Redwood School

Redwood School

RedAid
On Tuesday 16 June and Wednesday 24 June there will be whole school projects taking place with groups of students to prepare items for the RED-AID Family Fun Day on Friday 3 July. The sessions will range from textiles, making bracelets, pottery, card making, cooking, creating IPad / phone covers and batik to name a few. Both days will be an enterprise opportunity for groups of students to create merchandise for the RED-AID Day. We would also ask that any plastic bottles contributed should be given to the escorts on the buses. Both days will be non - uniform days for students. The RED-AID committee are also looking for donations for the tombola stall if you have any items you could donate please send them into school. Thanks you for your support.

Health and Well Being activities
This week has seen a significant number of students taking part in a variety of sporting activities and competitions including U16 and U19 cricket at Middleton Cricket Club and rugby at Blackburn RUFC. I know from the feedback that all those who took part had a fantastic day, were great ambassadors and enjoyed the competitions. Well done.

Post 16 Internship
Our Supported Employment Officer has informed school that another of our Internship Programme students, Nathan, has secured employment at the end of his programme. This is fantastic news and credit to Nathan and the staff who have supported him with his programme.

Health and Well Being Awards evening
This special evening will take place on Thursday 9th July at 7pm at the Gracie Fields Theatre and will be an opportunity to share the successes of the whole school in a variety of awards, sports related and achievements of the entire school population. More details will be sent out next week so please try your best to support this event

Power Cut
The school and the surrounding local area suffered a power cut on Tuesday for approximately one hour and despite the obvious inconvenience this caused in school and the need to have a back up plan at hand, the calmness of the students was wonderful to see .

KS3
Last week Callum and the Lilac class enjoyed celebrating Callum’s Birthday. We had lots of cakes kindly iced by Julie.

This term we will be looking at the book ‘The tiger who came to tea’, so for the reminder of the term we have borrowed Mrs Walsh’s Tiger who will be in class with us. Roarrr.

Charlotte and Ines have been chosen this week to be in charge of the tuck shop at break times, they are responsible for sorting the money and serving pupils efficiently

8/9 Yellow and Lilac have been exploring how the Moon goes around the Earth and The Earth goes around the Sun and that the sun does not move.

Year 7 Green have been learning French, so far they can say Bonjour (hello), Tutlemonde (hello to everyone), Excuser Moi (excuse me) and have been counting; pupils have spoken French all week unprompted in the corridors.

Jack S, Connor, Sophie and Jordan have had a lovely time in the Hydrotherapy Pool, they have enjoyed the calming atmosphere and bubbles. It was the first time Jack has experienced hydro and he loved it. Regular pupils have been improving and requiring less and less support from staff whilst in the pool and Jordan is even correcting his body position independently.

Our KS3 Star Signers had exceled in their signing skills in front of the whole department in assembly; they signed the lovely Cat Stephens song “Morning has broken”. The group are also developing their knowledge of signs by learning the 1st part of the foundation course learning ‘common words’.

Charlotte Hartley an international hockey player and Bronze medalist in 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth games did some work with Mr Hall’s maths groups on Tuesday morning. They learn about aspirations and overcoming obstacles. They also did some timing and measurement during the hockey activities. The results will be used in follow up maths lessons around Data Handling.

KS4
Students have been busy making pottery birds to sell at the Fun Day on July 3rd

The Bridging Year has been having driving lessons at MANTRA Training Centre. They have been learning about changing gears and how to stop.
This week SEB have been practicing their weaving on a giant frame.
Mr Alcock’s English group have just finished studying the play, ‘Foul Play. They have analysed the plot discussed characters and discussed individual opinions concerning their favourite scenes. To complete the topic they have been working on creating a digital storyboard using the App Comic Life on the Ipads.

KS5

Members from 5F had a wonderful time exploring local footpaths and nature as part of their topic work on The Community.

During the Summer Term Class 5D have been learning about Community and the facilities available in Rochdale. This week we visited the Rochdale Pioneers Museum. All the class were able to explore and take part in activities. This included exploring clothes worn during the First World War and standing behind the counter at the Pioneers original co-operative shop. We all had a great time.

What a fun and exciting time everyone had at The Calvert Trust near Keswick. There were plenty of activities for everyone. Billie enjoyed the horse riding and the zip wire, Alex loved the canoeing and swimming. Brandon enjoyed riding and meeting Kirby the horse and Jordan’s favourite was the zip wire.

Jamie’s highlight was the zip wire and swimming whilst Tom enjoyed the archery and the horse riding. Louis was brave on the zip wire and Katie enjoyed the canoeing. Everyone was treated to fabulous grub and there was time for socialising and chilling out in the Games Room and at the disco. Students had lots of fun and worked as a team during the Bush Craft activities. Adele, Sarah, Phil Julie, Brian and Anne loved every minute of it.

Student of the week
Billie for great social skills and interaction, for joining in enthusiastically in lessons and being a superstar generally.

Most improved Student
Tom for coping really well with all the changes to his routine (and meal times) when he was on residential.