Redwood School

Redwood School

Congratulations to all the students who represented the school at the indoor county rowing championships yesterday at Robins Park Stadium in Wigan. As ever our students were excellent ambassadors for the school and their performances were tremendous. Their performance at Kingsway School secured our selection to the County finals at Robin Park in which 26 schools took part. Pupils were chosen due to the fantastic effort and attitude they have shown during their PE sessions, lunch times and after school club sessions. Our pupils and staff really enjoyed the event – everyone returned home exhausted from rowing, cheering or assisting during the hectic team relay events. The pupils effort and performance was a joy to watch. Their hard work was rewarded with some fantastic results and a great clutch of medals.

February half term holiday club - Thank you to those parents and carers who have expressed a wish to have a place at the clubs. David Butterworth, Sports Programme Development Co-ordinator, will be issuing details to families in the near future to confirm arrangements for the week.

Skiing at the Chill Factory -Governors were recently shown a DVD of the activities some of our youngsters took part in at the Chill Factory before Christmas – it was excellent and the young people had great fun ! A further set of evening sessions is being arranged after half term – watch this space and take part in this great opportunity!

Student Council Meeting -A meeting will be held this week with staff and students discussing how pupils can give their views on how good the quality of lessons are in each key stage!

Parental Survey - Would parents and carers please return the surveys. The survey can be completed and returned to school or completed on line. Thanks for your support.

Key Stage 3 News—Students have participated in horseriding, making boxes and clocks in the Design and Technology Workshop, a magical mystery tour, shopping to make table resources for the Lion King and swimming sessions. A group also had an opportunity to attend a boxing session with Hamer Boxing Club. Another group visited St Edwards School to see the pigs they have in the classroom and other animals they look after, whilst others visited Bury Market as part of History, Now and Then.

Students of the week—Rachel ,Shezad and Aiden-Well done!

6th form Travel and Tourism group, Samin, Lee, Karen and Gemma enjoyed a visit from Chris Harvey, to give a talk on his experiences as a holiday rep based in Fuerteventura, Spain. The group learned about the role and took part in some role play as cabin crew. The group had a fabulous time and would like to thank Chris for giving up his time and coming in to chat to them.

3rd years transition programme is going really well. This term students are concentrating on taster sessions at Oldham College. Small groups have been out with Jodie to look around and see what the college is offering and taken part in some of their sessions. Jodie said that all groups have been great and found these sessions most useful. The students have been a credit to 6th form. Well done 3rd years!

Tanya has been supporting Carol in the kitchen to cook student lunches. Tanya has been helping put the shopping away, preparing lunch and serving. Carol said that she loves having her in, as she is an excellent help. Well done Tanya.