Year 10

Raise Dough: Bake a Difference

A group of enterprising Year 10 students are bringing their Commerce idea to life with the Raise Dough: Bake a Difference fundraiser set for Monday 25 March.

When: Monday 25 March at recess, Fahl Garden, Senior Campus

What: Bake Sale

How to get involved: Drop off your baked goods to the Secondary School staffroom in the morning and enjoy a selection of sweet treats at recess.

Make a SunDay FunDay out of baking together as we get ready for the Easter long weekend. Remember to:

  • Avoid using any nuts or nut products
  • Label any tupperware so it can make its way back to you
  • Label Dairy and Gluten Free options

In Commerce last year the students were given as assortment of challenges from real-world organisations. One of our partners was Raise Foundation. Raise do youth mentoring in schools for at risk 13–15-year olds, mentoring involves matching a trusted and trained adult with a young person over a set period of time. The adults effectively fill the young person’s backpack with a selection of tools and strategies they can go back to time and time again throughout their life. A perennial problem for Raise is securing the funds to train mentors and provide the program to young people in need. It costs $2000 to mentor one young person, the impact of which will be felt over a lifetime.

One of our Year 9 teams pitched the fundraiser, Raise Dough: Bake a Difference. The team at Raise loved it so much they sought the School’s blessing to use the tagline with their corporate sponsors and it has already gone on the raise over $3000 at a single event. Redlands students are now trying their hand at organising and executing their own idea. They have received mentoring from the Head of Marketing and Community at Raise, written their strategy and designed their advertisement maintaining fidelity of the brand identity of Raise.

We are delighted to support Kira Delaney, Isobel Campbell, Sofia Whatmough, Jessica McKeown, Alanah Winder and Lucinda Maher in their endeavours.

 

 

Yr 10 SRC Representatives 

During our Stage 5 Assembly on Tuesday morning the SRC representatives for 2024 were announced. 

Congratulations to Jerry Sun, Marcus Richardson, Yvie Marjoram and Kira Delaney for being nominated as representatives. We look forward to you representing Year 10 this year. 

 

International Women’s Day (IWD) Panel

Thank you to Max Taylor, Olivia Price-Pontifex, Lachie Price-Pontifex, Isobel Campbell, Lucy Maher, Kira Delaney, Sofia Whatmough, Jessica McKeown and Alanah Winder for volunteering to help host the International Women’s Day Breakfast on Monday this week. These students greeted parents and friends in as wonderful, proud ambassadors of the School.

 

The Balmoral Swim is Back!

Learn More

Contact Ms Riley at rriley@redlands.nsw.edu.au for more information. 

Assessments and Sport

A quick reminder about navigating assessments that are due on the same day as Sports Carnivals and Cocurricular Events.

For all students in Years 7 to 10 who are absent due to a sports carnival or cocurricular event and have a take-home assessment that falls on the same day, they are still expected to submit the assessment on time. No deadline extensions will be granted. If the assessment is a formal in class assessment or exam and a student will miss it due to the carnival or cocurricular event, they should inform their teacher at least a week in advance so that the teacher can arrange an alternative day and time for the student to sit the formal assessment or exam.

English Writing Competitions

 There are some exciting opportunities for eager students to flex their writing muscles this term and next with the following writing competitions now open for submissions from students in Yrs 7-12:

We encourage all students to have a go at crafting a piece of writing. Whether it is based on work they have done in their English class or something they have composed out of their own interest, writing a piece that is judged externally is a great way to gain validation for effort and skill.

For more details, please visit the websites above or contact Dr Phoebe Poon (Redlands High Potential Learning Coordinator) at ppoon@redlands.nsw.edu.au

 

NSW School Vaccination Program 2024

Each year NSW Health works in partnership with schools to offer the vaccines recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for adolescents as part of the school vaccination program.

The following vaccine is offered free to Year 10 students at school on Thursday 11 April.

  • Meningococcal ACWY vaccine

The vaccination will only be provided at school if consent has been received.  To provide consent for vaccination online follow this link. 

Please provide consent by Wednesday 10 April to register your child for the clinic.  Students whose consent is not completed before this deadline are to attend the vaccination clinic catch up opportunity on Thursday 7 November.

If you or your child do not have a Medicare card, consent can still be provided by requesting a paper-based consent form directly from the Year Advisor.

To help answer questions you may have regarding providing vaccination and online consent, please visit the NSW Health website.

Mrs Lucienne Willis
Yr 10 Advisor
lwillis@redlands.nsw.edu.au