Year 9

ISA Swimming Championships

Congratulations to the following Yr 9 students who represented Redlands at the ISA Swimming Championships:

  • Lachlan Green
  • Charles Hargraves
  • Annabelle Hwang

ICT

This week Yr 9 were lucky enough to have a presentation from ySafe.

ySafe was founded in response to growing concerns amongst parents and school communities regarding children’s online activities, and the increasing prominence of technology-related developmental and behavioural issues. ySafe’s approach has also been one of a pro-technology ethos, uniquely focussing on the social and emotional components of cyber safety and online behaviours. The particular focus for Yr 9 was around Cyberbullying and Online Conflict, Nudes and the Law, Respectful Relationships and Digital Footprint and Online Reputation.

Key take aways for students were as follows:

  • Clean up social media posts and profiles
  • Add positive content to your digital footprint
  • Consider other people’s perceptions before posting
  • Look yourself up online every now and then
  • Set person accounts to private
  • Unfollow damaging people/pages.

APP + GAME REVIEWS – #VPN – Wi-Fi Hotspot Security

This is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) app, and it’s most problematic feature is that it will allow your child to get around any parental controls or filters you have in place on their device. Via a VPN, children will be able to directly access unfiltered, unrestricted internet. VPNs work by creating a barrier between the user and any outside traffic, so safeguarding tools like Family Zone and other parental safety controls will not be able to carry out their important functions. Even a school’s safe network can be circumvented via a VPN. We recommend that you remove this from your child’s device promptly.

Parent Resources:

https://redlands.onlinesafetyhub.com.au/app-review/38984-56

NAPLAN 2022

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is a point in time assessment of literacy and numeracy skills. Students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 participate in the annual tests in writing, reading, conventions of language (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy. All NSW schools will sit NAPLAN online in 2022.

Our School will be participating in NAPLAN between 10 and 13 May 2022.

In preparation for NAPLAN, our Secondary School Year 7 and Year 9 students will also be participating in practice tests on Tuesday 22 March. The practice test is a trial run and key preparation activity for NAPLAN in May. It is not an assessment of student ability, and the tests will not be marked.

Excessive preparation for NAPLAN is not recommended. Students can use the public demonstration site (https://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/public-demonstration-site) to familiarise themselves with the types of questions and tools available in NAPLAN.

If you have any questions about NAPLAN, please contact the Dean of Studies (Yrs 7-10), Ms Anna-Marie Rolon.

Key Dates

Term 1 – Monday 31 January – Friday 8 April
Term 2 – Wednesday 27 April – Friday 24 June
Term 3 – Tuesday 19 July – Thursday 22 September
Term 4 – Monday 10 October – Wednesday 7 December

Ms Lisa Vale
Yr 9 Advisor
9968 9837
lvale@redlands.nsw.edu.au