Redwood School

Redwood School staff and pupils with Head Teacher Stuart Pidgeon

It has been great seeing everybody back in school at the start of another exciting term for everybody connected with Redwood School. We will look to build on the recent Ofsted report during the summer term and continue to make the school an even better place for young people to learn, staff to work and parents and carers to visit.

Houses of Parliament

The school received a letter from our local MP at Westminster, Mr Simon Danczuk, congratulating everybody at Redwood School on our recent Outstanding' Ofsted inspection. Incidentally Redwood is one of only four schools within the authority to have achieved Outstanding' grades in each of the categories!

Olympics Countdown 'Inspiring a Generation'

As we passed the 100 days to the start of the Olympics, we will also be awarding various bronze, silver and gold certificates to pupils in our summer term assemblies as rewards for their work and contribution to the school. Watch this space for details of medal tables within Key Stages. Redwood Radio! - You can catch up on weekly pod casts recorded by Peter Heap, Year 10 Redwood Radio DJ, by logging onto the website www.redwood-school.com and follow the link.

Key stage 4 news

SEB have been putting plans together to produce a herb garden in their sensory area, they have also decided to carry on the Ofsted celebrations and are going to produce a short film. The contents of the film are a surprise and hopefully it will be put on the school website and as a podcast on the radio.

We are hoping to go to an exhibition at Touchstones to see a Chinese artist and their work. 4U have been working on the 5K’s in Sikhism as part of their work towards their AQA Unit award in Religion. They have been also been writing up their Easter news and doing some lovely drawings. A group went to Mandale Park and got their hands dirty in the grounds. The pupils were involved in coppicing and dead hedging.

Key stage 3 news

Many new topics have started including 8/9 Orange studying Romeo and Juliet, Yr7 blue designing and making clocks while in Mr Jacksons Art lesson pupils will be studying caricatures a posh name for cartoon character drawings. On top of this in food technology lessons 8/9 yellow will be creating and making their own sandwiches.

Yr 9 purple are working towards making evening meals for their families including vegetable crumble, soups and pizza. 8/9 purple will be entering an Olympic food competition, they have to design a menu consisting of traditional British Foods ‘all things British’ they will be looking at creating dishes for starters, mains and puddings.

6th form news

6th Form have been holding Annual Reviews. A big thank you to everyone who attended. We hope you found them both positive and informative. Declan J, Louis, Brett and Ryan have visited the Travelodge in Chadderton as part of their Travel and Tourism, Vocational Education. The group were shown around and learnt about how much it cost to stay there, how to book a room and what you get for your money. The group had a really good time and asked some well thought out and appropriate questions.

6th Form’s Thursday Evening Youth Club is expanding and has now even more places on offer with a huge range of activities to keep your son/daughter occupied from 6pm to 8pm every Thursday Evening. Activities on offer are Cycling, Art and Craft, Sports, Film Club, ICT, Cooking and many many more. The cost to attend is £2.

For the next 10 weeks school are piloting a pick up and drop off transport service. For just an additional charge of £1 you can now be picked up and dropped off from one of the 5 areas in and around Rochdale.

To access this transport service you must book online and as it is offered on a first come first served basis you must register on a weekly basis. Please log on to our school clubs website www.redwoodclubs.com and click on the online booking icon or contact David Butterworth on 01706 751893 for further details.