Reddam House High School Newsletter Vol 23 Issue 4

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Friday 24th February 2023

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Dear Parents and Caregivers,

It’s hard to believe that we are heading into the last week of summer. What a week it has been on all fronts.

The Stag, the student newspaper, by students for students distributed the 2nd edition of 2023 this week and I include the link for those interested.

bled from all over the World and Bathurst was a blaze of colours with athletes training in their team strips around the town. Australia finished in third place behind Kenya and Ethiopia.

Our involvement was racing in the Schools Classic on Friday. Schools came from all over Australia for this event and our runners did exceptionally well. Tomi Reynaldo finished 31st in the 16s Boys with Jarad Serman in 30th. Sophia Garvin ran an amazing race finishing 10th in the 16s girls where she was two years younger than some of her opponents. Aston Lake ran a great race where he was in the leading group for the full four kilometres. He finished up in 4th place and was the second placed runner from NSW.

A brilliant trip for our athletes where they performed

The Sports Department have been busy this week and Mr Kable reported that:

“Last Thursday we had the pleasure of being involved in the World Cross Country Championships at Bathurst. Racing was on the inside area of the Mount Panorama Racing Track. A beautiful course that was testing with plenty of hills along with sand and mud. Teams assem-

Bankstown to play in the Open CDSSA Basketball Championships. A great day of basketball was had by all with our Girls making the Semi Finals and our Boys finishing up as Runners Up. Congratulations to the following students for their selection into the CDSSA Team to play at the AICES Championships.

Girls

Rose McCall

Jasmine Rintoul

Reserves - Coco Batu-Sampson, Zoe Catzel

Boys

Harry Boye-Moller

Nicholas Alexiou

Reserves - Daniel Kelly, Sebastian Canturi

Brad Palmer, our retired Head of Mathematics and Football Manager, has been selected as the coach for the Australian Tibetan Youth Soccer side. This community service initiative by Brad will see these players represent Australia at the GCM Gold Cup in India. This tournament is for Tibetan communities living in exile and aims to foster unity between Tibetan young people exiled throughout the world. There is a flyer about getting involved on page 15 of this newsletter

Please visit https://vimeo.com/789629658

and it was wonderful to see our students lead a standing ovation to show their support and adoration of the cast and crew. An exciting start to a brilliant season of theatre ahead

The Welcome Recital the first of our Music evenings for the year was hosted by Luca Del Monaco and Zoe Topper of the Year 9 and Year 12 Judiciary respectively. This fantastic evening of music performance was notable for the excellence of all the performers and the diversity of the programme. Congratulations to the 32 students who had pieces of the standard required so early in the year.

The final Parent Information Evenings were held on Tuesday and Thursday for Year 7 and Year 9 parents respectively. Tuesday night’s storm did not dampen the enthusiasm of the Year 7 parents and both evenings had the energy that has characterised all these sessions.

The Year Coordinators, teachers, and I have really enjoyed meeting the parents of the students in our care, some for the first time in three years. Thank you to all the parents who attended and made the evenings such worthwhile and enjoyable ones.

On Monday evening our Years 9 to 12 Theatre Club students attended their first production of the season, Hubris and Humiliation, written by Lewis Treston. Over 70 students attended Sydney Theatre Company, they were a captivated audience for this satirical, love story celebrating gender diversity and family unity in a hilarious and colourful reimagining inspired by Pride and Prejudice. The production was part of this year’s World Pride celebrations,

The House Swimming Carnival takes place next Wednesday, 1st March. Mr Kable has sent parents and students an email with the expectations that we have of them on the day. It is compulsory for Years 7, 8, and 9 and swimmers from Years 10, 11, and 12 may get involved if they want to represent the school at the CDSSA Championships.

The Y10 students had the privilege of hearing the life story of Kath Koschel and how and why she started the Kindness Factory. The message was simple, be kind to yourself and to others. There was not a dry eye in the audience as her story and message resonated with everyone. Her book can be purchased by using the following link:

An important part of the HSC process for the Year 12 students is the Study Buddy workshop today.

More images can be viewed on pages 4 and 5.

