Year 7
School Photographs Tomorrow Friday 4 March
Yr 7 to 12 students will be accompanied by their Year Advisors to Redlands Hall for portrait photos after 8.20am. If your child is unable to have their portrait taken on 4 March Please inform your Year Advisor. A catch-up date for missed portraits will be offered on 18 March at school, or by appointment with Melba Studios, located in Artarmon.
Secondary School Sibling Photos will take place on 4 March from 7.15am–8.20am in Redlands Hall. To order Sibling Photos, please click here, enter the password ‘ALLISTER’ and select Siblings Order Form before 26 February.
Parents/Carers who have children in the Junior and Senior Campus and are attending the sibling photo on 4 March are requested to wait for their children outside the Gerard Street gate until after the photo should they want to accompany their Junior Campus children to school afterwards.
All students are required to be wearing their full school uniform, including blazers. Boys must be clean shaven with hair that has been cut so that it is away from eyes, ears and collar. Girls with hair touching the collar should tie it back with navy accessories (elastics, ribbon, scrunchies). No hair dye, make-up or nail polish is permitted. No jewellery is to be worn other than one pair of plain gold or silver studs in ear lobes.
If you have any questions, alterations or additional orders, please contact Melba Studios directly on (02) 9438 4566 or email sales@melbastudios.com.au.
Yr 7 Camp – Monday 7–11 March
A letter detailing camp departure information was sent to parents yesterday. Please refer to this letter for specifics regarding student RAT testing, medications, and important departure information. We will be leaving from the Senior Campus on Monday morning, students should arrive at 6am and enter through the Gerard St gate. Please be advised that parents are not permitted onsite.
Yr 7 Meet and Greet
Monday 14 March is the Yr 7 Parent Meet and Greet will be held on the Fahl Garden from 5-6.30pm. Yr 7 parents, we would love you to come and join us for an evening of introductions and conversation. The purpose of the evening is to enable our Yr 7 Parents and Carers to meet our Teachers, Tutors and Year Advisors in an informal setting so you can begin to establish those connections that we see as so important in developing a productive partnership between home and school. It is also a wonderful opportunity to meet other Yr 7 parents. Light refreshments will be provided.
Supporting your Child’s Transition into High School
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Yr 7 Vaccinations 2022
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.
In 2022 the following vaccines will be offered for Yr 7 students:
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine 2-doses at least 6 months apart
Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine Single dose
Parent Information Kits that include an information sheet, consent form and privacy statement will be sent home to parents/guardians. To consent to the vaccination of their child, parents/guardians are advised to:
• read all the information provided
• complete the consent form, including signing their name next to the vaccine/s they would like their child to receive
• return the completed consent form to their child’s school.
Parents please ensure;
• your child eats breakfast on the day of the school vaccination clinic
• your child does not attend school with any symptoms of Covid
Absent students
Please note that, to improve vaccination completion, students will be opportunistically offered catch-up vaccination for any missed doses. Any catch-up vaccination will be done on the same day as Year 7 and 10 clinics. They do not need to go to their GP for the missed vaccine.
Parents/guardians who later on wish to withdraw their consent after they have handed in the consent form can do so by writing to the school Principal or phoning the school. The Procedure for Withdrawal of Consent is available on the NSW Health website at www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/.
A Record of Vaccination will be provided to each student vaccinated at each clinic as a physical card. Details about vaccinations given at school will also be uploaded to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) to support complete vaccination histories. Parents can obtain this through the myGov website or the Express Plus Medicare Mobile app. (Anyone aged 14 years or older has to get their own statement.) https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/immunisation/getting-vaccinated/check-immunisation-history
The dates for vaccination the clinics are:
Visit 1 – Wednesday 6 April 2022 – Year 7 HPV dose 1
Visit 2 – Thursday 26 May- 2022 catch up opportunity for Year 7 HPV dose 1
Visit 3 – Thursday 3 November 2022 – Year 7 HPV dose 2 & dTpa
Ms Sarah Matthews
Yr 7 Advisor
smatthews@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9908 6494