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Dear Parents and Caregivers,

This week has been a week of external assessments for many students. The annual NAPLAN

test for Years 7 and Year 9 have kept those students busy on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs-

day. The Year 10 students wrote the Allwell test on Wednesday. We know that our students

have taken these tests very seriously and that the results will be of use to their teachers to bet-

ter understand their students.

This week also sees the second week of Parent-Student-Teacher meetings. Year 8 and Year 10

students and their parents had their opportunity to get feedback on their progress to date.

These evenings have been well attended and the value of the evening is incredible. The part-

nership between teacher, student and parent is so important and these evenings serve to

strengthen those relationships.

This Sunday we have our Open Day from 10:00am to 2:00pm and many students will be per-

forming, involved in various activities or taking prospective parents around the school. Please

pop in, invite friends and come and get an insight into the life of the school and what we be-

lieve sets us apart. The canteen will be open so your Sunday coffee could be enjoyed on the

rooftop or listening to live music courtesy of the various ensembles. The program of the day’s

activities is included later in this newsletter.

Congratulations to our Theatre Sports team who competed in the first heat of the interschool

challenge. On the evening they were brilliant, winning the heat and will proceed to the next

round.

Other individual achievements include:

Alisa Tyshchenko participated in the NSW Fencing Championship winning the State

Championship for Under 15 Girl's Foil. Incredible Alisa, and it is great to have some new

stars in our school fencing team.

@REDDAM—The Reddam House High School Newsletter Volume 16, Issue 13, Friday 13 May 2016

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Romy Glass took part in the auditions for X Factor last Friday. She made it through all rounds

and now waits to hear back from the X Factor team. We congratulate her on her bravery and

for putting herself forward for this grueling competition.

Valentina Ivanov was away for over one month playing tennis overseas. Her results are incred-

ible coming second at the 2nd Qatar ITF Junior Open and then competing as the Number 1

seed of the New Zealand Junior Fed Cup team. They competed against 15 other countries in

New Delhi, to qualify for the World Finals. They scored a good win over China to make the top

four of the Asia-Oceania region and this qualifies them as one of sixteen teams to take part in

the ITF Junior Fed Cup World Finals in Budapest, Hungary later this year. The team also beat

Malaysia and Kazakhstan.

Bianca Cruz is playing in the Tennis World Twilight Tournament this weekend at Sydney Olym-

pic Park. Good luck Bianca.