“What surviving on the kindness of strangers taught me about perspective, connection and happiness.” By Kath Koschel

Students from the HSC Class of 2022 return to the school and offer tips and strategies that had worked for them as individuals and collectively as a cohort. Their passion to see their successors succeed was heart warming and very much part of their success last year. Have a wonderful last weekend of summer and a great week ahead.

CONGRATULATIONS

Arabella Reitz—Year 12

Arabella had a busy weekend at the Kangaroo Valley Agricultural Show last weekend, winning a range of prizes:

1st prize for dog that looks most like its owner!

2nd prize for the Best kept dog; Smallest dog; Novice Hack with her horse Mosrai; Best rider under 17; Her sunflowers and Her plate of assorted biscuits

3rd prize for: Best girl Rider Hack over 16 hands (Mosrai’s height).

Well done Arabella, ticking many boxes.

Dave Pitcairn

SPORTING FIXTURES - 25 FEBRUARY 2023

Basketball

U16 JAZZ vs BYE

U16 WARRIORS vs Maccabi Cavaliers Ct 4 4:20pm

U16 NETS vs Newtown Hawks Ct 3 Perry 5:10pm

U18 HEAT vs White eagles B Ct 4 5:10pm

PCYC (Marrickville) 531 Illawarra Rd, Marrickville

Cricket

Reddam Rabbits V RJCC Sixers 8.00am Lower Cooper 2

Reddam Roos V SSMCJCC U10 Mixed Taipans 8.00am Lower Cooper 1

Reddam Rhinos V RJCC Thunder 3.00pm Lough Park North

Netball

Tuesday 28th February

Reddam v Rose Bay Secondary Multi Court No.3, 5.15pm

Reddam 1 v St Pius, Neutral Bay Lawn Tennis Club 10am

Reddam 2 v Cammeraygal, Roseville Park 10am

Reddam 3 v St Pius, Neutral Bay Lawn Tennis Club 10am

Reddam 4 v St Pius, Talus Street Courts 10am

Tennis

Reddam 5 v Bye

Reddam 6 v Cammeraygal, Roseville Park 8am

Reddam 7 v Cammeraygal, Neutral Bay Lawn Tennis Club 8am

Reddam 8 v Cammeraygal, Roseville Park 8am

Touch Football

GIRLS

Reddam 1 v Kambala 2, Queens Park No. 2 (Baronga Avenue), 10:20 am

Reddam 2 v Ascham 4, Queens Park No. 2 (Baronga Avenue), 12:10 pm

Reddam 3 v St Caths 7, Queens Park No. 1 (Baronga Avenue), 10:55 am

Reddam 4 v Loreto 15, Queens Park No. 14 (Darley Road near playground), 11:35 am

Reddam 5 v Loreto 16, Reservoir Field No. 2 (Oxford St), 9:10 am

GIRLS

Opens v Pymble, Pymble Pool, 9:15am

Reddam 1 v SACS, UNSW Pool 9:15am

Reddam 2 v SGHS, UNSW Pool 10:00am

Reddam 3 v KRB, UNSW Pool 10:45am

Reddam 4 v KRB, UNSW Pool 11:15am

BOYS

Reddam 1 (Year 10/11) v Waverley 1, Queens Park No. 7

(adjacent to the Shed Café, Darley Rd), 8:50 am

Reddam 2 (Year 10/11) v Riverview 1, Queens Park No. 7 (adjacent to the Shed Café, Darley Rd), 8:00 am

Reddam 3 (Year 9) v Waverley 1, Queens Park No. 6, adjacent to the Shed Café, Darley Rd), 10:30 am

Reddam 4 (Year 8) v Trinity 1, Trinity Grammar, 8:00 am. The bus will leave at 7:00 am.

