Year 7
Return to School
We are incredibly excited about seeing Yr 7 next week. However, it would be remiss to acknowledge that every student will face some level of challenge when returning to school. The physical school environment demands students to again sit still within the classroom, remain on task and adapt to a new and highly structured daily schedule again. It also requires students to separate from their parents and interact in person with their peers once more.
Guidelines have been further developed that provide school staff, students and parents with a clear reference point of how Redlands is ensuring a safe, clean and secure environment. Redlands will continue to implement appropriate social distancing measures proportionate to health advice.
On return to school days, we will continue to emphasise to Yr 7 the need to implement good hygiene practices, including:
- wash hands frequently with soap and water before and after eating and after going to the toilet
- cover your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze
- avoid touching your face
- limit physical contact when greeting people
- limit physical contact in the playground.
- staggered break times to avoid classes mixing
Effort Tracking
This week, students have continued to go through their Approaches to Learning reports from the end of Term 1. Students have met with their Tutors to reflect on the data, to target specific subjects and to set new goals as they begin Term 2. We have been incredibly proud of the effort grades Yr 7 students have achieved thus far. Their hard work, persistence and dedication to achieve course outcomes has been exceptional.
Yr 7 Vaccinations
The Yr 7 vaccinations have been postponed to Term 3. We will keep you informed once we have a new date.
Service
Exciting Service initiatives including a Camp In tomorrow night, can be found on the Service and Social Engagement article in this week’s Note Day.
Resources – Parent and Carers Toolkit
To support parents and carers, the Department of Education has created an ‘essentials’ toolkit packed with self-care tips and handy lists in the areas of parenting books, apps, podcasts, websites and self-care tips. These resources aim to support you and your child’s mental and emotional wellbeing during this period of uncertainty and change.
Study Skills – Prue Salter
Our pastoral focus during remote learning has continued to focus on refining remote learning skills, self-care when working remotely, and most importantly the social connectedness and resilience through Tutor Group activities. We have been really pleased with the positive feedback we have received from students, staff and parents.
Given the challenges faced last term, it is now time to help students begin to re-focus, assess and adjust as needed, their approach to their learning with tips and techniques from the study skills expert, Dr Prue Salter.
As we will not be able to run the Yr 7 Study Skills evening this year, we have arranged for you to be able to access a filmed version online until 1 June.
Ideally it is best that you watch these videos together with your child, just like you would if you attended the evening in person. The study skills seminar has been broken down into bite sized chunks so if you do not have time to do it all in one go, you can work through the session at your own pace. You can also go back and watch any of the videos during the four week period. The video page will prompt you to download the workbooks for the session and will show you at the end where you can then access all the slides from the session that are shown in the video. The link to access the evening is here; Username: redlands
Password: 68results.
Ms Lisa Vale
Yr 7 Advisor
9968 9837
lvale@redlands.nsw.edu.au