, motto_translation = Let Your Light Shine , established = , type =

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, denomination = Anglican , affiliations = , educational_authority =

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, slogan = , alumni = The Redlanders , principal = Stephen Webber , chairperson = Glenda McLoughlin , location = Cremorne,

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(accessed:24-04-2006) , enrolment_as_of = 2005 , grades = Early learning;

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, grades_label = Years , staff = , colours = Blue and gold , homepage = , campus = , campus_type =

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, test_name = Redlands, Sydney Church of England Co-educational Grammar School, is a multi-campus

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

early learning,

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, and

day Christian school, in the

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tradition, located in Cremorne on the Lower North Shore of

, Australia. Established in 1884, the non-selective school and caters for approximately 1,600 students from early learning and on to Year K to

Year 12 Year 12 is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is sometimes the twelfth year of compulsory education, or alternatively a year of post-compulsory educa ...

. Redlands is a member of the Association of Independent Schools NSW, the Independent Schools Association, the

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, and the Council of International Schools.

History

Established in 1884 as a school for girls (and boys in the younger years) and run by the Misses Liggins and Arnold until around 1910. The school was purchased by

Gertrude Amy Roseby Gertrude Amy Roseby (20 April 1872 – 27 December 1971) was an Australian Congregationalist lay leader as well as school teacher, principal and school owner. Early life Born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 20 April 1872, Roseby was the eldest o ...

and her sister Mabel in 1911 who ran it until 1945. Redlands later established an association with the

Anglican Diocese of Sydney The Diocese of Sydney is a diocese in Sydney, within the Province of New South Wales of the Anglican Church of Australia. The majority of the diocese is evangelical and low church in tradition. The diocese goes as far as Lithgow in the wes ...

and became the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School, Redlands in 1945; abbreviated as SCEGGS. Redlands severed legal ties with the Anglican Diocese in 1976, and was re-constituted as a wholly independent school. SCEGGS, Redlands (as it then was),

SCEGGS Darlinghurst , motto_translation = Let Your Light Shine , established = , type = Independent single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding school , denomination = Anglicanism , oversight = , educational_authority = New South Wales Departm ...

, SCEGGS

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and SCEGGS Loquat Valley survived by re-constituting themselves as wholly independent entities, severing their legal ties with the Anglican diocese while retaining the Church of England title in their corporate names. SCEGGS

Moss Vale Moss Vale is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in the Wingecarribee Shire. It is located on the Illawarra Highway, which connects to Wollongong and the Illawarra coast via Macquarie Pass. Moss Vale has several he ...

, was unable to recover, and closed. Loquat Valley became a member of the Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation. When the school became co-educational, its title changed to Sydney Church of England Co-educational Grammar School, Redlands; abbreviated as SCECGS Redlands.

Motto

The

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school motto of Redlands, ''Luceat lux vestra'', is taken from , translates "Let your light shine." It appears in the school song which was shared with the other SCEGGS schools: : Students of Redlands School, those old and new : Gathered or parted, all the world through : Still to the motto that binds us keep true: : Luceat Lux Vestra. After the collapse of the SCEGGS school network, and Redlands' admission of boys in 1978, the first line of the SCEGGS song was altered at Redlands to "Students of Redlands School, those old and new...."

School governance

Since the

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SCEGGS schools collapse, Redlands has been independently owned and operated by SCECGS Redlands Limited — a public company limited by guarantee. The role of the Board is to oversee the management and business of the company, and in particular to: * Appoint the School Principal and monitor performance * Establish the vision and strategic direction of the School * Support the School Executive and management in the implementation of that vision and strategic direction * Ensure that the resources necessary for the achievement of agreed goals are available.

Academic offerings

Redlands offers the

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as well as the New South Wales Higher School Certificate. Redlands has offered the International Baccalaureate since 1989, longer than any other school in NSW. In 2016, eight students achieved an ATAR of 99 or more and one third of students achieved an ATAR of 95 or more.

