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• Weekly Attendance Winners

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  This term, every week we will be looking at children’s attendance and all those children who have 100% attendance for the week will be put in to a draw to win 10 Dojos. There will be one random winner from each class.  To ensure your child is entered into this weekly draw, all you have to do is make sure they are in school on time every day.  Thank you for your continued support.

  N	Haniya	2B	Rayyan	5B	Yusha
  RA	Abdul-Khalique	3A	Esme	6A	Husbaan
  RB	Jasmine	3B	Yunus	6B	Abi
  1A	Isaac	4A	Zayn
  1B	Samrah	4B	Oscar
  2A	Rumaysa	5A	Abdul-Hadi

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  

• School council survey

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  School council would be very grateful if you could please complete our short survey about a new ECO Refill Shop at Marland Hill, to reduce single use plastic waste and to help the children develop entrepreneurial skills.

   

  The link is here: https://forms.gle/z2EqowQ7HfrVnCgu6

   

• Year 2 Great Fire of London Workshop

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  On Wednesday 12^th February, year 2 will be having an exciting workshop in school linked to their Great Fire Of London topic. This will be a half day, practical, outdoors workshop, exploring learning linked to this topic.

   

  This is a  great opportunity for the children, and more information will be sent nearer the time about clothing for this day. School will be subsiding this, but we would appreciate it if you could make a voluntary contribution of £3. This can be done on parent mail by going to parent mail/shop/payments.

   

• Reading Afternoons

  Fri 24 Jan 2025

  Reading workshop afternoons will recommence in the new term. The dates are as follows:

   

  · Monday 27th January—Year 3

  · Monday 3rd February—Year 2

  · Monday 10th February—Year 1

   

  Tea/Coffee will be provided.

   

  We look forward to seeing you there!

   

• Menu week commencing 20th Jan

  Mon 20 Jan 2025
  

• Music After School Clubs

  Mon 20 Jan 2025

  We have some spaces available for the Music after school club. They are as follows:

   

  ·  Year 1 and 2: Voice and Percussion- 4pm

  finish.

  · Year 3 to Year 6: Samba Drumming and

  Recorder– 3.50pm finish.

   

  If you are interested then please email the school

  office: office@marlandhill.rochdale.sch.uk Places and limited and are on a first come first served basis.

   

• Head Together

  Fri 17 Jan 2025
  

• Year Group Focus - Year 6

  Fri 17 Jan 2025

  In English, we have been finding out about The Titanic. We are reading a book called 'The Titanic  Detective Agency'. We have carried out research and written a non-chronological report. Some of the children have made models as their homework.

   

  Our history topic is 'The Suffragettes'. We have found out about the role of women throughout history and the methods of two different suffragette unions. Some of the children have made rosettes and signs as their homework.

   

  Our science topic is 'Living things and their habitats'. We have been using the ipads to do research on helpful and harmful micro-organisms. 

   

  In computing, we are working on a programming unit. We are using Scratch to change variables in games.

   

  

• Parent Page

  Fri 17 Jan 2025

   

  The online world gives us a huge amount of information and services, but the scale of information also means that there is content that is inappropriate for children. What is or isn’t appropriate is up to parents and carers to decide.

   

  Parental controls allow you to block and filter upsetting or inappropriate content. They work across your WIFI, phone network, individual apps and devices. Parent controls can help you to:

   

  · Plan what time of day your child can go online and for how long. This is particularly useful at        bedtimes.

  · Create content filters to block apps that may have inappropriate content

  · Manage the content different family members can access.

   

  While parental controls are a useful took there are limitations so they should not be seen a whole       solution. Even if you have put restrictions in place on your child’s device, they won’t work if your child connects to a different WIFI. Parental controls are just part of a way to keep your children safe online. Other tips include:

   

  · Talk to your child. Explain why you are setting parental controls to keep them safe. Also let them know they can talk to you to discuss why certain settings are in place.

  · Set good strong passwords. On some parental controls you can set a password which prevents    settings and features from being changed.

  · Age needs to be considered. As children get older the restrictions and controls you use will change. Go at a pace that is appropriate for your child not pressure from your child because “everyone else is allowed”.

  · Content filters are never 100% effective. It is likely at some point your child will see inappropriate or upsetting content, it is important that they are able to talk to you about this.

   

  Setting up parental controls on:

   

  Home Broadband and WIFI

   

  Home internet providers can offer parental controls for your family. You can:

  · Use a filter from your internet provider to control the content that you and your child see. Some    providers allow different settings for each user.

  · Set up any device connected to your home broadband. How you do this depends on your provider and you’ll need to access your home router. You can ask your internet provider for help setting this up. Remember this only woks when your child is using the internet through WIFI, if they are using 4G or 5G etc you need to check the settings on their mobile device as well.

   

  Mobiles, tablets and computers

   

  All mobiles, tablets and computers have parental control settings which can differ between devices. These include:

   

  · Allowing or disallowing in-game purchases

  · Settings such as location settings and what information your child is sharing.

  · Wellbeing settings to help limit screen time.

   

  You can get more advice about setting up parental controls on different devices from your mobile provider and Homepage - UK Safer Internet Centre 

   

  On Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV etc, there are features available for parents all tied into an account. You can set content and privacy restrictions, prevent purchases,  allow or disallow apps and more. See what parental controls are available on Apple https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201304

   

• Captain’s Table

  Fri 17 Jan 2025

  Well done to the following children that have been selected to sit at the Captain’s Table.

  RA	Saad	3B	Florence
  RB	George	4A	Anaiyaah
  1A	Kayden	4B	Oscar
  1B	Ayaan	5A	Aribah
  2A	Dawud	5B	Connor
  2B	Aiza	6A	Amina
  3A	Izaan	6B	Lily