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• Poster Compeition Winner!

  Thu 30 Jun 2016

  We are delighted to announce that Zaara Ali, Yr 6 won a competition organised through Rochdale Council where Children were asked to create posters that highlighted the negative impact of smoking for the chance to see their artwork on display and win a family cinema ticket.

   

  Zaara's clever design showing a child copying a smoking parent through a mirror image.

   

  Rochdale Borough Children's Council teamed up with the public protection team to run the school poster competition to encourage parents to stop smoking near their children.

   

  The winning poster will now be displayed in GP surgeries, libraries and other venues across the borough, alongside the stop smoking contact number to encourage residents to quit for good.

   

  More than 237 entries were received from schools across the borough, which highlighted the health risks associated with smoking, such as cancer and how it affects children.

   

  Click here for further information.

   

• Children's Champion

  Thu 30 Jun 2016

  On 27th June 2016, we attended a very special event at the Town Hall, this was attended by many dignitaries alongside the Mayor and Lady Mayoress.

  
  The event was the election of the new “Children’s Champion.”
  Zara Shah was giving her final speech as the current children’s for 2015/16 and welcoming the new “Children’s Champion for 2016/17, this is Hannah Nazir and she received 1,750 votes we are all very proud of Hannah and her massive achievement.

   

  Well done!
   

  

• Community Cohesion

  Wed 29 Jun 2016

  On 29th June 2016, we completed our final Community Cohesion session this was held at Rochdale Town Hall we enjoyed a beautiful lunch in the Reception Room followed by the speeches in the Council Chamber.  Lots of dignitaries attended the Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Councillor Janet Emsley, Mark Robinson Assistant Director of Planning and Development, Andrew Riley – Greater Manchester Police, Sandra Bowness – Assistant Director Early Help & Schools, Gail Hopper – Director of Children’s Services to name but a few. 

   

  This year the project has included:
  •         How to develop good relationships and respect differences between people
  •         Learned about the role of a Peacemaker
  •         Worked alongside a town planner to create a “New Town”
  •         Voiced opinions on how to improve their local area
  •         Written speeches to deliver at the Town Hall on how to improve Rochdale

   

  Each group delivered their speech with confidence and the attendees responded to all points raised.

  
  It was a fantastic day and we are all very proud of Marland, Hamer and Rochdale 6th Form College for highlighting and trying to change issues within Rochdale.

  

• Art Award

  Sat 25 Jun 2016

  Arts Award Explore

  
  A group of gifted and talented Year 6 children have recently achieved the official award of Arts Award Explore which is awarded by the Arts Council. These children are Sehar, Sam, Lucy, Holly and Zara.

  
  They visited Touchstones Art Gallery in Rochdale where they were shown around the ‘Natural Makers’ exhibition by ceramic artist Sue Hudson before taking part in her bespoke workshop ‘Slips and Grogs’. Inspired by other art work in the galleries, the children researched Georgia O’Keeffe.

   

  Local artist Rosie Hunt worked with the children exploring printing techniques (mono and screen printing), batik and acrylic texturing. Inspired by batik effects they went on to research Jackson Pollock. They also visited Matthew Moss High School for several sessions to explore clay modelling techniques.

  
  The children took an active part in these activities creating their own responses, reflecting on their work and were inspired to create an individual arts piece. Finally, they presented their arts journey to their class peers.

  
  We are all very proud of their achievements!

  

• IPLCN Football Competition Year 6

  Fri 24 Jun 2016

  The Year 6's did a great job of getting to the semi finals of the IPLCN Football Competition but unfortunately lost out on penalties.

  The children played a great game and represented the school brilliantly. Well done!

  

• Rochdale Diversity Award Finalists

  Fri 24 Jun 2016

  Rochdale Diversity Awards 2016

   

  Marland Hill, working alongside Hamer Primary School and Rochdale Sixth Form College were delighted to be nominated for the Rochdale Diversity Awards 2016 by Mr Yasin Khan, Equality and Community Cohesion Officer for Rochdale Borough Council.

   

  Rochdale Diversity Awards are now in their 5th Year and aim to recognise and promote positive role models from diverse backgrounds and organisations to empower and inspire the wide breadth of communities within Rochdale. 

   

  We were finalists in the "Diversity in Education Award", along with Wardleworth Community Learning Centre and Maker Space Project.  Representatives from the Community Cohesion Project attended the Town Hall on Thursday 26th May for the Awards Evening and although we didn't win, we did have the opportunity to celebrate the fabulous work that we do and it was lovely for this to be recognised by so many. 

   

  Please see our Community Cohesion page for more information on what the projects have involved.

  

• Revealing the Roch

  Mon 20 Jun 2016
  On Saturday 25th June Rochdale is holding a celebration to mark the re-opening of the River Roch in Rochdale town centre. Please go to rochdale.gov.uk/events for more details.

  

• Water Safety

  Mon 06 Jun 2016
  Please ensure that your children know about keeping safe around open water. We have talked about being safe around water at school. Please find some useful information below or go to http://www.rospa.com/leisure-safety/ for more information.