Rodrigo, where do I start. I had the pleasure of working with you for numerous years in the sixth form. Your smile, laugh and cheeky ways brought light to my life every day. You taught me so much as a teaching assistant whilst having lots of fun along the way, I cannot thank you enough for that. Your influence made me who I am today and made me even more passionate to work with those who have complex needs. 

You were a lover of all the brand new trainers and was well known for it. I remember a time that i checked what size shoe you were and you were the same size as me. I took off your shoe and pretended to put it on, you couldnt breathe for laughing.

I also remember a time that I dropped something at the side of you and I bent down to pick it up and SMACK, you hit me right in the face! You were belly laughing uncontrollably, but that was just you, if anything was to go wrong, you would always see the funny side.

There were so many good times I could go on forever. 

Your fabulous sense of humour, your smile and those eyelashes will be sadly missed. You were such a special young man that will be missed forever. You brought so much light to everyone's life and if anyone had the pleasure to meet you, they would always walk away with a smile on their face. 

Tomorrow we lay you to rest , but this is not goodbye as you will live on in our memories.

RIP our beautiful man, sweet dreams, until we meet again ❤️

Thoughts are with the Lourenco family at this sad time.

Lots of love

Gabbie and the Redwood Staff xxx