Reddam 5 (Year 7) v Waverley 2, Riverview 1B, 10:20 am. The bus will leave at 9:10am

Water Polo

BOYS

Opens v St Augustines, Warringah Pool 12:50pm

16s v Newington, Newington Pool 11:10am

13s v Waverley, CranbrookPool 11:00am

Primary v St Augustines, Scots Pool 8:30am

SPORTS RESULTS - 18 FEBRUARY 2023

Basketball

GIRLS

U10 Boomers vs Inner City Angels 5 - 38

U12 STORM vs Inner City Flames 6 - 20

U14 TIMBERWOLVES vs BYE

U14 FLAMES vs All Blacks 5 - 22

U16 SPARKS vs Be real 20 - 66

U16 MYSTICS vs All Blacks 6 - 50

U18 SUNS vs SGHS Marshmallow 24 - 6

U18 DIAMONDS vs CYS 21 - 31

BOYS

U10 LAKERS vs Sydney HoopStars Copperheads 6 - 10

U12 BUCKS vs Reddam Hornets 17 - 6

U12 RAPTORS vs St Spyridon College 5 - 23

Reddam Rabbits 5/85 RJCC Crushers 7/92

Reddam Roos 139 RJCC Strikers 128

Reddam v Clovely Clovers 31 - 8

Reddam 1 v Redlands 2

Reddam 2 1 v St Pius 2

Reddam 3 2 v Redlands 1

Reddam 4 0 v St Pius 3

GIRLS

Reddam 1 v KRB 3, 3 - 7

Reddam 2 v Kambala 3, 3 - 4

Reddam 3 v Ascham 14, 7 - 4

Reddam 4 v Ascham 15, 3 - 3

Reddam 5 v KRB 16, 4 - 7

GIRLS

Opens v Brigidine, 12-0

Reddam 1 v SGHS, 3-7

Reddam 2 v KRB, 3-6

Reddam 3 v Reddam 4, 6-4

Reddam 4 v Reddam 3, 4-6

U12 CAVALIERS vs Inner City Rebels 24 - 28

U12 HORNETS vs Reddam Bucks 6 - 17

U14 BULLS vs KHY Astronauts 17 - 36

U14 MAVERICKS vs Inner City Celtics 34 - 51

U14 PACERS vs MPB 23 - 14

U14 NUGGETS vs Sydney HoopStars Wolves 10 - 23

U16 JAZZ vs Matto Magic 13 - 32

U16 WARRIORS vs Inner City Mustangs 54 - 26

U16 NETS vs BYE

U18 HEAT vs Big Dream 51 - 11

U16 ROCKETS vs Newtown Force 4 - 32

U16 THUNDER vs Inner City Cyclones 15 - 49

U18 GRIZZLIES vs Maccabi Mavericks 42 - 48

U18 MAGIC vs Reggae Rockets 57 - 49

Cricket

Reddam Rhinos 173 Easts Sharks 115

Netball

Tennis

Reddam 5 0 v St Pius 3

Reddam 6 3 v St Pius 0

Reddam 7 .5 v St Pius 2.5

Reddam 8 2 v Cammeraygal 1

Touch Football

BOYS

Reddam 1 (Year 10/11) v Riverview 1, 10 - 2

Reddam 2 (Year 10/11) v Trinity 1, 9 - 0

Reddam 3 (Year 9) v Riverview 1, 5 - 2, 1 - 4

Reddam 4 (Year 8) v Waverley 1, 3 - 14

Reddam 5 (Year 7) v Waverley 1, 5 - 3

Water Polo

BOYS

Opens v Joeys, 4-4

16s v Knox, 3-10

13s v Joeys, 7-7

Primary v Knox, 1-9

Intermediate Surfing Crew

Reddam Surfing continues to grow under the Leadership of Rob Bruns. We are blessed to have the quality coaches we have and our students get to experience the thrills of surfing with their mates. Sometimes we don't always get the waves we desire so the crew set about having fun on the beach with the local life guards.

CAREERS NEWS

Year 12- Please make an appointment with Ms Jones for any careers advice.

ATTENTION YEAR 11&12- The University of Sydney is running a series of webinars that may have useful information for you. If interested visit here

Volunteering opportunities- New Ventures Worldwide offer opportunities for volunteering post the HSC. If interested you can watch this video and go to an information evening. Find out more about the service in this Overview Video

We’re running two online Info Sessions for Australian students to learn more about New Ventures Worldwide, how our placements work, and ask us any questions.