Campus facilities

Redlands occupies two campuses in Sydney, including the former

Cremorne Girls High School (The best possible things in the best possible way) , principal = Ruth Readford (1985–1987) , established = 1927 (NBGIHS)January 1941 (NBGJHS)April 1952 (CGHS) , status = Closed , closed = 1987 , sister_school = Crows Nest Boys High School , ...

site on Murdoch Street, which it purchased from the

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in 1989. This site houses the Preschool, Preparatory and Junior School students. The Senior Campus on

Military Road {{Use dmy dates, date=November 2019 The following is a list of military roads worldwide. Australia * Part of the A8 (Sydney) between Neutral Bay and Mosman * Military Road, part of Route 39, Melbourne * Military Road, off Wanneroo Road just north ...

is for the Secondary School students. The school operates Redlands Preschools at Cremorne and

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, and also operates an experiential outdoor education site, the High Country Campus, in

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. Peter J. Cornish was appointed Principal in 1981, and is credited with returning the school to financial security and academic respectability in the period 1981 to 2002. Cornish was formerly Deputy Headmaster of

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, and previously an English master at Shore (Sydney Church of England Grammar School), both Anglican boys' schools. He emphasised academic achievement, as well as developing numerous sport and co-curricular opportunities. Cornish cultivated an association with several neighbouring Anglican parishes, including the immediately adjacent mainstream Anglican parish of St Peter's, Cremorne, and indeed the school continues use of the parish church as the Secondary School chapel. On Foundation Day 2007, the Governor Phillip Building was renamed the Peter Cornish Building, in recognition and honour of his achievements and progressions in the school. The Boys 1st IV Rowing boat was also named in his honour at a ceremony on 16 March 2008. At the end of 2006, Christopher Daunt Watney, former Principal of Redlands, concluded 4 years at the School. Neil Tucker temporarily filled the role until the end of 2007. In July 2007 the Board announced the appointment of Dr Peter Lennox as Principal from early 2008. In 2007, the school celebrated the completion of refurbishment of the Secondary School Science laboratories and renamed the building Roseby - in recognition of the school's longest serving Headmistress (1911–1945) - G. A. Roseby. The board also announced the naming of The Adams Centre (former Cremorne Post Office) building on the southern side of Military Road. In 2010 the school completed the Redlands Fitness Centre which is now used regularly by a majority of Redlands students for fitness training. In 2010-11, a major development was undertaken on the Murdoch Street Campus as part of the Federal government BER program. The 1960s three-storey building was demolished to make way for the new home for the Margaret Roberts Preparatory School (K-2) and an all purpose sports and assembly hall. The development now features a state of the art playground, larger oval and new enclosed ball games court for students to play on. The school is now divided into a Redlands House Early Childhood (Preschool) and K-2 and 3-6 on the Murdoch Street Campus, called the Junior Campus; and a Years 7-12 on the Military Road Campus, named the Senior Campus. In 2016, the school commenced redevelopment of the Senior Campus. Dr Peter Lennox retired after 12 years of exemplary service to the school and Stephen Webber commenced as Principal in January 2020.

Principals

House system

Redlands has four houses; Cowper, Dumolo, McDouall and Roseby. Each is named after a notable family or person linked with the school's history. Each student wears a badge on their blazer. School pride amongst students is most prominent at the school's yearly Swimming Carnival, Cross Country Carnival, Athletics Carnival and performing arts night - Gala Arts.

Sport

Redlands is a member of the Independent Schools Association (ISA), also competing against the

Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales The Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales (AAGPS) is a sporting association of boys' schools in New South Wales, Australia that contest sporting events among themselves. The AAGPS was formed on 30 March 1892, and to ...

(AAGPS) in some sports. The school offers both representative and non-representative sports, with students being required to compete in one representative sport a year (either Summer or Winter). In the Senior School, many students participate in basketball and netball. The school's rowing program is now situated at

Mosman Rowing Club Mosman Rowing Club is an all-level competitive and recreational rowing club on the North Shore of Sydney. Since 2007 the club's facilities have been wholly located at The Spit in Sydney's Middle Harbour, the northern arm of Port Jackson. Merc ...

