Year 8

Effort Grades

This year Redlands has introduced an award to recognise students who demonstrated significant improvement in their Approaches to Learning based on 2019 Semester 1 and Semester 2 Effort Grades. Congratulations to the recipients of this award: William Algar, Alexander Arnold, Jasmine Black, Hannah Garde, Rafferty Heard, Yumi Kontezny, Gianmarco Pradel and Aarbaz Singh.

School Photographs

The following photographs will be taken by Advanced Life on Wednesday 11 March on the Senior Campus. Students are required to wear blazers.

Sibling photos in the Redlands Hall from 7.15 – 8.20am. Junior School siblings are welcome to have their photo taken on 11 March if they were unable to attend the Junior Campus sibling photo day last week.
Cocurricular Dance and Debating during recess and lunch.

Order envelopes are available from the Secondary School Office and orders for photography packages can also be placed securely online at www.advancedlife.com.au using our School Order Code: NWL 4NR ETY. Portrait and group package orders are due by photography day. Should you have any queries concerning school photographs or online ordering, please direct them to enquiries@advancedlife.com.au.

Swimming Carnival

Congratulations to all swimmers who competed in the Swimming Carnival last week. A special mention goes out to our students who placed in the top five competitors in their age group: Hamish Campbell, Grace Durrant, Alexander Halfen, Rafferty Heard, Charlotte Hugman, Connor Ikin, Chloe Jennings, Julius Keller, Jack Keogh, Eva Osborn, Ruby Voyce, Johnny Wang and Annie Zhang. Yr 8 Roseby is also congratulated for scoring the most points throughout the day!

Assessments

The 2020 Assessment Handbook and Assessment Calendar are both available on Redlands Pulse and our iLearn Pastoral Care Page. The Assessment Handbook provides students with an overview of all policies particular to the year group along with subject overviews. The Assessment Calendar provides students with a timeline of assessment throughout the year.

Cross Country Training

Cross Country training will begin on Friday 13 March (Week 7) at 6.20am at Primrose Oval. The training session will run for an hour. Students will need to be dropped off to Primrose Oval for the start of the session and after the session, coaches will walk the students back up to the Senior Campus at 7.20am to allow time for the students to get changed to make it to lessons for Period 1. The training is open to any athlete who would like to train for the School Cross Country Carnival which is on Thursday 2 April.

If your child is selected for the Redlands ISA Cross Country team after the School Cross Country Carnival, there will be training sessions which will run every Friday morning until Friday 5 June.

If you have any questions in regards to the training sessions, please email the Cross Country Sports Administrator Kate Seebohm or the Head Coach of Middle Distance, Nick Walker.

Positive and Negative Risk Taking

In Pastoral Care this week, students begin their first of five lessons focused on Positive and Negative Risk Taking. These five lessons will support the introduction they had last year in PDHPE and link to Yr 8 PDHPE topics in Term 3. One common risk students may find challenging is knowing how to ask for help at school. See the module Asking for Help in Dr Prue Salter’s Study Skills Handbook for additional resources and support materials you can utilise at home with your Yr 8 student.

Learn more at www.studyskillshandbook.com.au. Our school’s subscription details are – Username: redlands; Password: 68results

Yr 8 Pastoral Program

This term, students will focus on developing their understanding of self-management and responsible decision making through setting clear goals, creating an evolving term planner to be added to and adapted throughout the term and by studying positive and negative risk-taking. Outcomes for this term include understanding the connections between emotions and choices, identifying safe and unsafe risks, understanding how choices/impulses can impact personal wellbeing and resilience and to be introduced to some of the consequences involved in these decisions.

Ms Alissa Ynson
Yr 8 Advisor
9968 9863
aynson@redlands.nsw.edu.au