Year 11

Respectful Relationships Workshops and Presentations  

Redlands has a robust PDHPE and student wellbeing relationships and sexuality curriculum. To support our school curriculum all students, continue to be involved in a series of workshops and presentations on the topic of respectful relationships. The sex-positivity approach isn’t about encouraging people to go out and have sex, it seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality, promoting the recognition of sexuality (in the countless forms of expression) as a natural and healthy part of the human experience and emphasising the importance of personal sovereignty, safer sex practices, and consensual sex (free from violence or coercion). It covers every aspect of sexual identity including gender expression, orientation, relationship to the body relationship-style choice, and reproductive rights. Last year, Year 11 were involved in our inaugural Relationships Day workshops. This year, to support continued learning, In Your Skin presented updated research to help students actively consider their relationship values and expectations, and to develop a healthy and realistic sense of self and ‘other’.   

To encourage further conversation at home, please find additional resources:

Balmoral Burn Teams Relay

From Mr Nick Walker:

I am proud to share the outstanding efforts of our Redlands teams at last Sunday’s Balmoral Burn Teams Relay. Each student who competed brought incredible spirit, camaraderie, and outstanding support for one another as they took on the challenging 420m ascent up Awaba Street, all for a great cause, dedicated to raising funds for the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, which supports children’s hospitals and health services across Australia. Our students’ participation today exemplifies their commitment to service and community.

Here are the results of their efforts:

Senior Boys

Team 1- Freddie Yates, Isaac Brooks, Hamish Campbell, Conor Petersen – 6th place (Isaac Brooks was the first up the hill and had the quickest individual run overall)

Team 2 – Hugo Jones, Charles Hargrave, Maxwell Perry, Cam Simpson – 8th place

Team 3 – Tobe Cornelius, Rory Howe, Hiro Phillips, Daniel Kopper – 10th place

Team 4 – Ayden Shaw, Ernie Hart, Jet Gwilliam, Harrison Meagher – 14th place

Senior Girls

Team 1 – Olivia Law, Amber Kusano, Immy Howard – 9th place (The team would have placed 2nd overall but were one team member down. Amber Kusano had to run back down the hill and do a second lap back up but didn’t quite make it down in time, and then had to put on another bib to run back up again!)

Team 2 – Amynta Field, Jemima Hugman, Annabelle Hwang, Sarah Zeppel – 10th place

Team 3 – Lauren Dower, Sela Tea, Piper Bradley, Clara Blackstock – 16th place

Furthermore, our Year 11 students organised a Bake Sale on Friday, raising over $1000 to contribute to this worthy cause.

Year 11 IB Theatre

The collaborative project is an IB task where the students work with a selected theorist and practitioners or practice. This included participating in workshops in class and with external providers, such as Jacques Lecoq and levels of tension, Complite, Frantic assembly and Laban. Students are given a range of starting stimulus and work to collaboratively craft a performance that reflects their Theatre Makers Intentions, these are also crafted and devised by the group and all members of the group must then play a specific IB role for each section – they must all be creators and performers, then they have the option of designing, eg, lighting, multimedia, costume, set, sound/soundscapes and/or directing a section each. Following the performance, they submit a written report to the IB about how they managed to impact the audience (hence the talk-back) and discuss how and to what extent they reached their Theatre Maker’s intentions and how they could grow as performers and theatre makers.

ISA XC Carnival

Congratulations to all Yr 11 students who competed in the ISA XC Carnival at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre this week.

Below is a list of students who qualified for the CIS XC Carnival which will be held again at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre next Thursday.

Max Perry – 17 years boys 6k – 11th place
Annabelle Hwang – 17 years girls 4k – 10th place
Alex Symons – 18 years girls 6k – 10th place.

A big thank you to Mr Walker, Mr Ellis, Ms Yamamoto, Ms Carroll and Ms Stafford for all their assistance at the ISA XC carnival.

Congratulations to Sophie Yu (Year 10) for winning the regional final round of the Plain English Speaking Award on 28th May at the Arts Unit in Lewisham. Earlier this month, Sophie presented her speech at the North Sydney local finals held at Cammeraygal High School and progressed through each subsequent round. She represented Redlands in this prestigious public speaking competition organised by the Arts Unit of the NSW Department of Education and has now successfully qualified for the upcoming state semi-finals. We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the coaches and teachers for their constant support throughout her journey. We wish Sophie all the best for the State Semi-Finals!

Year 11 Da Vinci Decathlon – Full Results

The Top 16 schools in each subject of the Da Vinci Decathlon have now been published, and provide the full picture of how our Year 11s achieved a Bronze medal for coming 3rd overall in the State. The following subject placings were achieved:

  • Code Breaking 2nd
  • Ideation 2nd
  • Cartography 3rd
  • Mathematics 5th
  • Creative Producers 8th
  • English 9th
  • Engineering 11th
  • Legacy 13th

Congratulations again to Hugo, Jesse, Lachlan, Krishna, Katherine, Liam, Emma, and Sophie for these fantastic results!

Ms Lisa Vale
Yr 11 Advisor
9968 9837
lvale@redlands.nsw.edu.au