Dear Parent/ Guardian,

I am writing to inform regarding the dental access pilot in Littleborough for children in primary school.

There is current availability at Littleborough Dental Practice on Featherstall Road. The pilot is for children who have not attended a dentist in the last 12 months.

Littleborough Dental Practice

www.littleboroughdentalpractice.co.uk

Littleborough Dental Practice 115 Featherstall Road, Littleborough, Rochdale OL15 8JZ 

01706 376523

It was highlighted that Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale have poor oral health in children aged 5, following a national dental survey. The aim of the programme is to help support dental access for children and help you to reduce dental decay (holes) in your children’s teeth.

The dentist or dental nurse may also apply fluoride varnish to your child’s teeth after gaining consent from the child/parent. Fluoride varnish is a thin layer that is applied to your child’s teeth, and it helps strengthen tooth enamel. The fluoride varnish is golden yellow in appearance. It tastes and smells very pleasant As a result it is accepted by children.

To help access to the dentist, if you have a dental appointment and are unable to attend it is vital that you inform the dentist of your need to cancel and if required to re arrange for another time, the dentist can then offer this to someone else, please help to keep access open as much as possible at this very busy time.    

Regards

Ruth Bardsley

Public Health Programme Officer Rochdale Borough Council

Public Health and Wellbeing

As always, this week in Year 3 has been a busy one!

In  History, we have been thinking about the Stone Age and in our last history lesson thought about cave paintings and what they tell us about the past. We looked at the ways in which cave paintings were created and used what we learned to create our very own Stone Age-esque cave paintings. To do this we used charcoal and pastels alongside a selection of stencils to replicate the cave paintings we have looked at. As you can see from the photographs, a lot of fun was had doing this, particularly rearranging the classroom furniture!

In Art, continuing to think about the Stone Age and Stonehenge, we created pieces of artwork based on the famous Neolithic monument. We used a range of bright colours and a washing technique to create a colourful backdrop for our sketches of Stonehenge. We think the results were pretty spectacular! Following on from this work, we used clay to create Stone Age jewellery. First we created shapes from pieces of clay before threading them with string and painting them to make them look authentic.

In music, class 3A have been working alongside Mr Murtaugh from Rochdale Music Service to learn how to play the glockenspiel. Whilst this was a little challenging at first, we are now becoming more confident and are starting to get our heads around some more complex pieces of music. 

Please ensure you check your parent mail on a regular basis for the latest news and information. Thank you for your continued support.

We still have a few places available for recorders after school lessons for Key Stage 2 Children. These will start from Tuesday 31st October up until Tuesday 12^th December, and will be every Tuesday after school from 3.10pm-3.50pm.

If you are interested in a place for your child:

You will need to log into Parent Mail in order to book. Please go to payments/shop/add to basket at £0 cost.

We have limited spaces available for flutes.

The cost is £24, and will run every Monday from 3.15pm-3.45pm.

If you are interested then please email the school:

office@marlandhill.rochdale.sch.uk

Please note that high school admission applications need to be completed online by the 31st  October 2023.

The information for Rochdale schools is below:

About applying for a secondary school place | Apply for a year 7 secondary school place | Rochdale Borough Council

A reminder to please ensure that you complete your child’s data collection form and return to school as soon as possible. It is important that school  has your child’s most up to date information. Only adults who are aged 18 years or over are able to collect your child. Thank you for your continued support.

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!

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