Have a great week,

Dave Pitcairn


BASKETBALL Girls

10R (Div1) (Jaimee) V Magic 15 - 10

12R Div 2 ( Jaimee) V Wild Cats 10 - 22

14 E Div 2 (Lee) V Maccabi 38 - 19

18 R Div 2 (Jaimee) V Bye

16E Div 3 (Jaimee) V Fire 37 - 2

Boys

10 R Div 1 ( Marcel) V Newtown 16 - 15

12 R Div 1 (Marcel) V Lakers 32 - 48

12E Div 2 (Marcel) V Cobras 13 - 55

12 D Div 3 (Marcel) V Bye

14R Div 2 High School (Henry and Luke) V Inner

City 23 - 53

14 E Div 2 Primary (Henry and Luke) V All Blacks 38

- 24

14D Div 3 High School (Henry and Luke) V Red-

dam M 14 - 11

14M Div 3 Primary ( Henry and Luke) V Reddam D

11 - 14

16 R Div 2 ( Lee) V Stars 45 - 18

16E Div 3 ( Lee) V Bye

18R Div 1 ( Lee) V Raiders 24 - 58

18E Div 3 Year 10 Boys V CYS 16 - 28

RUGBY

16A V Barker 44 - 0

14A V Riverview 19 - 7

SOCCER

18 Girls V Maroubra 0 - 5

16 Girls V Maroubra 1- 1

14 Girls V Pagewood

Open Boys V Barker College 4 - 1

Year 10 Boys V Sydney Grammar School 1 - 4

Year 9 Boys V Sydney Grammar School 0 - 4

Year 8 Boys V St Patricks College 7 - 0

Year 7 Boys V Sydney Grammar School 1- 2

12s Boys V Maroubra 0 - 2

11Rs Boys V Queens Park 1 - 3

11Es Boys V Dunbar 5 - 2

10s Boys V Maroubra 2 - 2

9s Boys V Maccabi 0 - 3

NETBALL

Reddam 1 ( Intermediate) V Rose Bay 12 - 332

Reddam 2 (15 Years) V Bronte 17 - 30

Reddam 3 (14 Years) V Bye

Reddam 4 (14 Years ) V St Catherines 4 - 14

Reddam 5 (13 Years) V St Catherines 16 - 0

Reddam 6 (13 Years) V Coogee 3 -12

Reddam 7 (12 Years ) V Kincopal 21 - 7

Reddam 8 (10 Years) V Maccabi 1 - 21

Reddam 9 (Moddies) V Mascot 6 - 7

TOUCH FOOTBALL

Reddam V Minis 6 - 1

SPORTING RESULTS 7TH MAY


BASKETBALL—SEMI FINALS Girls

10R (Div1) (Jaimee) V Inner City 9.00am Alexandria

Basketball Stadium Saturday

12R Div 2 ( Jaimee) V Inner City 11.30am Alexandria

Basketball Stadium Saturday

14 E Div 2 (Lee) V Maccabi 1.30pm Marrickville Basket-

ball Stadium Saturday.

18 R Div 2 (Jaimee) V CYS Alexandria Basketball Stadi-

um Friday. The bus will leave the sports office at Wool-

lahra at 3.00pm

16E Div 3 (Jaimee) V Maccabi 4.20pm Alexandria Bas-

ketball Stadium Friday. The bus will leave the sports

office at Woollahra at 3.00pm

Boys

10 R Div 1 ( Marcel) V Newtown 9.50am Alexandria

Basketball Stadium Saturday.

12E Div 2 (Marcel) V All Blacks 1.10pm Alexandria Bas-

ketball Stadium Saturday.

12 D Div 3 (Marcel) V Newtown 10.40am Alexandria

Basketball Stadium Saturday.

14 E Div 2 Primary (Henry and Luke) V Titans 2.00pm

Alexandria Basketball Stadium Saturday.

16E Div 3 ( Lee) V Rabbitohs 4.00pm Marrickville Basket-

ball Stadium Saturday.

Please check sydneybasketball.com.au to ensure

there have not been any late changes to the draw.

RUGBY 16A V St Josephs College, Parade Ground No.6

( where we train) Centennial Park 12.00 noon Satur-

day.

14A V Riverview, Riverview 4A 10.00am Saturday.

