Following the success of this term’s workshops we will be inviting parents in again this term to promote the benefits of positive reading with your child. Parents/carers are invited to attend, tea/coffee will be provided. The dates are as follows:

· Monday 13th February—Year 4

· Monday 27^th Feb – Year 6

· Monday 6^th March – RANs drop in session

· Monday 13^th Match – Year 5

· Monday 20^th March Year 4

· Monday 27^th March Year 3

Sessions will run 9.00am-9.30am.

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.

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.

We have a book swap in the main school reception with lots of different books  that children are welcome to take home and read. If you have any books at home that you wish to swap or donate to the stall we would be very grateful. Thank you.

We have a small number of places for beginners flute and brass lessons. If you are interested then please email the school at:

office@marlandhill.rochdale.sch.uk

We are planning to hold Parents Meetings in March. These will be  face to face again and bookings will be made on School Cloud. More information to follow.

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!

Thank you to all parents who attended the reading workshop this week.

This week has been Safety Week in school and pupils have been learning how to keep themselves safe in a variety of situations. 

Reception - Safer Internet Day 

Year 1 - Staying Safe at Home

Year 2 - Fire Safety 

Year 3 - Road Safety

Year 4 - Water Safety 

Year 5 - First Aid 

Year 6 - Staying Safe Around Harmful Substances

The children had so many ideas and gave great top tips on how to stay safe.

In line with the Government’s White Paper recommendation, we are considering extending the length of the school day slightly from September, and are consulting with parents about this. From September we are proposing:

Nursery 9.00am – 12.00pm, and 12.00pm – 3.00pm

Reception, year 1 and year 2 – 8.50am – 3.20pm

Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 – 8.40am – 3.10pm

We will be continuing with the staggered start and finish times to support with the safe handover of children, particularly around the years 1 and 4 doors, which would otherwise be overcrowded.

We still intend to offer a range of after school activities, and information about these would be shared with you at the start of each term, in line with our current practise.

I appreciate that these changes may have some impact on your current home time arrangements, including childcare or working patterns. If you wish to share your thoughts on these changes, please send your emails to the school office by the 1^st March. office@marlandhill.rochdale.sch.uk

In line with our arrangements to keep parents informed of what their child is learning in school, next week the children will once again be bringing home the knowledge organisers and homework tasks for the next half term.

We would appreciate your support in ensuring homework tasks are completed, and returned to school. It would also be beneficial to your child if you looked at and discussed the content of the knowledge organiser at intervals across the half term, enabling your child to share with you what they are learning in class.