Redwood School

Some of our 3rd year students are on the Real Work Supported Internship Project based at Rochdale Infirmary. Every week we will do a profile on each Intern to let you know how they are getting on in their jobs.

Name of Intern: Sophie Wrigley

1st Rotation Placement: Café Aroma in the Rochdale Infirmary

Job role – My jobs include preparation of food, serving and processing customers orders and restocking of fridges.

Colleague comments: “Sophie is doing exceptionally well; she is now taking orders and delivering them to the customers. She loves shouting out the orders. Her cleaning skills are out of this world even though it’s a task she isn’t fond of.”

Sophie’s comments: “I love the internship programme and my job at the café. All the staff are really friendly and helpful.” 

Student Council elections

The meeting of the new Student Council took place this week. It was an excellent first session with the elected members all contributing to our discussions. I feel this year is going to continue in the tradition of a strong and enthusiastic pupil voice at Redwood. For details of the meeting please go to the school website!

Key Stage 3 Parents Evening

A reminder to parents and carers of students in Years 7, 8 and 9 that Parents Evening will take place on Tuesday 22nd October, 3.45pm – 6pm. It will be an opportunity to discuss with staff how your child has settled into the new class and the progress he / she is making.

Eid Celebrations

On behalf of everybody at Redwood School I would like to take this opportunity to wish our parents, pupils and staff families a very Happy Eid next week! Enjoy your family celebrations!

`Restart a Heart Day` 16 October

This year sees the first Europe wide `Restart a Heart’ awareness day on Wednesday 16th October. This initiative is aimed at making emergency life support a priority with the public. For more details and a downloadable introduction video please go to www.life-saver.org.uk

Extended Schools Provision

Last week we had a total of 138 youngsters who attended the various after school and evening youth clubs provision. Should you require details of our activities programme please check the website at www.redwood-school.com.

Key Stage 4

Enterprise Scheme
4J, Trish and Lily Halton took a trip to Park Cake Bakery, to shop for supplies for their ‘Special Occasions’ Enterprise scheme. They got some lovely cakes and flap jacks.
Jack and Sahil sold bacon butties to staff for their class enterprise.
Class 4B have set up’ accessories’ which will be open for business, selling wonderful jewellery.

SEB have signed up to Terracycle to enable us to raise money for school by recycling biscuit wrappers. Please can you send any you have into school.

The Middleton CLC group go each week to study media. Over the next few weeks they will be making a making movie and learning how to add music to it. Fun media times. 

This weeks KS4 PE achievements included:

Leon, Jordan and Rachel accessing rebound therapy for the first time this year. They all understood and communicated higher and lower to the group and had a great time!

Gymnastics lunchtime club — Jolene and Jordan have started to create a routine of different dance moves and shapes.

SEB - Abigail thoroughly enjoyed splashing about in the hydrotherapy pool, Alex has been building up his endurance walking around the hall along with Charlotte and Aisha. Hassan has shown great communication during P.E, Jason has enjoyed improving his coordination using bats and balls, and Kevin has been working on his flexibility.

Key Stage 3

Key Stage 3 had a visit from Tim “The Bug Man”; he works for the Lancashire wildlife trust. He brought in Cockroaches, Katydid, Lizard-Bearded Dragon, snake and a tortoise; many groups had the opportunity to see the wonderful creatures.

Suzanna from Bagbooks came into visit 8/9 Red, Orange and Yellow; she told some lovely interactive stories. They included “The Haircut”, “Lost in London” and “Going to the Dentist”.

8/9 Red are learning maths concepts through ‘games from the past’. They have taken part in a beetle drive and are currently exploring the concepts of number and probability through Flounders’.

Katelan, Jack & Ethan were ‘SPOOKED’ when looking at the Halloween display in Gordon Riggs. Ethan soon became brave and touched the “Scary Full Sized Man.”

Pupils have been looking forward to finally using the ‘New Food Technology’ room. They have been learning everyday life skills and of course Health & Safety! Pupils enjoyed making a hot drink and toast…yummy.

Year 7 Red went to Hebden Bridge into the Town Hall café; they bought some bread too and fed 5,000 ducks. Finally enjoying traditional chips on the way back to school

KS5

In Creative Art the students have been learning how to draw facial features – mouth and noses. The students all worked really well and created some fantastic pieces of artwork.

In Sensory Interaction Cooking, the group focus was strawberries. The students tasted strawberry milkshakes, strawberry jelly, fresh strawberries and tinned strawberries and the students all made individual strawberry trifles. They all loved the trifles.