The bus will leave Woollahra at 8.30am

TOUCH FOOTBALL

Reddam V Kambala 9.00am Queens Park Sunday

SOCCER 18 Girls V Queens Park, Waverley Park No.2 3.00pm

Sunday

16 Girls V Maccabi, Christison Park No. 1, 10.30am Sun-

day

14 Girls V Queens Park, Queens Park 01 2.00pm Sun-

day

Open Boys V Waverley College, Queens Park No.8,

1.00pm Saturday

Year 10 Boys V Riverview, Riverview 2A, 9.00am. The

bus will leave Woollahra 7.30am

Year 9 Boys V Riverview , Parade Ground No.6 (where

we train) 9.00am Saturday

Year 8 Boys V St Patricks College, Parade Ground No.6

(where we train) Centennial Park 10.00am Saturday

Year 7 Boys V Oakhill College, Parade Ground No.6

(where we train) 11.00am Saturday

12s Boys V Maroubra, Coral Sea No.2 12.00 noon Sat-

urday

11Rs Boys V Maroubra, Coral Sea 1B, 1.00pm Saturday

11Es Boys V Queens Park, Queens Park 10A, 1.00pm

Saturday

10s Boys V Maroubra, Coral Sea 1B, 12.00 noon Satur-

day

9s Boys V Maroubra, Coral Sea 1A, 11.00am Saturday

NETBALL

Reddam 1 Bye

Reddam 2 (15 Years) V St Catherines Heffron Netball

Courts No. 22, 9.45am Saturday


Courts No. 5, 12.24pm Saturday

Reddam 4 (14 Years ) V Mascot Heffron Netball Courts

No. 2, 12.24pm Saturday

Reddam 5 (13 Years) V Marrickville Heffron Netball




Reddam 7 (12 Years ) V Mascot Heffron Netball Courts

No. 6, 11.06am Saturday

Reddam 8 (10 Years) V Marrickville Heffron Netball


Reddam 9 (Moddies) V Saints Heffron Netball Courts

No. 33, 9.48am Saturday

SPORTING FIXTURES 14TH MAY

REDDAM HOUSE FOOTBALL ENGALND TOUR

As mentioned in the previous newsletter, the inaugural Reddam House Football Tour of England is

scheduled for December this year. It is a 15 day tour which will start in Manchester and finishes in

London. Dave Naylor, director of Complete Sports Solutions, will be giving a presentation to parents

and players on Monday 23rd May at 7pm in A1 at the Bondi campus. He will take you through the

itinerary and answer all of the queries concerning the proposed tour.

Brad Palmer


REDDAM HOUSE FOOTBALL MATCH REPORT 07/05/16

First XI versus Barker Centennial Park Won 6-0

Putting aside the disappointment of losing the midweek knockout competition without conceding

a goal, the boys turned on the style against Barker. The Birdman was in full flight doing his best Tim-

my Cahill impersonation seemingly scoring at will. I thought I was going to have to get the shoes

and socks off at one stage to keep tally of the score such was the dominance of our play. He was

ably supported by Mighty Max and Ethan playing beautiful balls in behind the opposition fullbacks

for our speedy wingers Seth and Liam to run onto. In fact, the combinations and fluency of the ball

movement was very impressive and this game was never in doubt. Carlos in goals was rarely trou-

bled and his distribution from the cage was the starting point for many of our raids.

So all in all, an impressive start to the season and hopefully some more difficult challenges lie

ahead.

Year 10 versus SGS Reg Bartley Reserve Lost 4-1

Football can be a cruel lover. We should have had this game wrapped up at half time such was

our dominance but instead found ourselves down 0-2 at oranges.

We started like a house on fire with some terrific passing rushes down the left hand side of the pitch

with Luke W, Luke Angelou, Brock and Piripi to the fore. Eric was making an excellent target man in

the best Viduka style and this looked like it was going to be a walkover. Only poor finishing kept us

scoreless. SGS got a goal against the run of play and our boys seemed to lose a little faith. As so

happens when the heads go down, the opposition got another and we had some work to do. Luc

Bennett McNeill pulled one back for us after being played in by Eric and that seemed to lift the

team as we again dominated but our finishing was still wayward. A late goal to SGS gave a final

score line that didn’t really reflect the game.

This team has a lot of potential and better days are ahead as the boys become more familiar with

our system and style of play.

Brad Palmer

Technical Director of Football


The Year 9 IST Students undertook online training in HTML5 and CSS3 for creating web pages. This

was done on the Grok Learning Site which included multiple schools across Australia. They were

enrolled in the “Intermediate” study path and were up against Year 9’s and Year 10’s from schools

like Luther College, Queenwood School For Girls, The Hills Grammar School, Abbotsleigh, Knox

Grammar School and many others.

Three of our students stayed on the leader board throughout the four week course and were

awarded perfect scores of 240/240 for the work on the course.

All three faired exceptionally well in the final peer-assessed competition with 7 of Reddam’s Year 9

students coming in the top 50 most liked sites. Some of these are displayed below:

YEAR 9 IST

Manu El-Natan Masson Joshua Stotski

Daniil Kytikov Joshua Stotski

Tayla Simons


Well done to all our participating students, I look forward to a promising year from a strong IST

group!

Andrea Huxham

YEAR 9 IST CONTINUED

Last Friday, 6th March, Reddam hosted Sydney Gram-

mar School. The topic was media and popular culture.