, Pearl Bay for on water training, after an arson attack destroyed the shed at Tambourine Bay in 2007. Summer sports include

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

, touch football,

indoor hockey Indoor hockey is an indoor variant of field hockey. It is similar to the outdoor game in that two teams compete to move a hard ball into the goal of the opposing side using hockey sticks. Indoor hockey is played on a smaller area and between sm ...

rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically atta ...

, and

sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

. Winter sports include

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athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

, cross country,

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...

netball Netball is a ball sport played on a court by two teams of seven players. It is among a rare number of sports which have been created exclusively for female competitors. The sport is played on indoor and outdoor netball courts and is specifical ...

rugby Rugby may refer to: Sport * Rugby football in many forms: ** Rugby league: 13 players per side *** Masters Rugby League *** Mod league *** Rugby league nines *** Rugby league sevens *** Touch (sport) *** Wheelchair rugby league ** Rugby union: 1 ...

snowsports Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. Most are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally, such games were only played in cold area ...

, and

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

Redlands Art Prize

The school has hosted the Redlands Art Prize since 1996. Since 2013 () it has been named the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize and sponsored by

Konica Minolta is a Japanese multinational technology company headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, with offices in 49 countries worldwide. The company manufactures business and industrial imaging products, including copiers, laser printers, multi-fu ...

. It was formerly called the Redlands Westpac Art Prize after its then sponsor

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. From 2012 it has been presented at the

National Art School The National Art School (NAS) is a tertiary level art school, located in , an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school is an independent accredited higher education provider offering specialised study in studio arts p ...

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, after 15 years of being presented by the school and then by Mosman Gallery. The prize was worth in 2017. As an acquisitive prize, the substantial collection is displayed at the school. Past winners have included

Imants Tillers Imants Tillers (born 1950), is an Australian artist, curator and writer. He lives and works in Cooma, New South Wales. Early life and education Imants Tillers was born in Sydney in 1950, the child of Latvian immigrants. In 1973 he graduated from ...

Pat Brassington Pat Brassington (born 1942) is an Australian contemporary artist working in the field of digital art, and photography. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she was named Australia's key surrealist working in photomedia. Brassington's work has been exhi ...

, Callum Morton,

Julie Gough Julie Gough (born 1965) is an artist, writer and curator based in Tasmania, Australia. Early life and education Gough was born in 1965 in Melbourne. Her paternal heritage is Scottish and Irish, while her maternal Aboriginal heritage is of ...

Vernon Ah Kee Vernon Ah Kee (born 1967) is a contemporary Australian artist, political activist and founding member of ProppaNOW. Based primarily in Brisbane, Queensland, Ah Kee is an Aboriginal Australian man with ties to the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidin ...

Ben Quilty Ben Quilty (born 1973) is an Australian artist and social commentator, who has won a series of painting prizes: the 2014 Prudential Eye Award, 2011 Archibald Prize, and 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. He has been described as one of Aus ...

Lindy Lee Lindy Lee (born 1954) is an Australian painter and sculptor of Chinese heritage, whose work blends the cultures of Australia and her ancestral China and explores her Buddhist faith. She has exhibited widely, and is particularly known for her lar ...

Fiona Foley Fiona Foley (born 1964) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from K'gari (Fraser Island), Queensland. Foley is known for her activity as an academic, cultural and community leader and for co-founding the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-o ...

and

Tom Polo __NOTOC__ Tom Polo (born 1985) is an Australian artist based in Sydney, New South Wales. His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in several capital cities of Australia as well as in London, England. He holds a Bachelor of Fine ...

(2014).

Notable alumni

* Elizabeth Allen poet *

Rachael Beck Rachael Elizabeth Beck (born 9 February 1971) is an Australian stage and television singer-actress. From 1991 to 1994 Beck had a major role on the popular sitcom, '' Hey Dad..!'', as Samantha Kelly. From 2006 to 2008, Beck appeared on all three ...

musical theatre (''

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'', ''

The Sound of Music ''The Sound of Music'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, '' The Story of the Trapp Family Singers''. Se ...

