Year 7

Communication

A reminder that your child’s Tutor is always your first contact point for all general enquiries. Contact details for Tutors can be found on Redlands Pulse. Subject specific questions, including information on dates of tests/assessments, Learning Management Alerts, home learning etc. should be directed to your child’s teacher or Head of Department. Contact Details for HODs can be found here.

Redlands Study Centre

The aim of the Study Centre is to provide students from Yrs 7-12 with the opportunity to receive shoulder-to-shoulder support or assistance in specific disciplines from Secondary School teachers. These sessions are not to be seen as formalised one-on-one tutoring sessions but instead should be seen as opportunities for students to get answers to specific questions or feedback on specific areas of learning. Students who are interested in utilising this support should report and sign in to the Roseby Library as usual and find time to speak to individual subject teachers. More information can be found here.

Maths Support

Students can get help from a Maths teacher or ask an Aluminate student on Wednesday lunchtimes in L1.2 or in the Library every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons until 5.30pm and Monday mornings from 7.30am.

NAPLAN

NAPLAN takes place in Week 3. The NAPLAN tests are designed to assess the skills of Australian students in literacy and numeracy. The specific purposes are:

• to collect data from the population of Yrs 3, 5, 7 and 9 students for reporting to parents/carers and schools for systematic reporting
• to accommodate the assessment of students against national minimum standards.

To participate fully and efficiently each student should bring the following equipment:

• 2B or HB pencils – no mechanical pencils
• An eraser
• A sharpener
• A calculator (for the Numeracy – Calculator allowed test)
• A blue or black pen (for the Writing Task)

Information about the tests for parents and schools is available on the NAPLAN website.

Note: Catch-up tests are permitted Tuesday to Friday.

The Importance of Setting Goals

Since the start of Term 2, Tutors have been meeting with all students reflecting on progress in Term 1 and setting goals for Term 2. Students are always encouraged to set goals. But we don’t always explain why setting goals is important.

Research has shown that people who set goals (and use them effectively) not only perform better but suffer from less stress and anxiety and are happier and more satisfied with life.  

In 1953 a Harvard Uni study showed that 3% of the students graduating that year wrote down their specific career goals. Twenty years later, a team of researchers interviewed the class and found that the 3% who had written down their goals were not only happier but were worth more financially than the other 97% combined.

Here are some more reasons why we encourage students to set goals:

• Setting goals gets them to think about possibilities.
• Goals give them a direction to work towards.
• Goals give them a clear picture of where they want to go.
• Goals help them to push themselves just that little bit more.
• Goals help them have a more fun and fulfilled life.
• Goals can give them motivation and focus.
• Setting goals helps them do all the things they want to do in life!

Students have probably set many goals already without even realising it – not every goal has to be written down but it certainly helps them to stay on track if they do write it out. They can set goals for all the different aspects of your life.

Remember, if students don’t set goals they’ll find that life just sort of ‘happens’ to them rather than them actually deciding what they want out of life then making what they really want happen! So get in the driver’s seat of life and take control with goals this year.

You and your child can learn more about how to achieve academic goals at here by logging in with these details (Username: redlands; Password: 68results) and working through some of the units.

Key Dates

NAPLAN – Tuesday 15 – Thursday 17 May
Gala Arts – Friday 1 June    
Queen’s Birthday – Monday 11 June
Athletics Carnival – Thursday 26 June
Term 2 Concludes – Friday 29 June

Ms Marita Jansons 
Year 7 Advisor
mjansons@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9819