Info Session – Tuesday 21st February 2023, 7pm AEST

Info Session – Thursday 23rd February 2023, 7pm AEST

>> CLICK HERE TO REGISTER <<

ATTENTION PARENT OF YEARS 10,11 & 12-An introduction to myfuture (for parents and carers)

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 1:00pm – 2:00pm

This webinar will be an introduction/refresher to the myfuture career information service. The presenter will demonstrate how the platform can be a useful tool in career and transition planning, highlighting resources that are most relevant to your child/ren. This will include reference to myfuture’s psychometric career interest test (My career profile), the occupation and course information, videos, pathway infographics, and resources mapped to the Australian Curriculum Work Studies substrands. This webinar aims to provide attendees with confidence to support their child/ren with their career exploration. Register here.

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY

New UG Nutrition units from 2023

The Bachelor of Science and Master of Nutrition and Dietetics will be offering two new subjects as part of the undergraduate program from 2023: –FMHU2001 Mythbusting food and health

(Start from S1, 2023) You will develop foundational knowledge in nutrition science, sources of nutrients and energy in the major food groups, and links between foods, dietary patterns and health. This is an elective subject with no requisites, so students studying other degrees can also enrol.

NTDT3002 Evidence-based practice in nutrition

(Start from S2, 2023) You will develop skills to enable you to practice as a nutritionist including nutrition and health promotion, measurement of diets and nutrition, and an ability to critically appraise the medical and scientific literature to ensure lifelong learning in evidencebased nutrition.

Eddie Woo explores Economics at Sydney

In a series of ‘In Conversation’ interviews Eddie Woo ex-

plains why you should study Economics at the University of Sydney, including answering: – What careers can I pursue if I do the Bachelor of Economics? – How many majors can I undertake, and what are my options?

Are there any industry opportunities available as an Economics student?

Pathways to Global Literacy

You’re curious about how the world works, keen on global career opportunities and a particular part of the world resonates with you. Sounds like you? Area Studies may just be for you! Learn more about how you can unlock the gateway to the world from our Asian, European and Latin American Studies experts! Watch now on YouTube.

Webinars in March

Project Management | Wed 1 March 4-430pm

Putin, History, and the Ukraine War | Wed 1 March 5530pm

Pathways to studying Law | Wed 8 March 4-430pm

Secondary Teacher | Wed 8 March 5-530pm

Bachelor of Commerce | Wed 15 March 4-5pm

Health Scientist | Wed 22 March 4-430pm

The Digital History of Human Rights| Wed 22 March 5530pm

Bachelor of Advanced Computing | Wed 29 March 4430pm

Interaction Design | Wed 29 March 5.530pm

Professional Cadetships Australia provides the opportunity for Year 12 students to apply for a cadetship whilst also studying a degree at university. They partner with UBS, Barrenjoey Capital Partners and the Macquarie Group for a range of cadetships.

Applications open on 6 March . For more information visit their website at www.businesscadetships.com.au

UNE- REDDAM HOUSE students are invited to participate in the University of New England’s 2024 Early Entry program. Applications are open now, the process is free, easy to complete and completely online.

Year 12 for further information see the email sent to you by Ms Jones during this week.

SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

MySydney Entry & Scholarship Scheme

The E12 Early Offer and Scholarship Scheme is being discontinued as the University has introduced MySydney. Similarly to E12, MySydney provides entry at a reduced ATAR, yet a more generous scholarship of $8500 per year to students residing in a low socioeconomic area*. MySydney does not require a written application and eligible students will be identified automatically via UAC.

*Residing at the time of UAC application in an area listed in the bottom 25% of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Socio-Economic Index for Areas (SEIFA), Index of Education and Occupation.

Scholarships

The decision was made to discontinue the Sydney Scholars Award. With such a large volume of applications each year, far outweighing the number of Awards available to students, it was decided it was not fair for students to be spending so much time on their applications as such a crucial time of year.

In preparation for the change, the Chancellor’s Award was recently expanded to include students who received a 99.90 ATAR (previously awarded to 99.95 only). This cohort accounted for a large number of the Sydney Scholars Awards historically given to students. Preliminary 2023 offer and enrolment numbers also show that more students who achieved an ATAR of 95.00+ received the University’s new MySydney Scholarship, than those who received the Sydney Scholars Award. There continues to be many academic merit scholarships available at a faculty level which we encourage students to apply for. The scholarships search tool will help students discover the range of scholarships that they may be eligible for.

