Reddam House High School Newsletter Vol 23 Issue 5

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

The Sydney World Pride and Mardi Gras Festival events close this weekend. It has been a time to celebrate inclusivity, acceptance, equality, the work of LGBTQ+ people, education in LGBTQ+ history, and raising awareness of issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community. With that in mind, the Charity Portfolio held a Mufti Day with $500 raised for Minus 18 LGBTQIA+ Youth. This charity tackles the social isolation many students in this community feel by creating spaces where LGBTQIA+ young people belong, are celebrated, and can make friends.

Excerpts from the Reddam School Song sum up our school’s commitment to inclusivity, respect, and acceptance of all people.

“We are free to be ourselves And respect each other equally We share a common dream To be whoever we want to be Independent pride in who we are Unique in who we are Standing proud

This is the Reddam way”

On Wednesday, the Swimming Carnival was again held at the Drummoyne Pool.

The sun shone all day, and the racing was exciting. Congratulations to Darling House on taking out the Carnival with 997 points, followed by Bennelong with 927 in second place, Macquarie in Third with 776, and Piper bringing up the rear with 687.

IN

• Reddam Swimming Championships

• Footloose rehearsal

• Sporting successes

• Careers, Opportunities & more

I thank Phil Kable and the Sports Department for organising and managing this day of fun and camaraderie. All had so much fun.

Congratulations to the following students for being crowned Age Champion or Runner Up in their particular age.

U12s Champions Charlotte Compton

George Negas

U12s Runners Up Ashley Vynokur

Jamie Gor

U13s Champions Micah Shields

Evan Zhu

U13s Runners Up Jacana Symonds

Koby Shandler

U14s Champions Alexandra Fasol

Asher Choi

U14s Runners Up Charlotte Flekser

Sophia Garvin

Aston Lake

U15s Champions

Milly Zeiderman

Justin Zhao

U15s Runners Up Savina Malesevic

Jayden Finucane

U16s Champions Maya Antonir

Matthew Ching

U16s Runners Up Zara Ajaka

James Bradburn

U17s Champion Charlotte Budd

U18s Champion Annabel Woolley

Year 11 and 12 Music students attended the Encore showcase on Monday evening. These performances of the best of the best give the students an idea of what standard for which to strive.

The Year 12 students taking Advanced English attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Richard III by a company called Sport for Jove today. The play is one of their HSC

On Thursday the Music Department organised for our Year 12 students to have a string quartet workshop with members of QuartEd - a String Quartet specialising in performing new compositions. All professional musicians and qualified educators, the players started the day demonstrating string techniques and teaching the students how to write successfully for this type of ensemble. Each student then had the chance to have their own personal session with the group to have their compositional ideas played and workshopped, helping them compose their mandatory pieces as part of the Music 2 HSC course. Having the chance to hear music played by real people is invaluable, and the experience will give these students a real advantage within this course component. Quart-Ed will join us again in Term 2 for another workshop session before producing the final recordings submitted to NESA in September for each student.

Mr. Garratt’s Year 12 Geographers’ trip to Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Forrest left on Thursday. They will study ecosystems at risk, the global and local forces at play, and ecological sustainability. We look forward to their report next week.

Claudia Jones attended the Legal Studies Association presentation on Tuesday evening, where Romy Freund

Excellent news from the Sports Department is that Paloma Nicolas has been selected for the Australian Women's Under 16 Squad. Paloma will be training at the AIS with her teammates. Congratulations, Paloma, what a fantastic achievement.

More Congratulations can be seen over the page for what has been a very successful year so far for our athletes and musicians.

This weekend there are two school camps. The Year 11 students attend a Leadership Camp at Stanwell Tops and the Middle School Drama students attend a Drama Camp at the Collaroy Centre. Ms. Vince and Mr. Montgomery respectively are responsible for organising these wonderful opportunities for our students. More about both in next week’s newsletter.

Have a wonderful weekend and a great week ahead.

Dave Pitcairn

SWIMMING CARNIVAL - WON BY DARLING HOUSE

Joshua Tancred (Y7)

Joshua had a massive weekend on the sports field. On Saturday he ran a 21:15 in the Dolls Point Parkrun and then backed up on Sunday and scored 100 runs for his Easts Division 1 Cricket Team. The ton was scored off 70 balls. We might get him on a flight to India!

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Year 12 Reddam student Frankie Nicklin has been setting the world on fire with her achievements on the cricket pitch. Frankie is currently captaining NSWCIS in the All Schools Tournament and has done a great job guiding her team to victory in the Final against NSWCHS. On top of this she has been awarded the highest honour from CIS at the recent awards evening winning a Blue. Frankie recently made her debut with Australia's Number 1 cricket team, the NSW Breakers and is destined for a very successful future playing cricket.

