Redwood School

Redwood School

Christmas Fayre

As we approach the festive season I would like to give prior information of our Christmas Fayre which will take place on Wednesday 10 December, 10am – 12pm.

BridgeAbility Football

Redwood pupils featured significantly in an historic night for BridgeABILITY football. Ben A, Chloe, Ubaid, Luke W all from KS3 plus Callum C from KS4 all featured for the newly formed “Development Squad”. They were part of a 17 strong squad and played against Heyside and Curzon Ashton in the first night of the development league. All played a series of ‘mixed’ team fixtures in a great spirit. There were lots of smiles, some super football and quite a lot of shivering. Well done to all the players on a tough night where football and smiles were the winners.

My Plans and Annual Reviews

At each of the My Plan and Annual Review meetings we will be asking parents / carers to spend five minutes at the end of the review to complete the online Parent View survey. Staff will assist with the process. These surveys and internal parental survey are a vital aspect of monitoring your views of the school. Thank you in advance for your co-operation.

Magic Breakfast

We have recently secured funding from the DFE to plan a variety of breakfast options for youngsters come into school in the morning. The logistics are being looked at this term to start the Magic Breakfast in the new year. A letter will be sent to all parents / carers before the end of term to confirm the details.

Dragon`s Den at Redwood
As part of the recent Health and Well Being focus, youngsters have had the opportunity to plan a sustainable project which improves the health and well - being of all youngsters and staff in school during 2015. There are some great ideas which we will share with parents / carers in the next few weeks.

Year 10 Parents Consultation Evening

Thank you to parents / carers for your contribution this week at the Y10 parents evening.

Departmental Offer: Autumn Term 2014

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

Chair and Vice Chair- Student Council Elections will take place to choose the chair and vice chair of the student council for this school year. Those names proposed are: Dylan, Elle, Luke (Key State 3)Ellis, James, Billy (Key Stage 4) and Paul in 6th Form.

KS4:

Students in SSC make chocolate rice crispie cakes to sell every week for their class enterprise.

The ICT Functional Skills groups have been making Top Trump Cards, comparing Eco Friendly Cars, taking data from spreadsheet and designing the cards in Publisher.
 
The ‘Cook and Eat’ group made their own burgers and salad. This included making their own muffins. We were all extremely impressed with them, some staff didn't believe we had made them ourselves they looked that good.
 
Some of the KS4 students showed off the skills they have learnt this week in circus after school club.

KS5

Some of the students went to Rochdale Olympics Gymnastics Club in Springfield Park. They practiced making different shapes, using the springboard and balancing on the beam.
 
Congratulations to both Habib and Sajid on successfully completing the independent travel programme. Lynda, the I.T. co-ordinator, stated that the pair had worked extremely hard and they also had to overcome an array of extraordinary barriers in order to achieve their award.
 
Congratulations to Abbey who won the award for the best designed butterfly in her pottery lesson at Hopwood Hall College. Students also started decorating their snowmen this week.
 
5E enjoyed their trip out to the bowling. Brandon was the overall winner. Afterwards everyone went for a meal at The Sandbrook.
 
Students of the week:

Anees for being supportive towards his peers in his form group and starting to show a more mature attitude. He has also been helpful towards the staff and communicating more.
 
Most improved Student

Aisha for increased cooperation and handing objects over to staff on request.

KS3

8A are now practicing Jingle Bells for KS3 Christmas show.

The Lilac group thoroughly enjoyed participating in a story about a haircut that all went wrong.

Sophie, Katelan, Nazmeen, Akeel and Jordan H enjoyed a trip to the Manchester Christmas Markets; Katelan was in charge of photography and all pupils very much enjoyed tasting homemade Cheese & onion pasties. All the pupils’ behaved fabulously and Jordan was alert and interested the whole time they were there.

After school cookery club have started to make their own Christmas Cakes, it will take a couple of weeks to complete.

Year 7 Yellow have been creating art work inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy. Last week they worked with leaves after a winter walk while this week they worked using sand to make their own patterns.

Mrs Lansom-Smith “Speech Bubble Group” have been working hard on their self-confidence and concentration skills in creating group stories then acting them out. The group are hoping their stories will be published for the whole of the school to use.