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• Friday 4 October 2024 Horticulture Since returning in September, we have been enjoying the fruits of last year’s hard work. It is Harvest time outside and our growing spaces have been very productive.
• Friday 13 September 2024 Makaton at Redwood On Monday, we celebrated our 'Communication value' and shared our most commonly used Makaton words and actions.
• Friday 19 July 2024 Prom 2024 Our Leavers Prom was the final celebration for our Year 11 pupils and was thoroughly enjoyed by everybody! They all turned up in style and enjoyed a wonderful 3-course meal surrounded by their friends and Redwood staff who supported them throughout their years with us.
• Friday 12 July 2024 Playground Proms concert On Thursday 4th July, we enjoyed an amazing concert performed by Graffiti Classics from Playground Proms. They played a variety of classical music with a twist, giving us the opportunity to dance and get close up to the instruments. Lots of fun was had by all!
• Friday 21 June 2024 STEM Event STEMunity organised an amazing event at The Portsmouth Academy. Professionals from RC Vision, The Royal Navy Atlantic rowing team and The Drone Rules provided 3 interactive activities. The pupils taking STEM as an option in key stage 4 attended the event to celebrate their success in completing the qualification and to have exposure to STEM careers.
• Thursday 6 June 2024 D-Day Celebrations The highlight the week has been our D-Day celebrations! A group of pupils attended the National Memorial Service at Southsea Common on Wednesday 5th June to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day and even got to see some of the royal family members!
• Thursday 16 May 2024 Mayor Making
• Thursday 9 May 2024 Ferny Crofts Residential Our Year 9 and 10 pupils had a wonderful time at the Ferny Crofts Activity Centre on residential. They learned lots of new skills and had lots of fun, taking part in a range of really exciting activities throughout the week including skiing and high-ropes! The group also took a trip to Beaulieu Motor Museum!
• Thursday 2 May 2024 Fareham College Taster Session (Hairdressing) On Monday, 6 year 10 and 11 pupils went to Fareham College to take part in a Taster session in Hairdressing. Everyone was quite nervous but once they started they were incredible. All pupils were lead through how to wash, blow dry and straighten hair and also how to use the straighteners to curl hair. They all enjoyed themselves and the course tutor was very impressed with them all. Well done, and good luck to our future hairdressers.
• Friday 26 April 2024 Portsmouth Student Leadership Network Event It was great to attend the second Portsmouth Student Leadership Network event with some of the year 8 pupils. The pupils got to work alongside other secondary schools in Hampshire and learn some great leadership skills such as positive communication skills and the importance of understanding anfd wokring as part of a team. They won a prize for the teamwork tasks and stoof up and made a small presentation in front of the other pupils. Well done Year 8 - you represented Redwood Park Academy fantastically!
• Thursday 7 March 2024 Moor Farm On Thursday, Museum and Mountbatten class visited Moor Farm, supported by the Countryside Trust. Pupils learned about the workings of a dairy farm and sustainable farming. The pupils absolutely loved the day! They got to meet the herd, see how milk is taken from a cow and the journey of products made from milk. The children were particularly excited about touching the calves. At the end of the day they’d made such good friends with a calf that it escaped and tried to come back to Redwood with us!
• Friday 2 February 2024 Dance Live 2024
• Monday 15 January 2024 Aspirations Week - We need YOU! Are you an ex Redwood Pupil? Do you have a success story to share?
• Wednesday 6 December 2023 Maisie meets the Queen It was a right Royal Christmas party for one of our pupils in Year 9.
• Monday 20 November 2023 Supporting Children in Need
• Friday 17 November 2023 Redwood Becomes Music Mark School
• Tuesday 17 October 2023 Redwood Visits All England Tennis Club Our Sports Leaders visited the All England Tennis Club, Wimbledon Inspiration Event today where they worked alongside other pupils from across the country. They had the chance to visit the Tennis museum, visit Centre court and take part in team challenges.
• Tuesday 10 October 2023 #HelloYellow Team Redwood supported World Mental Health Day today and pupils and staff had the chance to wear yellow, to support the #HelloYellow Young Minds event.
• Monday 2 October 2023 KS4 Visit Careers Fayre
• Friday 29 September 2023 Annual Sponsored Walk
• Wednesday 6 September 2023 New School Year
• Thursday 20 July 2023 Video newsletter - 20th July
• Friday 14 July 2023 Video newsletter - 13th July
• Friday 7 July 2023 NetZero for young people Today Redwood Park attended an amazing conference organised by #Unloc.
• Monday 3 July 2023 Video Newsletter - 23rd June
• Monday 19 June 2023 Video Newsletter - 16th June
• Friday 16 June 2023 KS3 Pride Assembly We are celebrating the month of Pride this week at Redwood.
• Friday 9 June 2023 Video Newsletter - 9th June
• Monday 5 June 2023 MFL Week For this term’s MFL Week we explored Norway.
• Friday 26 May 2023 Video Newsletter - 26th May

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