Redwood School

Redwood School

The decision to cancel the transportation for Redwood’s students on Monday 21 January was out of our control and made by the transport department at 7.20am The school immediately put into action our procedures for notifying parent/ carers.

However, it appears a certain amount of misinformation was inappropriately communicated to parents. Redwood remained opened and fully staffed, many parent/ carers chose to contact school and made their own choice as to whether their child attended. We can only apologise if you were under the wrong impression, the decision to close Redwood lies with the Headteacher who endeavours to ensure that Redwood remains open at all times. Should another situation like Monday arise it is recommended that parent/ carers look to Redwood for instructions. These are via: Text messaging service, The website, Twitter and Facebook.

There have been fabulous activities taking place – a real buzz around the school. We had a team of consultants in school on Tuesday meeting pupils and staff and taking part in a variety of lessons in each department and key stage 3 assembly. The feedback was very positive indeed!

County Rowing Championships

Following the rowing trials last week, I am delighted to let you know that 18 of our students were selected to represent Rochdale in the disability county rowing championships which took place in Wigan on Wednesday. What a fantastic performance by our team of rowers who had the following fantastic results in the various races : Dwayne A Gold , Frank K Gold , Brandon S Gold, Gary O Silver, Sajjida Silver, Kyle C Silver, Ellis B Bronze, Patrick Y Bronze, Year 8 Boys Silver, Year 11 Boys Gold – well done to everybody who took part! You are great ambassadors for the school!

February half term clubs - Applications can now be made for a place at the half term club by accessing the school website.

After School Clubs & Youth Clubs - All the after school and youth clubs started this week. For a full list of the clubs and to see the recently produced clubs brochure, please visit www.redwood-school.com.

Parent Classes – Signalong Programme

Parents and carers have the opportunity to take part in the foundation ‘Signalong’ programme each Saturday morning, 10.00am – 12.00pm, from 26 January to 23 March. 

Key stage 3 news:
Year 7 Green went to the Roman Fort at Castlefield in Manchester as part of their History Topic. They also visited Manchester United Football ground.

Year 8/9 Orange made some delicious French onion soup during their French class. A mixed group of 7, 8 and 9 pupils went to Asda in Pilsworth — Rahim did ‘shopping trolley training’ he had to negotiate the supermarket aisles with the trolley — he did very well!

Year 7 Red has been looking at ‘old fashioned’ washing using a dolly tub. The resources were borrowed from Touchstones, this links together their English and History topics. A selection of pupils attended the Greater Manchester County Rowing finals — Redwood did very well bringing home 10 medals – Bronze for Ellis, Gold for Dwayne, Silver for Sajjada, Gold for Frank and Bronze for Patrick.

KS3 boys relay race came second earning them Silver medals. Ben A has started horse riding lessons — he was very good—he said ‘it was good, I trotted!’

Key stage 4 news: SEB had a super time this week using kitchen measures to make buns. They also made up a song to accompany their weekly news. A new group have started the Animal Care course at Hopwood Hall College. Some students were brave enough to hold the snake!

4C have been making their own puppets in puppetry lessons during their new Personal Progress unit ‘All about me’. Some pupils have been experimenting with different mixes of mortar in science to see how strong they are. The Personal Progress group made a birthday cake for Abbey using a bread maker. Ben helped to make a cake for Aiden in SSC. Both cakes were beautiful! This week the Bridgers have taken part in role play activities on ‘How to be a good friend’. The activity was a great success proving that the Bridgers are able to rely on each other.

6th form news Class 5B have been exploring health and beauty in Vocational Education and as an introduction to this they have had a relaxing massage, fragrance sampling sessions and played sports in class. This week they visited the Middleton Arena, where they saw lots of sports facilities and people keeping fit.

The Travel and Tourism vocational education group are planning a visit to a visitor attraction as part of their accreditation. Dominic H, Maddiya, Maria, Tom N and Joshua have had to work as a team and chose a local attraction to visit and then plan the whole trip out with minimal support from staff.

The Retail group have made cheese and onion and meat and potato pasties. The group are identifying retail outlets and comparing their product prices. Last week the group decided on a product they wanted to make and sell within 6th Form. They went round and took orders from staff, bought ingredients and this week they made and sold over 60 pasties.

Saj and Carol’s Baking groups have been making flapjacks this week. The group worked in pairs weighing, stirring, baking, and also washing up and putting away. The sessions are always lots of fun. Well done to you all. The end results looked and tasted delicious.