Redwood School

RED-AID fundraising event at Morrisons supermarket

1 More Image(s) In Gallery

Weather disruption
As we encountered the first snowfall of the winter it had an impact on the school during the week. Transport was cancelled by the Local Authority and parents / carers were notified by Parent Mail text service on Sunday evening, we always recommend parents / carers visit school`s website or facebook page for further details. On Wednesday, we saw disruption again which resulted in transport taking students home earlier than normal when we had confirmed this with parents and carers. Thank you for your support with this and let’s hope we do not get a repeat.

Bag Packing at Morrison's Rochdale
On behalf of RedAid, staff managed to access a fundraising opportunity which took place on Saturday 24 January at Morrison's in Rochdale.

Full report and photos: http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/93860/redaid-raise-1000-bag-packing

Valentine`s Family Disco - RedAid
A family Valentine Disco is being held at school on Tuesday 10 February, 5.30pm to 7.30pm, with a cost of £2 a ticket. All proceeds will go to RedAid to support the raise funds for youngsters with disabilities. This will be a great night to mix with other families and chill! Those students who normally attend the youth club on this night will be able to attend the disco.

Healthy Schools Status
This week a moderation visit took place in school to celebrate good practice and report on the processes in place with specific area reviewed was how we support the emotional health and well being of our youngsters. Thank you to those student councilors who discussed this with the team and also gave the team a guided tour of the school! Great ambassadors for the school.

Inclusive Rowing
There maybe a few aching arms and legs for some students who took part in the inclusive rowing programme this week! Having seen some of the groups taking part, I know how much effort was put in.

Redwood Short Breaks
A reminder that the youth clubs take place on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 6pm – 8pm, and Saturday morning 10am – 12. Students are welcome to attend and should parents require more details please contact school.

KS3

KS3 paid respect to Callum’s life by watching a PowerPoint of all the photos of Callum whilst listening to The Cool Green Garden song; the pupils in Callum’s tutor group plus Kean went into the sensory garden to say a little prayer and goodbye by releasing a balloon in memory of Callum.

We now have a Head Teacher Achievers board in KS3; each week 8 pupils are selected by staff who they think have tried very hard, done something special – achieved something, these pupils are invited to meet with Mr Pidgeon on a Friday afternoon to show him their work and tell him what they have achieved in return for praise & congratulations with a letter to go home and some chocolate.

A big well done to Alicia, she won a freestyle dance competition at Turners Dance School.

Pupils took part in Redwood’s annual inclusive rowing day which offers every young person in the school the experience of indoor rowing. This event has always been a very successful event, delivered in partnership with Link4Life and Rochdale SGO’S (school games organisers). The rowing machines can be used in a variety of different lessons and environments.

One of our staff members, Sue Stridgen is visiting Bradford college to deliver three workshops on how to include students who have hearing impairments in the classroom and introducing a selection of aids available to assist with communication.

In History Year 7 Red are learning about “how we used to live.” This week they have been doing some clothes washing in the ‘Old Fashioned’ way, using resources provided by Touchstones museum in Rochdale.

Year 8/9 Green have been learning about Electricity in Science and have really understood the DANGERS of electricity.

Year 8/9 Yellow made the most of the SNOW! They had a great time in their Art lesson making different patterns in the snow using paint, footprints, and wheel tracks.

KS4

In Art students have been studying the work of Teesha Moore. They have made their own vases using her style. The results are stunning.

Thursday morning Enterprise group have been very busy making Valentines Cards for sale. They have completed some market research to find out the most popular designs and will be going into full production over the next two weeks.

Students experienced TV and film make up this week. They enjoyed putting their make up on then performing in front of the green screen. We had an Elsa, Ben Ten, a zombie and Spider man.

KS5

Kelsey’s group have been working with the Health and Wellbeing Team on balance, using different pieces of equipment. Komel was quite nervous at first but was able to overcome her reservations and she said: “I felt proud of myself.”

In PSHE some students have been working on Personal Hygiene and Appearance.

Students visited the supermarket and were able to locate items according to aisle, such as dairy products, bread products and meat.