Productivity: The Creative Influencers.
Aware of the first Kindergarten in Australia having been licensed under the name of Miss G Roseby, Headmistress and co-proprietor of Redlands 1911 until 1945/46, the Board and Staff of the reconstructed SCECGS Redlands could not but watch for opportunities to encourage particular, validated educational outcomes 1973 – 2003. Some of the particular initiatives to emerge from an energetic, keen and integrated school curriculum with co-curriculum are mentioned below.
Elsewhere on the website are noted Games, Clubs, Co-curricular activities such as the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme, and specialist Sports introduced and coached by selfless Staff with particular skills to allow development of opportunities to enrich students’ view of the world. All required dedication and the donation of time by Staff; no amount of money could possibly meet the commitment shown by so many.
Let it be noted here also that on a wider scale and scope, the creative, education enhancing activities authorised by SCECGS Redlands’ Board as correctly being part of Grammar School, liberal education experience were also encouraged. International Baccalaureate Soirees, Drama productions, International Exchange programmes, Music performance tours, Fathers’ Day breakfasts, Grandparents’ Day entertainment, Curriculum Camps (all Forms), The Redlands Foundation events, The Adventure Programme, Tutor Task supervisions, Foundation Day Thanksgiving Services – all assisted in persuading each child to find his or her own approach to the world he or she, well prepared, would come to know and need.
Specifically note can be made here of particular activities and frequent creative works by so many children – there were some 400 performers in Journey: Songs for Redlands – and so individually as well. Accordingly it is recorded here – to be expanded by others as may be undertaken in time ahead – that the following are some of the many creative outcomes, as much as they are also inputs, of the Redlands Years’ total curriculum.
1. Annual Fashion Parades. Guided by Ms Michelle Grey, Textiles and Design senior Staff.
2. Christmas Allsorts Concert St Peter’s Anglican Church Cremorne
Wednesday 29 November 2000. Form 9 Elective Music Students. Arranged by Mr. Rowley Moore, Director of Music, assisted by Mr. Warwick Edman, Ms A Brodie, Mr. Pastor de Lasala, Ms A Heike.
3. Helicon: magazine of original writing by Redlands’ students, edited by Mr Anthony Ronaldson.
4. HICES Music Festival. Wednesday 22 August 2001. Patron and Conductor: the late Dr Richard Gill OAM. Key involvement of Director of Music Mr. Rowley Moore.
5. Independent Schools Association (ISA) established to ensure inter-school Sport and Games competition/co-operation. Redlands’ involvement authorised by the Board. Establishment guided and led by Mr Martin Longhurst, long-serving Director of Sport, with friendly co-operation of all co-educationally oriented Heads of Schools. Established 1990. See ISA web-site for details.
6. International Baccalaureate membership. Initiated 1987. Authorised by the Board. Introduction guided and led by Mr Christopher Brangwin, Deputy Headmaster, subsequently Co-ordinator for the IBO Australasia. Negotiated the IB Diploma: ATAR relationship. oratorio
7. Journey: Song for Redlands. Performed at the opening and dedication of the High Country Campus, August 1995. ( Performance included on website).
8. Redelations – the student magazine and wide-ranging newspaper early to mid 1980s. Established in Junior School by student Jonathon Appleton.
9. Redlands in Retrospect. Miss M Gilham, Editor assisted by Professor Ron Dunlop. Centenary year.
10.Redlands Life Journal of the SCECGS Redlands Foundation. Edited by Mr Alex Nicholson, mid to late 1990s
11.Roseby Rubies 1994, Staff theatre production. Directed by Melissa Robbins, English Department.
12.The Redlands Westpac Art Prize. Introduction and development led by Miss G Stewart, Senior Mistress/ Deputy Headmistress, subsequently assisted by Mr. Alex Nicholson, Director, SCECGS Redlands Foundation.
13.Solar Car Challenge, Student led, Cremorne Campus, mid 1990s.
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14.The Prep Peek Margaret Roberts Preparatory School magazine, led by Miss Sue Pike, Head of Preparatory School.
15.Two Poets: Rory Buck and Amy Nunn. Published by Redlands Press: 1997. (National Library)
As this is written, so the bright colours of those Redlands Years of teaching dapple the page. So too do the remembrances offered to all colleagues throughout the school’s working structure, who did all that was required and more that was of his and her own contribution to show each child that even though there is only one chance=one day, in self-disciplined seeking to learn and to know, the best opportunities to take those chances have been offered over those decades of the reconstructed SCECGS Redlands. To all: thank you.
Peter J Cornish
Sydney
May 2020.
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