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• Year 5A Miss Ashraf’s swimming

  Fri 19 Jan 2024

  Year 5A Miss Ashraf’s class will start swimming lessons from Tuesday 5^th February 2024

  Please complete the consent form on parent mail, which can be found in the forms section.

  Thank you.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

• Weekly Attendance Winners

  Fri 19 Jan 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	Hibbah	2B	Yahya	5B	Hassan
  RA	Daniel	3A	Mohammed Ben Sheikh	6A	Tyler
  RB	Hugo	3B	Keelan	6B	Ali
  1A	Aydin	4A	Mehvish	6C	Zainab
  1B	Emaad	4B	Aliyan
  2A	Musa	5A	Zakariya

• School Dinners

  Fri 19 Jan 2024

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

   Thank you for your continued support.

   

• Weather Conditions

  Fri 19 Jan 2024

  Please can we ask parents/carers to ensure that children come into school with their coat/jackets, gloves/hat/scarf suitable for the weather. Please ensure your child’s name is clearly labelled on items of clothing. Thank you.

   

• Attendance

  Fri 19 Jan 2024

  Please can we remind parents/carers that if your child is not in school then you must contact school. You can do this by:

  · Phone call– 01706 647147– lines open at 8am daily.

  You can always leave a voice message.

  · Parent Mail.

  · Email: office@marlandhill.rochdale.sch.uk

   

  If we receive no contact then a home visit will be carried out for safeguarding reasons. Thank you.

   

• Reading Workshops

  Fri 19 Jan 2024

   This term the reading workshops will be as follows:

   

  · Tuesday 23rd January—Year 1

  · Tuesday 30th January—Year 5

   

  Sessions will run 9.00am-9.30am. Tea/coffee will be provided. As a school, we are working on promoting a love of reading and it would be great to have parents as positive reading role models for the children. We hope to see as many parents as possible.

   

• Menu week commencing 15th January

  Mon 15 Jan 2024
  

• Year Group Focus: Year 3

  Fri 12 Jan 2024

  As is always the case the build up to Christmas in Year 3 was a hectic one! 

   

  In Design Technology we finally got the opportunity to put all of our planning and designing to good use and make our own festive stockings. To do this we used felt and other decorative items to work toward a design criteria that we decided on earlier in the half term. We created our own templates before using the sewing skills that we had practiced to join the pieces of fabric and attach sequins and other decorative items. Once finished, we took our stockings home and crossed our fingers that Santa would fill them! 

   

  In Science, having learned all about how fossils are created earlier in the term, we used toy dinosaurs, plasticine and plaster of Paris to create fossils of our own. Firstly we made an impression of our dinosaur in the plasticine which we then placed in the bottom of a paper cup. We then added a layer of plaster of Paris. Once this was dry we were able to remove the paper cup and plasticine, leaving behind our fossil which we then painted to make it look authentic. 

   

  In music, class 3A continued their work with Mr Murtagh of Rochdale Music                    Service which ultimately led to them performing for the whole of Key Stage 2 in a special assembly. Despite several issues with the technology on the day, the children performed brilliantly and showed just how confident they have become in playing the glockenspiel. 

   

  Since returning from the Christmas holidays, in preparation for another busy half term, we have been busy getting to grips with all of our new topics including Animals Including Humans in science and The Ancient Egyptians in history. 

   

  

• Attendance

  Fri 12 Jan 2024

  Attendance reports will be going home today with information regarding your child’s attendance and punctuality for the last term. If your child’s attendance is below 96% then you will also receive a colour band letter to highlight this. If you have any concerns and wish to discuss anything relating to your child’s report then you can book an appointment to speak with our attendance lead Racheal Biggs.

   

  The appointments will be available to book for Thursday 18^th Jan from 8.30am until 1.30pm and Monday 22^nd January from 8.30am until 12.30pm. This can be face to face or via telephone call.

  Please ring the school office on 01706 647147 option 1.

   

• Starbook Reader - Winners!

  Fri 12 Jan 2024

  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	Kayden	4A	Olivia
  RB	Abu Bakr	4B	Hawwa
  1A	Abdul	5A	Isa
  1B	Fatima	5B	Jacob
  2A	Alisha	6A	Sara
  2B	Hamza	6B	Aleena
  3A	Zunaira	6C	Zainab
  3B	Billal

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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