Redwood School

Redwood School

Family Halloween Disco

Thank you to the families who supported the family disco this week. A great time was had by all with costumes galore and refreshments.

Achievement Assembly

We held a special assembly to celebrate the achievements of Key Stage 4 students during the past year. It involved presentation of achievement awards, examples of student work and film examples of the various activities. Thank you to parents and carers who supported this special event and stayed for refreshments following the awards ceremony.

Half Term: School will re-open to pupils on Monday 3 November after the half term break.

Half Term Holiday Programme

The activities programme takes place next week for those students who have been offered a place. I am sure everybody will enjoy the programme.

Post 16 Open Day – Wednesday 5 November

Parents and carers of current Year 11 students are invited the Post 16 Open day on Wednesday 5 November. This will enable you to receive information on the various courses available next year. Representatives from the Local Authority and Positive Steps will be present also to answer any questions you may have.

Departmental Offer

Each key stage has produced a document giving details of the various curriculum pathways for the term. Should you wish to have a copy please contact school or for more details please visit the school website.

After School and Youth Club programme

The after school clubs last week attracted 94 pupils taking the opportunity to take part in clubs such as multi sports, cookery, crafts, hair and beauty, ICT, music, football, film, Wii and swimming. Something for everybody. 36 students also attended the Youth Clubs during the week. For more details please visit the website. As ever thank you for your support.

KS5

Everyone had a great time at the Rugby Tournament. We came away with Bronze medals. Well done.

In Music, we accompanied the Chinese music with ribbon dances. We had a go at counting to 10 in Chinese– number 8 makes you sound like a sheep.

Student of the week: Kenny for having a good attitude, for listening more and getting himself to the bus at a faster pace.

Most improved student: Alex L for good eye gazing and using new technology.

Tom went shopping to buy food for the picnic; he brought Pizza, crisps yoghurt and coke.

Jordan has been working on his Life Skills and made himself a nice cup of tea.

KS4

The Bridging Year enjoyed being part of MANTRA’s OPEN DAY. They enjoyed watching the camera crew filming different equipment throughout the warehouse. They also made ‘Creepy Crawly’ Popcorn hands as part of their class Enterprise.

4U students worked very hard this week during their Enterprise lesson, hollowing out Pumpkins and carving them for the Halloween Disco. Students then aim to use the fresh ingredients to make Pumpkin Pie / Soup and sell the beautifully carved Pumpkins to make a profit after they have been used to decorate the Halloween Disco.
The KS4 ‘Survival of the Fittest’ Team is ready for action. On the 8 November they will be taking part in a 10 km crazy obstacle course. Please sponsor them by using the text service or by sending a donation into school in an envelope marked ‘Survival’. All monies raised will go to Red-Aid.

A brilliant night was had by all at the Red-Aid Halloween Disco.

KS3

Our Key Stage 3 target this week is “To solve problems peacefully”

Year 7 Yellow finished the topic on numbers in math’s, some of the activities surrounding this topic proved very messy which the pupils just loved.

Cathy’s enrichment group looked at the colour Orange and made sweet potato with garlic and ginger soup.

8/9 Green have completed their poetry topic of revolting rhymes-Jack & the beanstalk, the whole group absolutely loved it.

In year 7 Blue Citizenship lesson they have been learning about ‘people who help us’, Officer Patterson from the police visited and spoke to the pupils about what he does in his job and also answered questions which were devised by the pupils. Now they all want to work in the police apart from Akeel who would like to become a bus driver.

In Stacy’s enrichment group all about colours made strawberry smoothies to support the work about Pete the cat.

Continuing work to explore feelings year 8/9 Yellow made Halloween crafts for the “scared” feeling in their PSHE lesson.

Year 8/9 Blue have been very busy in food technology, they have enjoyed the practical sessions especially making bread and pizza

8/9 Purple enjoyed watching ‘live-time’ video streams of The Space Station as well as the pre-recorded comet footage that passed very near to Mars last Sunday courtesy of our N.A.S.A connections via the internet as part of Our Earth & Space topic.

Pupils in the Lilac group have started Peer Massage and so far are really enjoying it. Mrs Eaton said: “Their response to this has shocked us all”.