Reddam House Year 10 Netball Team

Year 10 netball team finished up Runners Up in the Bondi Netball competition. The team has been playing all Summer and have done extremely well only losing one match throughout the season.

Congratulations!!!

Frankie Nicklin (Y12)

Janie (Y7) and Frankie (Y12)

Janie and Frankie both went to Mark Moran Retirement village before last weeks recital to entertain the residents. They were very well received as always.

Another fine example of giving back to the community.

Jasmine Spira (Y11)

Jazz and “Quin Marvel” AKA Peaches came joint 5th place in the point score for the junior event of the NSW state indoor titles after the final day of competition last weekend.

Another fabulous result for this amazing team.

Ryan, who is very passionate about his golf, was part of the New South Wales Golf Club junior squad that won the Golf NSW 2022 Junior Pennants. This is the first time NSWGC has won this very prestigious golfing award and Ryan was amongst those recognised at the awards ceremony held Well done Ryan.

Ryan Wu (Y12)

GIRLS

SPORTING FIXTURES - 4 MARCH 2023

Basketball

Friday 3rd March - Comets | Perry Park | Alexandria - 53

Saturday 4th March PCYC (Marrickville) 531 Illawarra Rd, Marrickville

GRIZZLIES vs MVP Cheetahs 1:30pm Ct 1 MPCYC

U18 MAGIC vs Newtown Greyhounds 6pm MPCYC

Sunday 5th March - Comets | Perry Park | Alexandria - 53 Maddox St

U10 LAKERS vs Newtown Panthers 8:50am Comets Ct 2

BUCKS vs Newtown Power 10:30am Comets Ct 2

U12 RAPTORS vs Sydney HoopStars 10:30am Comets Ct 1

U12 CAVALIERS vs BYE

U12 HORNETS vs Sydney HoopStars Adders 11:20am Comets Ct 1

U14 BULLS vs BYE

BOYS

Saturday 4th March - Comets | Perry Park |

U14 MAVERICKS vs Sydney HoopStars 2:40pm Comets Ct 2 U14 PACERS vs Sydney HoopStars Kingsnakes 1:50pm Comets Ct 1 U14 NUGGETS vs BYE

Cricket

Reddam Rabbits V SSMCJCC Mixed Taipans 8.00am Lower Cooper 1 Reddam Roos V Syd Coastal Mixed Rays 8.00am Lower Cooper 2 Reddam Rhinos V Easts Marlins 3.00pm Lough Park North

Tennis

Touch Football

GIRLS

Reddam 1 v Loreto 3, Queens Park No. 4 (Baronga Avenue), 10:20 am

Reddam 2 v Loreto 5, Queens Park No. 4 (Baronga Avenue), 12:10 pm

Reddam 3 v Schols 4, Queens Park No. 1 (Baronga Avenue), 10:55 am

Reddam 4 v SVC 13, Queens Park No. 14 (Darley Road near playground), 11:35 am

Reddam 5 v Sceggs 14, Reservoir Field No. 4 (Oxford St), 8:35 am

GIRLS

Opens v Barker, Pymble Pool, 8:45am

Reddam 1 v Reddam 2, UNSW Pool 9:15am

Reddam 2 v Reddam 1, UNSW Pool 9:15am

Reddam 3 v KRB, UNSW Pool 10:45am

Reddam 4 v KRB, UNSW Pool 11:15am

BOYS

Reddam 1 (Year 10/11) v Trinity 1, Queens Park No. 7 (adjacent to the Shed Café, Darley Rd), 8:50 am

Reddam 2 (Year 10/11) v Waverley Opens 2, Queens Park No. 6 (adjacent to the Shed Café, Darley Rd), 8:00 am

Reddam 3 (Year 9) v Trinity 1, Queens Park No. 6, adjacent to the Shed Café, Darley Rd), 10:30 am - this round will be a 3 way rotation

Reddam 4 (Year 8) v Trinity 1, Trinity Grammar, 8:50 am. The bus will leave at 7:40 am.

