Year 8

Athletics Carnival

If yet to do so, please familiarise yourself with the Athletics Carnival information letter emailed home via the Secondary School Office last week. This is an important event in the school calendar and attendance is compulsory. A medical certificate is required for all absences. Your prompt attention to granting permission via Redlands Pulse is appreciated.

Parent Reading

• Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore – A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage behavior
• The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults by Frances E. Jensen, MD with Amy Ellis Nutt
  A New York Times Bestseller – Renowned neurologist Dr. Frances E. Jensen offers a revolutionary look at the brains of teenagers, dispelling myths and offering practical advice for teens, parents and teachers.

Paul Dillon

For those who could attend, we hope you found Paul Dillon’s presentation insightful and practical. Paul has a number of resources available you may find useful:

• Doing Drugs With Paul Dillon Paul answers frequently asked questions that he is asked at adult presentations and also makes commentary on news stories of the day, attempting to sort out fact from fiction whenever possible. It allows him the opportunity to provide a little more depth of information than he is usually able to give in a one sentence media grab! He has also used the blog to post items like Opinion Pieces that he has written for newspapers and websites.
• The Real Deal On Drugs was developed to provide school-based young people with the opportunity to ask Paul questions on all things ‘alcohol and other drugs’. The idea for this blog came about due to the increasing number of email queries he receives from young people who have attended his talks across the country. They can now post their question directly onto the blog, with the answers now being made available to a much wider audience, many of whom are facing similar type of issues.
• DARTA Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia (DARTA) aims to provide education and training expertise as well as high quality research assistance on a wide range of alcohol and other drug issues.

Japan Trip 2020

Where history and tradition combine with modern technology and economic achievement, join the trip of a lifetime to Japan. Students will be completely immersed in Japanese language and culture from 11 – 23 April 2020. Details are:

• 12 nights/13 days
• Students currently in Yrs 8, 9, 10 and 11 and Yr 7 students who will be studying Japanese in 2020 as their chosen language
• Visit Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Okinawa including a Japanese school
• Minimum 15 students are required for this trip to go ahead

We look forward to welcoming you to the information evening on Monday 24 June at 5.00pm in L1.4. Alternatively, please complete this survey.

For more information, contact Ms Abe or Mr Okawa. 

Information Evening

Key Dates

A Night to Delight

Ms Marita Jansons 
Yr 8 Advisor
mjansons@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9819