Redwood School

Redwood Education and Enterprise Centre

The formal opening of the Redwood Education and Enterprise Centre (REEC) takes place next week. This promises to be a wonderful event and gives everybody associated with REEC the opportunity to celebrate the formal opening of such a unique provision for the students aged 16 – 19 with special educational needs.

Health Review meeting

A reminder that the parents / carers have the opportunity to meet with representatives of the NHS Foundation Trust in school to discuss the health care proposals for the special schools in Rochdale.

Year 7 – 9 Curriculum Creative Days

Next week students in key stage 3 are having the opportunity to take part in a project which celebrates the Diwali Festival of Light. This includes a visit to the Science museum and workshops exploring sensory light. It promises to be an excellent and fun filled two days.

Energy Awareness Week

We are promoting Energy Awareness Week by tutor groups nominating a ‘Switch off Monitor` who will be responsible for ensuring unused equipment is turned off and lights are switched off.

Year 8 and Post 16 Annual Reviews

Thank you to those parents and carers who have attended the reviews this week which have been extremely positive and a vital aspect of ensuring that home and school are working together to meet the individual needs of the youngsters in all aspects of school life

'Children in Need'

There will be a number of activities taking place to support the fundraising for this very special cause.

KS4

SEB did an amazing job at selling poppies to staff. Before the minutes silence the class experienced the sounds of the 2nd world war air raid sirens. SEB also watched and listened to music that would have been played throughout the 2nd world war to the troops ending with a victory party.

SEB also had a great time on their day out. They went to see the new Christmas decorations at the Range, then to look at some animals at Pets at Home. Fiazaan loved the Degus and was laughing and giggling at them. Akash showed us which rabbits she wanted to take home.

This term students have been working with Mrs James investigating the different types of festivals that people celebrate during the winter months around the world. Students had to research Diwali, Ramadan, Hanukkah and Christmas.

Mr Alcock’s English group have been working hard on their own version of a true story called The Ghostly Hitchhiker. They had to reduce a large story down to its key points and then produce a cartoon version of it. They then used ipads to create a final version.

KS3

All Key stage 3 took part in an act of remembrance. They held a minutes silence, laid reefs and signed the poem Flanders fields.

Year 8 Purple have been looking at the story of the Pied Piper. They have been writing a formal letter to the main characters to discuss events in the story.

In ICT Year 7 Green have been exploring where the can find information and using the information to create posters.

Mr Jackson’s class have been looking at the importance of good hand washing. Students have been getting their hands dirty and seeing how clean they become using soap. Lee has been using an interactive game to explore this further.

Key stage 3 have also been looking at how they can show positive British values.

KS5

Student of the week

Jack - For walking sensible around 6th form and improved behaviour.

Most improved student - Shanza - For settling in and learning lots of new English vocabulary.

We had the launch of the Redwood house system, with students and staff being placed into one of the 4 houses. After, we went to the Bistro to mix with students in the other key stages.

5A have been exploring facial features and the fact that we are all different and unique. We have been examining the structure of each other's face. This lesson has been fun and everyone has enjoyed it.