Year 8

Parent Presentation

Technology Addiction and Sleep – Wednesday 14 August 6.00-7.30pm

Good sleep is crucial to health and wellbeing. The use of digital devices, especially before bedtime, can have a major impact on sleep quality. Child psychiatrist Dr Philip Tam and sleep expert Lisa Maltman will discuss how to help your child create good sleep habits and avoid the pitfalls of too much technology. Dr Philip Tam is an award-winning child psychiatrist, researcher and pioneer in internet-related psychological disorders and video-game addictions. He will examine how to address these often-challenging problems in young people. Lisa Maltman is the founder of The Sleep Connection, established to meet the growing need to educate students, teachers and parents in schools on the importance of sleep health, and works closely with the Woolcock Medical Institute in Sydney, a body world-renowned in the area of sleep research. We are pleased to have Dr Philip Tam and Lisa Maltman present on these important topics on Wednesday 14 August from 6.00-7.30pm in Redlands Hall. All Secondary School parents are invited to attend. No RSVP is necessary.

Pastoral Care – Resilience

In Pastoral Care, students are currently focusing on emotional awareness and self-regulation as an essential skill in building resilience. Emotional awareness and self-regulation is the ability to identify emotional experiences and to control emotional responses to external events. This will help young people to know:

• being resilient is not about keeping things inside, but expressing how they feel and moving forward
• expressing and understanding their own emotions is a key ingredient to resilience
• recording how they feel in different situations can assist in keeping a check on your emotions and assist in developing the skills on how to move forward.

Summer Sport Registration

Students are required to compete their Summer Sport registration on iLearn. If your child is yet to do so, please make this a priority. Every student must complete the iLearn registration form. Details were sent to student emails via the Sports Department and are available on our Pastoral Care iLearn Page under Announcements. 

Parent Teacher Interviews

We hope that you and your child found the Parent Teacher Interviews a valuable experience in assisting learning. Should subject specific questions arise, please contact Subject teachers or Subject Coordinators.

A Night to Delight 

Well done to the many Yr 8 students who performed at A Night to Delight last Friday. Students have been praised for their energy, eagerness and focus. Feedback has been glowing with Mr Holden (Head of Languages) sharing that ‘Yr 8 did themselves proud.’ Well done, Yr 8! Thank you to all who attended and supported this event.

Key Dates for Students

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