / Under 15s
12.00-1.00pm / Opens

Junior School Oval
1.30-3:00pm / Opens and Under 16s

These times have been corrected and are able to be seen on Redlands Pulse and Redlands Rhino notifications.

All students are required to attend these trainings and will need to bring their own water bottle and towel for the training. For all trainings in the Undercroft, students must wear trainers and for the Junior School Oval, Rugby boots are permitted as long as they are not metal studs.

Tennis

Welcome back to on-court Tennis this week. Well done to all Tennis students who completed the Tennis Challenge last week. Congratulations to Sebastian Dobson for completing the baseline movement challenge in a speedy 23 seconds. The following students are also to be congratulated for their speed this week: Ellyce Evans-Beard, Samuel Bourne, Chanel Wang and Samantha Wightwick. Students should be completing this week’s challenge along with attending their scheduled on-court training session. Please make sure you know where and when you are training. Bring your own racquet, water bottle and medications as required.

Tennis Training Schedule – Week 5

Tuesday Morning Training

Students are to be dropped at the venue and will be walked back to school by a Redlands staff member.

Thursday Training

Students training on Thursday morning are to be dropped at the venue and will be walked back to school by a Redlands staff member.
Students training on Thursday afternoon will be walked to the venue only by a Redlands staff member

*All students who are training on Thursday afternoon will either need to be collected from Cammeray Tennis Courts at 4.00pm OR will need to be given permission to make their own way home. Please email Eliza Peirce permission. Students will not be walked back to School.

Saturday Training

Students are to be dropped off and collected as close to their start and finish time as possible. Students at Cammeray are to enter through the main gate and will exit through the back gate. Parents are asked to not enter the venue.
Students are to wear their Redlands PE/Sport uniform or white Tennis polo, Redlands tracksuit or fleece and appropriate footwear.

Injury and Illness – Training sessions are compulsory. If your son or daughter is unwell or injured and unable to make it please email Eliza Peirce before their allocated training session.

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.” Brian O’Driscoll – Irish Rugby legend (133 caps)

Mr Tom Kindred
Head of Secondary School Sport
sports@redlands.nsw.edu.au

All Sports contacts can be found on Redlands Pulse.