Redwood School

Parents Consultation meeting – What is replacing the Statement of Special Educational Need?

I will be writing to individual parents and carers to invite you to a meeting in November to discuss with you the plans to replace the Statement of Special Educational need which will start in September 2014. It is important that parents / carers understand the impact of the current legislation and how Redwood, the local authority and support services are working together in preparation.

Real Work Supported Internship Project based at Rochdale Infirmary

Nathan Statham:
1st Rotation Placement: Portering Department

Job role – To work within the portering department, undertaking various duties including sorting mail into different departments, franking, delivery and collection of mail.

Colleague comments: “Nathan is working really hard especially with recognising different departments. He is working really hard reading labels on pigeon holes to allocate post then taking them to the various departments. He is really enjoying his placement and gets on really well with the other porters.”

Nathan’s comments: “I am beginning to sort the mail into correct pigeon holes which is helping me with my reading. I love working with the porters going round all the different departments of the hospital.”

KS3

As part of 8/9 Yellow English topic (The Jolly Postman) the class have been dressing up as Post Delivery Person and delivered letters.

Faye, India, Lilie and Rahim went to Heaton Park to look at the autumn leaves and have their pictures taken. They then nipped to Sainsbury’s to look at their Halloween goodies!!
Year 7 Green as part of their History topic researched and made Roman bracelets it was a messy but fun task.

A big Thank You to Farzana for taking time out of her Eid celebrations to share her special day with 8/9 Red bringing in lots of lovely food to eat: to experience the taste of Eid. A combined team effort, the group made an Eid Mubarak card for Farzana.

7 Red spent a morning in Manchester, they walked over the stepping stones outside Selfridges and over to the Arndale. They spent time in the Lego shop making model witches. The lovely lady from the shop gave the pupils a free Lego kit and certificate. Big special thanks go to that lady in the Lego store for kindness, generosity and understanding. Next they went to the Apple store and played on the ipads, then into Waterstones relaxing area to choose and look at the books. After a busy morning they enjoyed snacks and drinks on the way back to school.

A great start for our ‘new & young’ team!

9 Redwood Pupils represent Rochdale AFC in the Greater Manchester Ability Counts League

The team was made up from mainly Key Stage 3 boys (2 year 7’s,2 year 8’s,3 year 9’s who where ably assisted by 2 year 11 boys).

We beat Man United, drew with Wigan but lost to Oakwood and Man City.

The Redwood footballers were; Callum C, Isaac K, Ubaid, David L, Dwayne A, Hamza A and Lewis I all from KS3, the rest of the team were KS4 boys - Ellis B and Sheraz H.

All performed really well and were well behaved! Many congratulations to all the boys. Let’s hope they manage to keep up the good work and continue to improve throughout the season.

KS4

It was time for KS4 students and their families and carers to celebrate at a special awards assembly which was held to give out certificates and prizes.

Bridging Year have been learning all about growing and caring for different plants over the last few weeks. Here they are doing a variety of gardening tasks.

SEB have been extremely busy this week! They have also visited the library to read stories, they have designed their own aprons and made chocolates to sell.

This week as part of working towards independence 4M & C visited the Central Library. They had a good look around all the different sections and read some books.

This week 4L have been learning how to cook basic foods to ensure they don't starve.

KS5

Eid Mubarak, to all our Muslim students and their family and friends who celebrated Eid ul Adha. We hope you enjoyed your special celebrations.

Ian, Tanzila and Kayliegh made sandwiches as part of the Real Work Project. The group have been preparing, chopping and packaging meal deals. The trio have been very busy this week with managing and serving 19 customers. Sarah said “the group worked really hard, they use their initiative and are very safety conscious in the kitchen. We have received excellent feedback from customers.”

Anees, Reece, Adeel, Mitchell and Iram travelled to Rochdale Town Centre to look at the different types of crossing as part of their safety session. This week the group identified and used a zebra crossing. Everyone behaved really well and demonstrated safe crossing on a busy road.

Assistant Headteacher in Key Stage 3

I am delighted to inform parents / carers that governors this week appointed Mr Rory O`Neill to the position of Key Stage 3 Assistant Headteacher with effect from January 2014.

Extended Schools Provision

Last week we had a total of 102 youngsters who attended the various after school clubs and 45 pupils attended the youth clubs provision. Should you require details of our activities programme please check the website at www.redwood-schoolcom.

School Closure

A reminder that school will be closed to pupils on Friday 25 October for staff training.