Reddam 5 (Year 7) v Waverley 3, Riverview 1B, 11:10 am. The bus will leave at 10:00am

Water Polo

BOYS

Opens v Shore, Shore Pool 9:30am

16s v St Augustines, Shore Pool 1:10pm

13s v Shore, Shore Pool 10:15am

Primary v Waverley, Scots Pool 9:30am

Basketball

GIRLS

U10 BOOMERS vs Inner City Cupcakes 16 - 24

U12 STORM vs Inner City Flames 18 - 4

U14 TIMBERWOLVES vs Sydney HoopStar Panthers 22 - 21

U14 FLAMES vs Inner City Magic 37 - 4

U16 SPARKS vs Inner City Gems 18 - 40

U16 MYSTICS vs Inner City Jazz 32 - 26

U18 SUNS vs RBSC Rebels 25 - 29

U18 DIAMONDS vs All Blacks 23 - 34

BOYS

U10 LAKERS vs Sydney HoopStars 15 - 9

U12 BUCKS vs Reddam Raptors 41 - 7

U12 RAPTORS vs Reddam Bucks 7 - 41

U12 CAVALIERS vs BYE

U12 HORNETS vs Sydney HoopStars Moccasins 14 - 12

U14 BULLS vs Sydney HoopStars Coyotes 7 - 29

U14 MAVERICKS vs BYE

U14 PACERS vs Inner City Thunder 13 - 21

U14 NUGGETS vs Maccabi Grizzlies 20 - 0

U16 JAZZ vs BYE

U16 WARRIORS vs Maccabi Cavaliers 73 - 29

U16 NETS vs Newtown Hawks 69 - 20

U18 HEAT vs White eagles B 22 - 17

Cricket

Reddam Rabbits 11/117 RJCC Sixers 11/117

Reddam Roos 157 SSMCJCC U10 Mixed Taipans 157

Reddam Rhinos 5/180 RJCC Thunder 3/145

Reddam 21 v Rose Bay Secondary 8

Reddam 1 3(18) v St Pius 2 0(7)

Reddam 2 3(18) v Cammeraygal 3 0(10)

Reddam 3 2(16) v St Pius 16 1 (14)

Reddam 4 0(7) v St Pius 15 3(18)

Netball

GIRLS

Reddam 1 v Kambala 2, 3 - 7

1bn1Reddam 2 v Ascham 4, 3 - 4

Reddam 3 v St Caths 7, 7 - 4

Reddam 4 v Loreto 15, 3 - 3

Reddam 5 v Loreto 16, 0 - 0

GIRLS

Opens v Pymble, 16-0

Reddam 1 v SACS, 4-7

Reddam 2 v SGHS, 4-2

Reddam 3 v KRB, 10-0

Tennis

Reddam 5 1(7) v St Pius 21 2(12)

Reddam 6 1(14) v Cammeraygal 6 2(12)

Reddam 7 1(9) v Cammeraygal 8 2(12)

Reddam 8 2(13) v Cammeraygal 7 1(12)

Touch Football

BOYS

Reddam 1 (Year 10/11) v Waverley 1, 15 - 2

Reddam 2 (Year 10/11) v Riverview 1, 4 - 9

Reddam 3 (Year 9) v Waverley 1, 5 - 3

Reddam 4 (Year 8) v Trinity 1, 5 - 5

Reddam 5 (Year 7) v Waverley 2, 3 - 4

Water Polo

BOYS

Opens v St Augustines, 11-4

16s v Newington, 7-4

13s v Waverley, 6-5

Primary v Scots, 2-10

Our Footloose band met in full for the first time and lifted the roof off Adelaide Hall. These students have been working incredibly hard on performing professional parts and will be an integral part of the staging in Week 9 - information about tickets will be available soon!

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.

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 explains 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

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

Webinars in April

Life of a Marine Scientist | Wed 5 April 4-430pm

Chinese Studies | Wed 5 April 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.

Attention Year 12 - Woollahra Libraries is inviting HSC students to attend their upcoming HSC events at Double Bay Library.

Rowan Kunz from Art of Smart is running two FREE workshops in March.

Early Entry, Scholarships, Cadetships & Co-Op Opportunities | Wednesday 15 March 5.00-6.30pm

Jump start your HSC | Thursday 30 March 5.00-6.30pm

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

Webinars

Western Sydney Careers Expo

1 June What’s new and what’s changed

19 July ACU Entry and pathways

Various dates

Various dates

Study at ACU Series

Talk with Industry Series

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND

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

MONASH UNIVERSITY KEY DATES FOR 2023

7 March Information Evening Melbourne

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4 April Information Evening Peninsula

5 April Information Evening Warrnambool

12-14 April MYSci

General Updates:

Self-guided campus tours

Discover Monash events

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.

LAST FEW SPOTS AVAILABLE

For students new to the team, there is a parent information meeting online on Tuesday March 7th at 7pm.

Parents can register their interest by visiting this link

You will then be sent a code for the meeting

For enquiries, please contact Ms Melanie Pelosi directly via melanie.pelosi@reddamhouse.com.au