While there were some excellent debates, it was over-

all a tough night for Reddam. However, our Year 9

team continued its extraordinary and unprecedented

run, having now won 6/6 debates. This Friday Reddam

will host SCEGGS at home. This will be our last competi-

tion of the regular season before we move into the fi-

nal rounds. Please feel free to come along and sup-

port our teams. Debates for Years 7-9 begin at 6:30pm,

and for Years 10-12 at 7:30pm. Looking forward to see-

ing you there! From L to R the students are Gili, Rachael, Kai and Aaron

DEBATING

Marianne Clifford


On Tuesday night our Intermediate Theatre Sports team played their heat in the Theatre Sports

Challenge at St Andrew’s Cathedral School taking out first place against 7 other schools!

The team played 4 rounds with 1 minute, 2 minute, 3 minute games and open scenes. They outdid

themselves with their 3 minute scene which was the story of Hansel and Gretel in the genre of Film

Noir. The scene brought the house down and earned them the only full score of the night.

This takes them to the semi-finals which we will be sure to notify you of when the date is an-

nounced.

Congratulations to the team and their coach Daniel Cordeaux!

Amanda Crompton

The Intermediate Team: Zoe Gross, Joanna Li, Kai Mashimo, Sam lane, Roy Wallace-Cant and

coach Daniel Cordeaux

THEATRE SPORTS


Theatre Club was in for a treat on Monday night at the Opera House Drama Theatre with a hilari-

ous night of Noel Coward’s Hay Fever. The 28 students and 4 teachers who attended were exhila-

rated by the stand out performances of the cast, as well as a dynamic and original set design; al-

most a character in itself. The 1920’s comedy is a fast -paced whirlwind of the hilarious behavior of

the very unorthodox Bliss family and their invited guests.

Following the performance, the lead actress, Heather Mitchell, shared with me the cast’s appreci-

ation of the Reddam students who were seated in the front 2 rows, and how thoroughly engaged

and receptive they were.

Here is what some of the students had to say about the production:

One of the most humorous, yet highly sophisticated productions I have seen. Definitely a must see!

Brigit Shkolnik

Hay Fever was a hilarious and gripping play that gave us Drama students an insight into the hard

work that goes into a production of such quality. Julian Weiner-Angelopulo

Hysterical! A beautifully crafted production, full of unconventional family conflicts and of course

Noel Coward’s irresistible wit. Definitely one to see! Nisha McArthur

With a cast of extremely talented actors, Hay Fever demonstrated to us all the importance of tim-

ing in executing comic lines. It was like watching the Improv game “Character Swap” on a large

scale. Entertainment at its finest! Jamie Reisin.

Amanda Crompton

Penny Lindley

TERM 2 THEATRE CLUB


Y e a r 9 s t u d e n t A a r o n Lieberfreund spent the afternoon at Fishburners, Australi’s largest

Startup space. It is supported by Google for Entrepreneurs which provides technical content and infrastructure to support increas-ing demand from developers and startups and help grow their local economies.

It was here that Aaron was intro-duced to Brian Lim; Polymath, Serial Entrepreneur, Singularity University Alumni and founder of 3 space startups including his most recent company Hyper-cubes. Brian describes his current startup as “a way we help companies improve their ecological

footprint by reducing the waste output, Hypercube is capable of tracking pollution on the entire surface of the planet, through the use of low cost satellites and senso-ry technology”.

Aaron was able to share his book of ideas relating to science and tech-nology with Brian in the hope of gaining insight into the journey tech entrepreneurs face in the initial ide-ation phase. Aaron was able to see how Brian pitched his initial idea and provided crucial feedback on the significance of testing and building a prototype and the change that occurs throughout the process.

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To prepare for the new elective option ‘Entrepreneurship’ that was

initiated last year in the Year 9 Commerce program for term 4, we are excited to be apart of a p i l o t p r o g r a m t h r o u g h Startup.business (an initiative of Phronesis Academy Pty Ltd). It is a collaboration between academ-ics and entrepreneurs, with the mission to build prosperity globally through entrepreneurship educa-tion. It aims to present to 14-17 year-olds the opportunity & know-how to become a successful en-trepreneur and inspire them to see entrepreneurship as another career choice. The pilot begun last week and will continue for the remainder of the year. Essentially there are 6 modules that the students will work through based on the two frameworks. The first is making sense of complexity whereas the second helps students organise for an activity by Asking, Trying, Doing and Reflecting. By constantly revisiting this cycle students are able to take ownership of their learning experiences, develop a creative mindset, grow an understanding through en-quiry, trial, action and learning and also by noting the types of learning with which they work.

