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• Easter Egg Competition

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  School council are selling blank Easter eggs for 50p for the children to design and return. School council will be voting on the winners after the closing date.

   

  

• Weekly Attendance Winners

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  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	Ahmad	2B	Toby	5B	Logan
  RA	Wyatt	3A	Zaky	6A	Mckenzie
  RB	Faith	3B	Hasnain	6B	Abeera
  1A	Rumaysa	4A	Abdul-Hadi	6C	Matas
  1B	Imaan	4B	Hibah
  2A	Kadie	5A	Ibrahim

  

• Parents Meetings

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  Thank you to parents for attending parents meetings this week and to all our staff as well.

   

  

• Driving/Parking near school

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  Please can parents take extra care when driving towards school, particularly on the approach to Roch Mills Crescent from Roch Valley Way. Please can you be really mindful of your speed as there are lots of pedestrians in this area at drop off and pick up times. Please can parents also be mindful to local residents and not block/park on driveways.

   

• School Dinners & New Menu

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  There will be a new school menu that will start after Easter – week commencing 15th April., which will be our Spring/Summer 2024 menu. Please see page 6.

  If you wish for your child’s meal pattern to change after Easter you must email the school: office@marlandhill.rochdale.sch.uk no later than Thursday  28th March.

  A reminder that meal patterns are set per half and cannot be swapped or changed in between.

   

  

• Menu week commencing 18th March

  Mon 18 Mar 2024
  

• Year Group Focus - Year 3

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  The children in Year 3 have a had a very busy week full of assessments. All of the children have worked extremely hard to show just how much progress they have made throughout the year.

   

  However, as well as the work they have put into completing their assessments, the children have also celebrated Science Week by making their own time keeping pendulums and investigating how these can be made to swing faster and slower. In doing this, the children looked at the effect of both adding and removing weight and lengthening and shortening the string used to create the pendulum. As the photos below suggest, this was activity that the children very much enjoyed. In our regular science lessons, the children have been thinking about magnetic and non-magnetic materials and using a selection of magnets to sort these into groups.

   

  In addition to all the excitement caused by creating pendulums, the children, in Design Technology, thought about designing their own moving monster (or mummy as the case will be) using shape nets to create the sarcophagus that the mummy will eventually rise from. Keep your eyes peeled for the finished products arriving home.

   

  

• Local Area Walk

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  On Thursday 21^st March Year 1 will be going on a local area walk. They will be walking to the local post office to post a letter and looking at human and physical features in the local area. Children will need to wear their school uniform, an outdoor coat and suitable footwear. 

   

  Thank You.

   

• Spelling Bee

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  Yahya attended the spelling bee at Matthew Moss today and did very well reaching the 3rd round.

  Well done Yahya!

   

  

• Connect Song Festival

  Fri 15 Mar 2024

  The Connect Song Festival comprised of 8 schools from the network - Heybrook, Moorhouse, Springside, Hamer, Norden, Marland Hill, Belfield and Spotland. Around 180 children took part in this year's song festival which had the theme 'Happiness'. Three whole school songs were performed and accompanied by musicians from the Rochdale Music Service.

   

  Schools had chosen and prepared one song to the other schools. It was a fantastic morning of singing enjoyed by all. During the Summer Term an Instrumental Festival for Connect schools will be held at Marland Hill, where children will get the opportunity to share and celebrate their musical  achievements.