May 1 Co-op Application opens

May 3 Law Admissions Test Information Evening

May 11&23 Year 10 Info Evening: Subject Selection

May 17 On time UCAT ANZ Applications close (Medicine)

June 13&15 Year 12 Info Evening: Your Journey to UNSW

July most UNSW Scholarships open

August EAPL Adjustment Factor Scheme Appli cations Open

September 2 UNSW Open Day

September 30 UAC Early Bird Preferences close UNSW Medicine Application Portal close UNSW Scholarships Applications close

October 11 HSC Written exams begin

November 30 EAPL applications close

December UNSW Info Week

UAC- 2024 ADMISSIONS

Applications for the current Year 12 group will open on 5 April. UAC will email all NSW and ACT students their UAC PIN on the same day. Students from other states will use their date of birth as their PIN but will be unable to apply until later in the year when we have received student data from our interstate partners.

Applications for our Access schemes will also open on the 5 April.

This year's UAC Guide is set to be delivered to schools early in Term 2, followed by Steps to Uni for Year 10 Students and the Scaling Report for the 2022 HSC.

Schools Recommendation Scheme

UNSW KEY DATES FOR 2023

Mark your calendars – we have published this year’s key dates, including a busy calendar of events to support students.

We will advise as soon as event registration is open for the following events.

March 14 Medicine Information Evening

April 18-20 Year 10 & 11 On Campus Experience Days

There are no changes to the SRS process this year. However, the University of Sydney E12 and UNSW Gateway schemes will not be part of SRS in 2023. I am sure you will receive information about these schemes very soon, if you haven't already.

Educational Access Scheme

There are several changes to EAS this year:

The six-month rule has been removed. Applications will be assessed for disadvantages that have occurred for any length of time up until 30 September of the year they complete Year 12.

Disadvantage codes F01K and F01S, which allowed students to claim financial disadvantage based on COVID19 government payments, have been removed.

There is a new SEIFA disadvantage code, AG02, which works in the same way as AG01 but draws on the Australian Bureau of Statistics Index of Education and Occupation instead of the Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage. The day after they submit their application, students identified as meeting the criteria for either of these disadvantages will be notified that UAC has automatically created an EAS application for them.

The student's document cover sheet will include a checklist to help them understand what they need to provide.

The Educational Impact Statement will require schools to answer fewer questions, making it a quicker and easier process for you.

UAC - will also host another online Year 12 Conference. Last year, 3,500 students and parents logged in to watch, making it the biggest UAC Digital event to date. When: 28 April @ 6pm. Registrations will open soon and details will be announced when available.

One-on-one consultations

Indigenous student support

Monash explorer

Monash Guarantee and SEAS

Disability Support Services

Peer Mentoring Monash Business School

Primary Teaching

Virtual World Engineering

ACU KEY DATES FOR 2023

Various dates Explore ACU:NSW Campuses

1-3 June HSC Careers Expo

22-24 June Western Sydney Careers Expo

Webinars

1 June What’s new and what’s changed

19 July ACU Entry and pathways

Various dates Study at ACU Series

Various dates Talk with Industry Series

MONASH UNIVERSITY KEY DATES FOR 2023

7 March Information Evening Melbourne

29 March Discover Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Science Discover Medicine

4 April Information Evening Peninsula

5 April Information Evening Warrnambool

12-14 April MYSci

General Updates:

Self-guided campus tours

Discover Monash events

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND

Students are invited to visit the University of New England for their annual Open Day on Friday 5 May 2023.

UNE's Open Day is a free event for REDDAM HOUSE students to visit the beautiful campus and experience for themselves why they are the only public university in Australia to have received five stars for Overall Experience 17 years running.

The day will give students a taste of university life, with the opportunity to talk with academic staff, current students and fellow school groups whilst exploring the campus, academic and residential facilities. They will also host lunch with networking opportunities available for school career advisors and teachers on the day.