Startup.business has also encouraged us to grow our community of entrepreneurs by offering morning pitch workshops to our Year 10 Commerce students to en-sure they can continue their entrepre-neurial journey. These will run on Mon-day mornings from 8am – 8:50am at the Middle School. If you would like to at-tend these workshops and have not yet registered please contact Mrs Elisabeth Clarence.

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This Term Year 9 students are learning about Personal Finance including earning an income, spending and saving, managing finances and investing. To help with this process the Common-wealth Bank is running 4 work-shops to support the strength of financial literacy amongst school aged children. The Start Smart program chang-es the way young people learn about money by empowering them to make wise financial de-cisions for themselves. This initia-tive was launched in 2012 and is now in it’s second year at Red-dam. We would like to thank Beth who has delivered these

workshops for her enthusiasm and encouragement of our students. “The workshops delivered by Beth have allowed us to be more aware about our spending habits

and what influences us to make decisions. Beth has helped us in that we are able to make in-formed decisions about what our needs are rather than focusing on our wants and in some ways impulse buying”. “Sometimes I don’t even think before I buy and have never really thought too much about the im-pact it will have on saving in the future. By saving small amounts now I know it will only help me make better decisions and more importantly be in control of my money”.

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YEARS 11 & 12 - A reminder about the HSC & Careers Expo to be held at the Hall of Industries

Moore Park from Thursday 2 June to Sunday 5 June. Ms Jones has a limited number of free

tickets available to first in.

ATTENTION YEAR 10 - As you have now started the Purpose Navigator program in your PDHPE

lessons this term, as well as having sat the Alwell tests, it is time to start preparing for Work Ex-

perience which will be held after your final exams in Term 4. The June/July holidays are an

ideal time to start looking for a placement that interests you. You will be given forms and de-

tails about requirements near the end of this term to enable you to start the search process.

YEAR 12 - INTERESTED IN A CAREER IN HOSPITALITY?- The Hotel School Sydney is offering inter-

ested students to attend a 1 day program going behind the scenes of a leading 5-star hotel.

You will also be in the running for a scholarship valued at $40 000. For more details see Ms

Jones.

YEARS 10,11 & 12 STUDENTS INTERESTED IN DESIGN - The Whitehouse Institute of Design is hold-

ing an evening course commencing 25 May 2016. If interested see Ms Jones.

YEAR 12 - The Australian College of Applied Psychology is an alternative to mainstream uni-

versity to study courses in Psychology, Counselling, Social Work Case Management and So-

cial Sciences. For more information see Ms Jones.

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY EVENTS:

Year 10 Information Evening

Our information evenings are designed to help Year 10 students (and their parents)

choose subjects for their HSC, understand the maths prerequisites and learn about the

transition from high school to university. The 2016 Year 10 Information Evenings will be

held on-campus.

Date: Monday 16 May, Wednesday 18 May and Monday 23 May

Time: 6 - 8pm

Location: Eastern Avenue Auditorium, the University of Sydney, Camperdown

Registration: sydney.edu.au/yr10-info-evening

Scholarships Information Evening for Year 12

Join us at the Scholarships Information Evening to get tips on completing scholarship

applications, and hear from our students about their scholarship experience and the

support provided to them. Students will also have the opportunity to learn more about

our on-campus accommodation options and the scholarships available.

Date: Wednesday 22 June

Time: 6 - 8pm

Location: The University of Sydney, Camperdown

Registration: bit.ly/Scholarship-Info-Evening

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HSC VISUAL ARTS SHOWCASE


PRIMARY SCHOOL OPEN DAY PROGRAMME


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