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• Breakfast Club

  Fri 21 Nov 2025

  Well done to Alaya and Zayn for being chosen as Breakfast Club Superstars! 

   

  

• Menu week commencing 17th November

  Mon 17 Nov 2025
  

• Parent Page: Headlice Important Information

  Fri 14 Nov 2025

  How to treat head lice

   

  Head lice and nits are very common in young children and their families. They are not caused by dirty hair. They are picked up by head-to-head contact. They cannot jump and crawl from head to head a long strands of hair. You can catch them early by wet combing regularly and using a detection comb.

   

  How to get rid of head lice:

  Tying long hair up and keeping hair neat will help stop the lice crawling from head to head. 

  Treat head lice as soon as you spot them. You can treat head lice without seeing a GP.

  Check everyone you live with, or have close contact with, and start treating anyone who has head lice on the same day.

   

  Lice and nits can be removed by wet combing. You can buy a special fine-toothed comb (detection comb) online or from pharmacies to remove head lice and nits.

  wash hair with ordinary shampoo, apply lots of conditioner (any conditioner will do), comb the whole head of hair, using the detection comb, from the roots to the ends

   

  It usually takes about 10 minutes to comb short hair, and 20 to 30 minutes for long, frizzy or curly hair. When you've finished combing the hair, comb through all the hair again for a second time.

  Do wet combing on days 1, 5, 9 and 13 to catch any newly hatched head lice. Check again that everyone's hair is free of lice on day 17.

   

  If wet combing has not worked or is not suitable, you could try a medicated lotion or spray. These kill head lice in all types of hair, and you can buy them from pharmacies, supermarkets or online.

  Head lice should die within a day. Some lotions and sprays come with a comb to remove dead lice and eggs. Some treatments need to be repeated after a week to kill any newly hatched lice.

  If lotions or sprays do not work, speak to a pharmacist about other treatments.

   

• Year Group Focus—Year 5

  Fri 14 Nov 2025

   

  The children have made a wonderful start to Autumn 2, diving into our new topics. Over the half term, lots of children produced some amazing pieces of homework all about South America and deforestation. The children have loved having their work up on display for everyone to see and it has really brightened the classroom.

   

  The children completed their final science experiment on materials, investigating for themselves what affects the rate of sugar cubes dissolving. The children had to create their own enquiry question and use the materials provided to decide how they would answer their question, creating tables to showcase their results. The children massively enjoyed having full control of their learning and lots of interesting discoveries were made as a result!

   

  The children also completed their informal letter to a family or friend explaining that they are unfortunately in prison for a crime they didn't commit! The children really loved getting into character for this writing piece and thought up some very creative reasons as to why they had been arrested! 

   

  

• School photographs

  Fri 14 Nov 2025

  We are still waiting to  receive the proofs from the photographs taken on Monday. We will send these home with the children once received.

   

• New Nursery and Reception

  Fri 14 Nov 2025

  If any parents are considering applying to our  nursery or reception classes next year, and would like to look round school our next open day will be on Wednesday 26th November at 9.30am, if you would like to  attend please email the school   

  office: office@marlandhill.rochdale.sch.uk

  Thank you.

   

• Reading Afternoons

  Fri 14 Nov 2025

  On Friday 21st November there will be a Nursery reading drop in session.

  For morning nursery the time will be 9am-9.30am and for the afternoon nursery it will be 2.30-3.00pm.

  If you wish to attend, please can morning nursery parents come to the nursery doors and afternoon nursery parents come to the office.

   

   

• Captain’s Table

  Fri 14 Nov 2025

  Every week children that display good manners are chosen to sit at the Captain’s Table for dinner. Well done to the following children that have been selected to sit at the Captain’s Table.

  RA	Baba	3B	Emaad
  RB	Lucia	4A	Hamza
  1A	Zahra	4B	Daud
  1B	Hussain	5A	Sarim
  2B	Idrees	5B	Shaam
  2B	Ella	6A	Esaam
  3A	Abigail	6B	Aribah

  

• PE Superstars

  Fri 14 Nov 2025

  Every week during PE, coaches will be choosing pupils to be their PE superstars of the week. Well done to the following children who were fantastic in PE last week:

   

  Reception	Zidan & Arisha
  Year 1	Jasmin & Aminah
  Year 2	Umaiza & Toby
  Year 3	Charlie & Arsen
  Year 4	Musa. Z & Daud
  Year 5	Charlotte & Safaa
  Year 6	Maleeha & Ethan

  

• Starbooks Reader - Winners!

  Fri 14 Nov 2025

  The following children have been awarded ‘Star Reader’ and enjoyed going to the ‘Starbooks’ cafe in the library to enjoy a drink and a treat as their reward. Fantastic!

   

  RA	Eesa	3B	Nikolas
  RB	Meerab	4A	Layyanah
  1A	Zara	4B	Daud
  1B	M. Abdul	5A	Charlotte
  2A	Ahmed	5B	Billal
  2B	Fatima	6A	Abdul-Hadi
  3A	Rumaysa	6B	Sidrah