Redwood School

6th Form Internship Programme

Over the past two weeks parents and carers of those students who are participating in the Internship Programme have taken part in reviews! What incredibly positive review meetings these have been for all concerned – parents, students and employers also! Those youngsters are great ambassadors for the 6th form and are establishing themselves so well with prospective employers! Well done to the staff who have worked so hard to set these unique opportunities for the students.

Greater Manchester Winter Games

Well done to those youngsters who were part of `Team Rochdale’ at the Greater Manchester Winter Games at Sports City. A great day consisted of the opening ceremony hosted by Key 103 with over 2000 youngsters then taking part in 13 sporting competitions for various age ranges at world class sporting venues across Manchester! Our students took part in various swimming, rugby and other sports! A fantastic day for everybody and the weather was even good.

VIP Guide

Garry, Year 11 student who is our Sports Leader and Chair of the Student Council was selected by the Greater Manchester Organising Committee to act as a VIP tour guide of the various sporting venues of the GM games! This involved Garry meeting local mayors and making a speech to the VIP guests! What a great experience for Garry and all at Redwood are proud that he was selected! Well done Garry.

Showcasing Talents
Redwood certainly has got talent! That is the view after the various student and staff performances at the Showcase! Well done to all concerned.

After School, Youth Clubs provision

Clubs will start again on Monday 28 April after the Easter break. I hope those youngsters who are attending the Easter holiday club programme enjoy their activities

Easter Holiday

School will close on the 4 April for the Easter holiday break and will re-open on Tuesday 22 April. I hope that all our youngsters and families enjoy the holiday break.

KS3

15 students from 8/9 Blue and Purple Science groups are looking forward to taking part in the Eco-Leaf week with B&Q.

28 students from Redwood Secondary School took part in the Manchester Winter School Games; Teams from Primary, Secondary and Special Schools across the Country have won the right to compete in the Summer Games having qualified through their local leagues and tournaments. 13 sports taking place in 9 of Manchester’s world class sporting facilities. Key 103 hosted the opening ceremony for the Games at Sports City with over 2000 students attending.

The pop group ‘THE MEND’ who are Manchester based 4 piece vocal group performed some songs at the ceremony; this group appeared on Britain’s Got Talent. Some of our students managed to get their photographs taken with them and also get their autograph.

8 students represented Rochdale in the Swimming at the Aquatics Centre; the team swam brilliantly, most achieving their personal best swims and overall winners of Silver medals!! The rest of the group played in Tag Rugby tournaments; although they did not win they tried hard and made it difficult for the other teams to win; they made Redwood/Rochdale proud! The Man of the Match for the under 16’s went to Robert in Key Stage 3 and Sheraz in Key Stage 4.

This week saw the re-opening of “The Retreat” room designed to arouse the senses and offer opportunities for the relaxation and reflection.

KS4

As you know at Redwood we enjoy celebrating our students success, Ben received the Head Teacher‘s Award in recognition of his excellent contribution to the SSAT conference that was held here at Redwood. Even though he was very nervous Ben managed to deliver a PowerPoint presentation to a room full of adults. We were all very proud of him.

Peter took part in a sponsored silence to raise money for Red Aid. Now this may seem an easy task for some people ...but not for Peter. He managed a whole hour without speaking...a miracle and raised £37.50.

Students have been investigating renewable power sources in their Science lessons. Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity. 4U and 4M have been doing an experiment to find out where the best place would be to put solar panels in school.
Students have begun their Easter pottery projects - Easter bunnies and chicks.
Students have been busy creating their mothers day themed pottery; plaques and coasters.

The BBC School Report is an inclusive project which works with all types of schools, including a wide range of SEN and Special schools, and aims to engage young people of all abilities in news and the world around them by helping them make their own reports on stories which matter to them. Students reported on topics such as: Canalathon; John Willis; World Cup odds; Famous people achieving despite their difficulties; Olympic Funding cuts for Paralympic sports; Building a car at MANTRA; Commando Joes.

KS5

27 of our 6th Form students plus staff were given practical travel training and a special presentation by Metrolink Officials on the new link from Rochdale Town Centre. Students and staff were the first members of the public to use the brand new link which opened this week. Everyone had a great morning and were very impressed with the new link.

This week 6th Form students have been very busy preparing for the Enterprise Sale which takes place this week.

Saj’s group worked in a production line fashion to weigh the correct amount of sweets to pack in bags and then finish them with fancy ribbons. Everyone had a fab time and enjoyed the “factory ambiance”.

Matthew’s group made Carrot Cake using fresh carrots and Mandy’s group help pack Easter treats. The results looked Fab.

Jodie’s group prepared Pizza. The group took orders and then prepared pizzas using only the freshest ingredients.

Michael’s group have been making a selection of pies—cheese and onion, Halal meat and onion and meat and potato.

A big well done to Mark, Habib, Fahad, Brandon S, Kyle, Tom N, Jordan, Tom and Raymond who took part in a Rugby tournament on Tuesday. The lads played against others schools from Greater Manchester and managed to win 2 games and lose one. They showed off their silver medals with pride.