Redwood School

Redwood School

Key 103 at Redwood - Students in key stage 4 had the opportunity to visit the Key 103 studios in Manchester to learn about the many aspects of preparing a radio show. Their work is now on line at http://www.key2radio.com/school/redhillradio and photos and information will be added. Many thanks to Mr Barnes who is leading this exciting development.

A big congratulations and well done goes to two of our post 16 students, Daniel W and Rebecca who attended Rochdale Town Hall to receive an Achievement Award from the Mayor. Well done!!

Tesco Vouchers We are collecting vouchers for sports equipment—may we ask you to please send your vouchers into school. Thank you.

Key stage 4 has now uploaded the first radio show to www.key2radio.com, and will soon be adding photographs and information to the radio station’s webpage. It is our intention to prepare a radio show each week and upload it every Friday, starting on the 25 March. The focus for the station will very much be Redwood. As the show develops we would expect to have song suggestions from pupils or staff that wish to contribute, and we will be reporting on events across the school.

KS4 students attended Skills NW Careers event at the Bolton Arena

At Rathbones the Vocational Education group have completed building their Go-Karts and raced against each other in a battle of the fastest. The pupils loved every minute and they were very competitive.

Key Stage 3 News -Another busy week in the department—TA’s were lucky enough to escape to Springside to view their displays whilst pupils have visited Wardle High School to participate in Playground 2 Podium Athletics, pupils in the Lilac Room went on a mystery tour, other pupils have had an opportunity to go horse riding and Year 8/9 Orange made egg cress sandwiches with the cress that they hadd grown.

Pupils from Yr6 at Newlands and from Mainstream schools were welcomed as part of their transition programme. They met their new teachers and looked at the class rooms they will be in from September. We also welcomed Shaun Jukes back as he visited with pupils from Sir Tom Finney School in Preston. Thomas D attended a ‘Farm Project’ with Fairbridge.

Students of the week: Imran, Kevin and Luke .

Sixth form news - a number of students from Redwood sixth Form have been involved in a community development project in association with Rochdale Youth Service. The students have been attending Middleton Arena every Friday night since January and participating in a range of healthy lifestyle activities such as swimming, trampolining, 5 a side football, table tennis, the use of the mobile youth bus and shokk gym are a few of the many activities the students enjoy each week. In addition to this some students attended a showcase event where young people from Middleton displayed a range of talents in front of a 400 strong audience. Throughout the project and the showcase event they have made many new friends, learned a range of new skills, enjoyed and achieved positive outcomes.

Dave from the Rochdale Youth Service said “All students have displayed positive behaviour and enthusiasm for the project and have acted as fantastic ambassadors for 6th Form.”