Year 12

Cross Country

Last Wednesday, 13 Yr 12 students cheered each other on at the annual ISA Cross Country Carnival as they strode into their most successful record in recent times.

Asha Boswarva, Caitlin Du Plooy, Rebecca Faurby, Zoe Kimber, Lindsay McNeil and Penny Butler built a formidable team, winning the overall Girls shield for the first time in Redlands history. Lindsay and Asha crossed the line almost simultaneously, finishing fourth and fifth, while Rebecca Faurby came seventh out of over 30 competitors. As a result of such an excellent performance, they have all qualified for CIS.

The Senior Boys team, comprising of Alex Ainsworth-Grace, Lachlan Greig, Thomas Latchford, Cody McCartney, Dominic Swift, Will Tobin and Lachlan van der Pluijm came 2nd among all the competitors. In addition, Will Tobin, Lachlan van der Pluijm and Cody McCarney have now progressed to the CIS Cross Country Carnival, to be held on Thursday. Well done, runners! 

Gala Arts

Brava and bravo to all the Yr 12s who participated in Gala Arts last Friday. Another magnificent evening of entertainment displaying a variety of the talents and passions of our boys and girls in different categories. I am sure their high calibre must have given the judges a difficult time to reach their decisions. I would also like to thank all students involved in the Showcase. A huge number of Yr 12s took part despite their many competing commitments, reflecting the warm community spirit of this cohort. All their dedication at rehearsals manifested in a beautiful and energetic final production. Great work by all!

Yr 12 Study Room 

Since last term, two classrooms have been offered exclusively to Yr 12 students for a study space during lunch times. T1 is used for individual silent work, T2 for collaborative study. Students can have lunch while catching up with work, either independently or through peer discussion. From this week, R2.1 will also open for the same purpose on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons from 3.30-5.00pm. An English teacher supervises the room during this period.

We welcome more students to use these spaces in support their ongoing learning and time management. Students are also reminded to maintain the tidiness of the classrooms.   

HSC Syllabus Study Skill Workshop 2 Optimising Your Study Sessions by Ms Rachael Riley 

Student Reflection by Tara Sahagian

I found the session with Ms Riley very interesting and informative. She reminded us that we should have time to sleep and do social activities and study at the same time if we use our time as wisely as we can. As well as this, she reassured everyone and told us that if we have not been getting the best marks for our assignments up to date, we shouldn’t be discouraged because there is so much study and preparation that we can do in between now and our final exams to revise. Some tips for this revision included things that may have been obvious, but certainly I needed to be reminded of, for example:

  • Making sure that you do questions (and asking teachers for feedback for these questions) to test your knowledge and find gaps in knowledge of things you don’t know instead of reminding yourself what you do know already;
  • Effective study doesn’t include summarising the textbook or highlighting;
  • Studying for short periods at a time with breaks will be much more productive than studying for an extremely long time;
  • “Diamonds are created under pressure”.

I walked out of this session feeling really motivated and ready to try new things – whether that is the way I use my breaks, the way I study, and even my perspective towards studying which I really did appreciate and it was so lovely to get her insight on it.

Ms Vanessa Wang
Yr 12 Advisor
vwang@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9813