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• Christmas Dinner / Christmas Jumper Day

  Fri 30 Nov 2018

  This year’s Christmas Jumper /Christmas Dinner Day will be held on Thursday 20th Dec. If your child would like to order a Christmas dinner, please send £2.15 into the school office by 14th December. We look forward to seeing some very festive jumpers!

   

  

• Reading University

  Fri 30 Nov 2018

  The Inspirational Reading University launch for selected Year 4 children was held on Tues 27th Nov at Number One Riverside. This was the first time the participating schools met and shared a book. We are looking forward to sharing more books, and poems and working together in the future!

   

  

• Community Cohesion

  Fri 23 Nov 2018

  Our group of Community Cohesion children went to Rochdale Sixth Form College on Tuesday to have a look around. They had a fantastic time with other pupils from Hamer school and the college students.

   

  

• EYFS Christmas Concert

  Fri 23 Nov 2018

  This year our Nursery and Reception classes will be performing ‘Say Hello To Little Jo’ for their Christmas Concerts. They will be performing to parents on Tuesday 11th December at 1:30pm and Wednesday 12th December at 9:30am.   The children and staff have worked extremely hard and we look forward to welcoming our parents and carers to the show. We hope you enjoy it!

  

• Prize Draw!

  Fri 16 Nov 2018
  Thank you to all our parents and carers who took the time to complete a free school meals application form in the last couple of weeks.  For every child whose form was returned, we issued a raffle ticket to win a Kindle Fire HD!  On Monday 12th November, all the raffle tickets were put into a hat and a winning ticket was drawn.  We are happy to announce the winner of the prize was Adam Whelan!  Congratulations to him and thank you everybody for your support.

  

• Year 6 Booster Sessions

  Fri 16 Nov 2018

  Our year 6 teachers will be holding ‘booster’ session classes from next week, in the morning before school starts. If your child can benefit from these classes you will receive a letter home with your child. We encourage parents to allow children to attend these classes, which are designed to boost their confidence in a given subject and help support them in their upcoming SATS examinations. Please return the permission slip to your child’s teacher or to the school office as soon as possible so that your child does not miss out of these lessons.

   

• Children In Need Day

  Fri 09 Nov 2018

  It is Children in Need on Friday 16th November. Children are invited to come to school in spotty clothes or pyjamas for a donation of £1. All money raised will be going to Children in Need.

   

  

• IPLCN Ashworth Valley School Council Day

  Fri 09 Nov 2018

  Our Year 5 school council members took part in an activity day at Ashworth Valley on Wednesday, alongside children from other IPLCN schools. They made tea-lights, and took part in archery, shelter building, go-karting and even had crumpets by a campfire! Great fun was had by everyone.

   

  

• Archery

  Tue 06 Nov 2018

  Well done to the children that took part in the Archery Festival on Tuesday. They cam second overall. Well done!

   

  

• Science Week

  Tue 06 Nov 2018

  Next week, week commencing 12^th November, children at Marland Hill will be undertaking activities for Science Week. During this week your child will be walking to the forest school site, just down the road on Roch Valley Way. They will take part in an outdoor learning session to supplement the class based science session. Your child will need suitable clothing and footwear to be in school all of this week, a waterproof coat, warm jumper, wellies or walking boots. Please can you put wellies/outdoor shoes in a plastic bag with your child’s name clearly labelled. All children will be taking part so this extra footwear is essential as the woods will be very muddy.

   

  On Thursday 15^th and Friday 16^th November children will be taking part in science workshops. We will be visited by real scientists who will work with the children to do hands on science experiments. We are asking parents to contribute £1 per child to help towards the cost of this visit.

   

  Children may get some science homework next week and we encourage children to bring in examples of science experiments/projects to show their class. There will be prizes for the best ones