Year 10

Awards

This week in the Whole School Assembly, effort acknowledgement awards were given to the students across all Year Groups who had shown a significant improvement in their effort grades in Semester 2 2019. It was wonderful to see Nikola Barac, Emily Gray, Jordyn Iles, Isabella Lipman, Shaun Patrick, Holly Richards, Dasha Sychova and Remy Wilson receive congratulations from Principal, Mr Stephen Webber during the assembly.

In addition, in the assembly, Katie Wightwick received the fortnightly Sports Award for overall contribution to Redlands Sport, in her role with Touch Football. This is a new award that the 2020 Sports Captains have introduced to recognise special achievements and behaviour during sport.

Swimming Carnival

Congratulations to the following students for their wonderful results in the Swimming Carnival last week:

Amelie Heard – 5^th in the 15 yr old girls
Jack Cantwell – 4^th in the 15 yr old boys
Lizzie Holtheuer – 1^st in 16yr old girls and Intermediate Champion
Sienna Blake – 3^rd in 16yr old girls
Liv Vigneault – 5^th in 16yr old girls
Erik Scott – 1^st in 16yr old boys and Intermediate Champion
Sam Virtue – 2^nd in 16yr old boys
Aaron Drake – 3^rd in 16yr old boys
James Robinson – 5^th in 16yr old boys
Kirill Shatilov – 1^st in 17yr old boys and Senior Champion

Appointments

Wherever possible, the school asks parents to make any necessary appointments for their child outside of school hours, so as to reduce the amount of time that students are missing in the classroom. We understand that sometimes this is not always possible, but appreciate your efforts in trying to minimise the amount of disruption to learning.

Assessments

The 2020 Assessment Handbook and Assessment Calendar are both available on Redlands Pulse and our iLearn Pastoral Care Page. The Assessment Handbook provides students with an overview of all policies particular to the year group along with subject overviews. The Assessment Calendar provides students with a timeline of assessment throughout the year.

School Photos

The following photographs will be taken by Advanced Life on Wednesday 11 March on the Senior Campus. Students are required to wear blazers.

• Sibling photos in the Redlands Hall from 7.15 – 8.20am.  Junior School siblings are welcome to have their photo taken on 11 March if they were unable to attend the Junior Campus sibling photo day last week.
• Cocurricular Dance and Debating during recess and lunch.

Order envelopes are available from the Secondary School Office and orders for photography packages can also be placed securely online at www.advancedlife.com.au using our School Order Code: NWL 4NR ETY. Portrait and group package orders are due by photography day. Should you have any queries concerning school photographs or online ordering, please direct them to enquiries@advancedlife.com.au.

Youth Exchange Program Brewarrina

An opportunity has been presented from Warringah Council for Redlands students to apply to participate in the Youth Exchange program to Brewarrina. Please be aware that applications close on 1 March.

A Sister Cities agreement between Brewarrina Shire and Warringah Councils was signed in July 2000. Brewarrina, or ‘Bre’ as it is known to locals, is a remote community located in north-west NSW, 800kms from Sydney, and has 1800 residents. It has a large indigenous population, is home to the World Heritage listed Fish Traps and has a wonderful history of both indigenous and white settlement.

The Youth Exchange consists of six (three girls and three boys) young people from the Northern Beaches spending a week in Brewarrina in the April school holidays. Some of the activities undertaken in previous years include: visiting Lightning Ridge; learning about Aboriginal language and culture; seeing the 40,000 year old Aboriginal Fish Traps and the old Mission Station; fishing; learning to make and throw boomerangs; visiting Aboriginal art sites; attending a local rugby league or union game; Mt Oxley; swimming at hot bore baths; spending the day at a sheep station; and experiencing the outback in a unique way not available to many people.

All transport, accommodation and activities are provided free. The only cost to participants is incidental/spending money. Two Council representatives lead the group. Click here for more information.

Cross Country Training

Cross Country training will begin on Friday 13 March (Week 7) at 6.20am at Primrose Oval. The training session will run for an hour. Students will need to be dropped off to Primrose Oval for the start of the session and after the session, coaches will walk the students back up to the Senior Campus at 7.20am to allow time for the students to get changed to make it to lessons for Period 1. The training is open to any athlete who would like to train for the School Cross Country Carnival which is on Thursday 2 April.

If your child is selected for the Redlands ISA Cross Country team after the School Cross Country Carnival, there will be training sessions which will run every Friday morning until Friday 5 June. 

If you have any questions in regards to the training sessions, please email the Cross Country Sports Administrator Kate Seebohm or the Head Coach of Middle Distance, Nick Walker.

Pastoral Care Program

This week students are learning about emotional awareness and self-regulation. They are discovering that resilient people are able to identify their emotional experiences and control their emotional responses. They are comfortable with their feelings and express a broad array of emotions. Although they still may feel sad or scared, these feelings do not prevent them from coping with the situation and moving forward.

Social Awareness Program

Over the next couple of weeks, two leaders in each Tutor Group will lead each group as they select an organisation whose primary focus is helping young people who are homeless, and they will get to know this organisation in detail.

Ms Rebecca Mountain
Yr 10 Advisor
rmountain@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9908 6462