Redwood School

Redwood School students celebrate at an Internship Graduation Ceremony

School Summer break

School closed on Friday 18 July and will re–open to students on Wednesday 3 September. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our parents, carers and most of all our amazing youngsters who have again made this a memorable year for everybody at Redwood School. A huge thanks also goes to the staff for their commitment and dedication to provide a variety of learning opportunities and enrichment activities. Governors have also provided a enormous amount of support to the school in the year. I hope that everybody associated with Redwood has a great summer break.

Internship Graduation Evening

This week saw the inaugural Internship Graduation Awards evening at Riverside which gave the staff, governors, parents and members of the local community to celebrate the achievements of this group of students. It was a pleasure to listen to the many positive accounts of the students stories in the work place environments in Rochdale .I wish all those students the best for their future – you are amazing ambassadors for the school.

Sports Review of the Year

Thank you to parents and carers for your support at last week’s Sports Review awards ceremony. This is now a well established part of Redwood’s calendar and is very popular with all concerned. The awards to the students reflect their work to Achieve Personal Best in all aspects of health and well being in school. Well done to all involved.

Key Stage 3 &4 Summer Extravaganza’s

The grounds of key stages 3 & 4 have been transformed this week as staff and students have planned summer extravaganza’s. A fabulous time has been had by all.

Summer Holiday Club programme

A reminder that the holiday club programme will run from Monday 28th July to August 15th and the days have now been allocated to those families involved. Enjoy what promises to be a great programme.

Best Wishes to…

On behalf of everybody at Redwood I would like to give best wishes to Vicky Rogers, Susan Whittaker and Lorraine Roberts who are leaving Redwood at the end of term for pastures new – Vicky to another teaching post in a special school and Sue and Lorraine who are retiring. Huge thanks for all your support over many years at the previous schools and more recently at Redwood. Good luck to Michaela and Jodie who start maternity leave.

Also best wishes to Lilie in KS3 who is poorly at the moment and is being missed by her friends and staff. Get well soon Lilie Rose.

KS4

On Tuesday Key stage 4 held a summer extravaganza, there was music, a BBQ, ice creams and lots of fun.

A big thank you to Matt Hindle the Head of Music at Manchester Creative & Media Academy and the 11 GCSE Students ( years 10 & 11’s) who entertained us with popular songs during our summer Extravaganza BBQ Lunch. The group were amazing and everyone commented what a brilliant atmosphere the band brought to the occasion, they helped make the day very special for all our students and staff.

KS5

6th form has been celebrating Christianity and the Caribbean as part of our yearly cultural week. We have been enjoying the stories, music and foods of these cultures and traditions .

Two groups went out on visits. Group 1 visited St George’s Church in Rochdale and Group 2 went to Manchester Cathedral. Fun was had by both groups.

We also had two visitors from the Mormon Church. Elder Parry and Elder Dadds told us about life as a Mormon, what their beliefs are and also what football team they support.

Congratulations to all the Internship students who graduated this week.

KS3

After school cookery club enjoyed a carvery to celebrate the end of term at Sandbrook Park, all pupils ate extremely well and went back for seconds.

Shane raised a toast and thanked all the staff for a lovely meal and a great year of cookery; everyone clapped. Then to be really greedy they all went over to McDonalds for a McFlurry ice-cream and sat on the grass..

Ethan, Abdullah, Safia and Sabrina went to Moorhouse school and then to Asda for drinks and biscuits. Retuning into school they piled into Mrs Wilson’s room and had free choice play.

Mrs Stott’s Enrichment group went to Burrs Country Park and had lots of fun in the fresh air.

Student Quote: Rebecca brought the DVD Frozen into school to watch in free time, the DVD kept freezing Miss Butterworth said “I wonder why this DVD keeps freezing?” Natasha a Year 8 pupil said “because it’s Frozen”.

Key Stage 3 held a Fun Day on Thursday, there was a range of sports activities, music with Karaoke and food including ice-cream to cool down in the Sensory Garden, plus games and adapted bikes on the MUGA.

Miss Rogers is leaving us at the end of term to start a new adventure in a new school. Miss Roger’s says “thank you to all the staff, pupils and parents for giving me a great experience over the last 7 Years. Good Luck to you all and I will miss you”

The students leaving the Lilac room to join Key Stage 4, SSC have been making collages of their time in our Key Stage; it has been lovely to see the changes over the last three years. KS3 staff especially those in Lilac room wish Niall, Shaun, Greg, Matthew & Sydney all the very best; they will be missed.

Miss Butterworth’s P.E groups played an end of term Rounder’s match (their topic this term), 8/9 Purple along with Mrs Clegg, Frankie and Semi Pro Mrs Lansom-Smith played against 8/9 Blue with Mrs Gower’s. Year 7 Green watched and cheered both teams. It was a close match but Purple won the game by half a rounder: 11.5 rounder’s Blue and 12 rounder’s Purple. Everyone who participated got a prize in assembly the following day for their amazing sportsmanship.

Tina and pupils have been working hard creating a graffiti wall in Mrs Wilson’s room; it is starting to look really bright and colourful. Thank you all who have contributed.