Year 8

Success at the Swimming Carnival

On Tuesday we travelled out to SOPAC for the annual Swimming Carnival.

After many well fought races, McDouall was able to secure their first swimming carnival victory in eight years.

There was strong participation among Year 8 students and the spirit on display was very pleasing to witness.

Congratulations to a number of students who secured championship placements. These include:

William Thomson 13 Boys Runner-up
Amelie Swann the 14 Girls Champion and Junior Division Champion
Tara Ward the 14 Girls Runner-up
Cameron Petrie 14 Boys Runner-up

Student Planner

As part of focus on self management and organisation for the year we are asking students to ensure that they actively use their student planners each day. These should be used for:

planning for lessons on a weekly basis
recording lesson theme and home learning activities
preplanning and ‘chunking’ of assessment activities, and
keeping dates of upcoming key events.

Over the first few weeks of the term we will be using part of our dedicated academic care time in Tutor to examine why planners are important and how they can be used effectively.

To ensure students are using this as a planning tool we are asking them to get their planner signed by their parent/guardian weekly. This will be counter-signed by their Tutor as well.

Upcoming Events

We have a a number of significant events in the first part of the term which include:

Week 2 – Friday 10 February – Secondary School Portrait Photos
Week 2 – Friday 10 February – Welcome to the Jungle Movie Night
Week 3 – Thursday 16 February – ySafe Online Safety Session
Week 5 – Monday – Friday – Coaching Conversations
Week 6 – Monday – Friday – Yr 8 Camp
Week 8 – Tuesday – Friday – School Musical

Further information about some is these events is below.

Subject Focus – Art

School Camp

Please ensure that you have completed the Operoo profile for your child/ren. If you haven’t received an email, please visit Operoo.com to sign up and create a medical profile for your child/ren.

If you are need some support with the medical form process you can contact medicals@oeg.edu.au and/or Mr Atkins eatkins@redlands.nsw.edu.au

If you child/ren require medications on camp, you will need to complete and return to Mr Atkins a Medical Authority Form located on Pulse HERE. This form will need to be completed prior to departure.

Please contact Mr Atkins for any other questions about camp.

Online Safety Parent Information Session (via Zoom)

Monday 13 February 2023
6pm – 7pm

The parent information session has been developed in consultation with ySafe with an appreciation of the complexities of parenting in the digital age.

The aim is to provide parents with a realistic, practical, and engaging cyber safety education session

Please register using this link.

A link to the session will be emailed to those registered.

Secondary School Individual Portraits and Sibling Photos – Friday 10 February

Secondary School Sibling Photos will take place on 10 February from 7.15 – 8.20am in Redlands Hall. To order Sibling Photos, please click here, enter the password ‘ALLISTER’ and select Siblings Order Form before 8 February. Parents/Carers who have children at both the Junior and Senior Campus and may attend the sibling photo and should accompany their Junior Campus children to school afterwards.

On 10 February Year 7 to 12 students will present to the Redlands Hall in classes to have their portrait photo taken between 8.20am – 12.55pm. If your child is unable to have their portrait taken, or if they have an external appointment scheduled during the school day please inform the Year Advisor.

A catch-up date for missed sibling photos and portraits will be offered on 3 March at 10.10-11.05am in the Learning Hub Level 2, or by appointment with Melba Studios, located in Artarmon.

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. Boys and girls with a hair length touching the collar is to be styled and tied-up neatly so that it is away from eyes, ears and collar. Hair is to be tied back with navy and hair coloured accessories. No hair dye, mullet style haircuts, 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.

Our Standard Portrait and Year Group Package will be automatically billed to your school account and posted directly to your primary contact address following the Year Group photos taken on 7 June. If you do not wish to receive a standard package, please click here to opt out before 10 February.

The Standard Package will cost $40 and consist of:

Year Group Photograph 20 x 30cm
Portrait packages containing 7 portraits:

1 – 15 x 20cm

2 – 10 x 15cm

1 – 10 x 7cm

1 – 7.5 x 5cm

2 – 5 x 3.5cm

Online access to a high-resolution digital portrait download

If you have any questions, alterations or additional orders, please contact Melba Studios directly on (02) 9438 4566 or email sales@melbastudios.com.au.

A Message from Yr 11 Service students for the Yr 7 & Yr 8 Move Night:

We are organising a Movie Night as a fundraiser on Friday February 10 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm. All proceeds will go to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The WWF strives to conserve nature through protecting our valuable environment and aims to reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth. The movie that will be shown is Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. It is classified PG. The ticket price is $5 and Yr 11 students will be selling tickets at lunchtimes this week (Week 2) by cash and EFTPOS. Additionally, there will be snacks available for purchase at lunchtime through a bake sale in Liggins Quad.

If your child stays to watch the movie, please ensure they are able to return home via public transport or get picked up at 5:30pm as the campus will be closed at that time. We would love for your child to attend what will be an exciting and enjoyable evening for them while contributing to an excellent cause.

For any further questions regarding this event, please contact the Yr 11 Advisor, Ms Ynson, aynson@redlands.nsw.edu.au.

Thank you very much.

Mr Tobias Horan
Yr 8 Advisor
9968 9872
thoran@redlands.nsw.edu.au