'') and television star ('' Hey Dad..!'', '' It Takes Two'') *

Charlotte Best Charlotte Elise Best (born 16 January 1994) is an Australian actress and model. She is best known for her role in the show ''Home and Away'' as the young girl in the Campbell family, Annie Campbell. Biography Best grew up in the suburb of Po ...

actress and model * Eleanor Darkauthor, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature *

Amy Dickson Amy Dickson (born 1982) is an Australian classical saxophone player. Early life Dickson was born in Sydney. She began to play piano at the age of two, and saxophone at the age of six. She initially played 'some jazz' in her youth, but eventual ...

Grammy nominated classical saxophonist *

Sophie Falkiner Sophie Falkiner (born 20 March 1973, in Melbourne) is an Australian television presenter. Sophie has previously presented an entertainment news series ''Confidential'' on Fox8. She was also a presenter on '' The Great Outdoors'' and letter-tur ...

television presenter * Nick FisherOlympic freestyle *

Karyn Gojnich Karyn Gojnich (born 27 December 1960, née Davis) is an Australian sailor. She has competed for Australia at three Olympic Games, in 1988 in the Women's Two Person Dinghy (470), and in 2004 and 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, cloc ...

Olympic sailor *

Thistle Yolette Harris Thistle Yolette Harris (29 July 1902 – 5 July 1990), also known as Thistle Stead, was an Australian botanist, educator, author and conservationist. Biography She was one of three daughters born to Charles Thomas Harris and Illma Richardso ...

a botanist, educator, author and conservationist *

Janusz Hooker Leslie Janusz Hooker (born 28 September 1969) is an Australian businessman and former Australian national champion and representative rower who won a bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Family background and education Hooker's grand ...

businessman and Olympic bronze medalist * Diana Horvath doctor and medical administrator *

Anna Lunoe Anna Lunoe (born 26 May) is an Australian DJ, vocalist, songwriter and producer now living in Los Angeles, California. Lunoe has performed at music festivals including Coachella, Lollapalooza, Ultra, TomorrowWorld and Hard Summer. She now hosts ...

DJ, vocalist, songwriter and producer *

Helen Murrell Helen Gay Murrell is an Australian lawyer and judge who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. She is the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice. Early life Murrell grew up in Seaforth, New Sout ...

Chief Justice of the ACT Supreme Court *

Ellice Nosworthy Ellice Maud Nosworthy (25 February 1897 – 7 January 1972) was an Australian practising architect for approximately 50 years and graduated as one of Australia's first female architects in 1922. Early life and education Nosworthy, was a second ...

architect *

Alison Rehfisch Alison Baily Rehfisch (23 January 1900 – 12 March 1975) was an Australian painter born in Sydney. Early life Alison Rehfisch was born as Alison Baily Green on 23 January 1900 in Woollahra, Sydney, and grew up in Mosman. Her mother, who was a ...

painter * Victoria RobertsOlympic rower, three-time world champion * Kathryn Robinsonjournalist, television and radio presenter *

Catriona Rowntree Catriona Rowntree (born 19 July 1971) is an Australian television presenter. Rowntree is currently a presenter on the Nine Network's '' Getaway'' program. Career Rowntree studied journalism at Macleay College in Sydney, after working as a re ...

television presenter on Channel Nine's "Getaway" program *

Ruel (singer) Ruel Vincent van Dijk (born 29 October 2002), known mononymously as Ruel, is a British-Australian singer and songwriter from Sydney, best known for his singles " Don't Tell Me", " Younger", " As Long as You Care" and "Painkiller". At the ARIA M ...

singer

References

External links

*
Crikey Alumni List
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Motto

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Academic offerings

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Principals

House system

Sport

Redlands Art Prize

Notable alumni

See also

References

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