Expansion and Current Developments
Redlands continues to expand and it now occupies two campuses in Sydney, including the former Cremorne Girls' High School site which it purchased from the New South Wales government in 1989, which used to house junior and middle school students but the middle school students moved to the senior campus in 2011 in hope to increase space on junior campus for preschool students. The school also operates an experiential outdoor education site, the High Country Campus, in Jindabyne NSW. The school has gradually accumulated further academic reputation, with several students entering Oxford, Cambridge and Yale over recent years.
At one time, during the headmastership of Peter Cornish, SCECGS cultivated a relationship with the immediately adjacent mainstream Anglican parish of St Peter's, Cremorne, and indeed used its parish church as the school chapel.
Redlands offers the International Baccalaureate as well as the New South Wales Higher School Certificate. The 2006 academic year provided some of the most impressive results in recent years: 147 of its 182 members received a UAI over 85. One of its students managed to score a UAI of 99.95.
Christopher Daunt Watney, former Headmaster of Redlands, concluded 10 years at the School at the end of 2006. Mr. Neil Tucker temporarily filled the role until the end of 2007. In July 2007 the Board announced the appointment of Dr Peter G Lennox as the new Principal of Redlands from early 2008 while Mr. Neil Tucker filled the role until the end of 2007.
The school recently celebrated the completion of refurbishment of the senior Science laboratories and renamed the building "Roseby" - in recognition of the school's longest serving Headmistress (1911–1945) - Miss 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.
A Fibre backbone has been installed in the Senior Campus, replacing the old Copper (Cat-5) backbone, in effort to make learning and utility over network and internetwork resources to be faster, reliable and efficient.
In early 2010 the school undertook work on the Redlands Fitness Centre. After raising much money in the previous financial year, work began quickly and without interruption. It was completed in late 2010 and is now used regularly by a majority of Redlands students to improve their fitness.
A twelve million dollar radical development was undertaken on the Murdoch St Campus as part of the Federal government BER program and school borrowings. The sixties building has been knocked down to make way for a new prep school and an all purpose hall. The development now features a state of the art playground, larger 2400 square metre oval and new caged court for students to play on. As a fair amount of work has also bean completed on the senior campus, the school will now be divided into a preschool and K-6 Murdoch St Campus; and a years 7-12 Military Rd Campus. In theory, this improved efficiency by removing the number of times students move from campus to campus. The work was completed in time for term two of 2011. Due to this the Murdoch St Campus was renamed "Junior Campus" and Military Rd Campus renamed "Senior Campus".
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