The Reception children have had lots of fun indoors and outdoors during this half term. They have especially enjoyed playing in the mud kitchen making petal soup. They have also loved the stage area, the sand tray and playing on the climbing frame. The children have loved taking on the role of a shop assistant or a customer in the Marland Hill Garden Centre. They have also enjoyed taking on different family roles in the home corner.

The children really enjoyed our walks to Forest School on Tuesday and Friday last week. They enjoyed getting out in the fresh air and looking for signs of spring. They found blossom on the trees, buds and new leaves growing on the trees and small yellow flowers. They also admired the pretty daffodils growing on Roch Valley Way. The liked listening to the birds who were singing very happily in the forest school area.

A reminder that the car park is for blue badge   holders only. If you have a blue badge then please ensure the school office have a copy for this and display it clearly on your vehicle. The blue badge holder must be present in order to be able to      access the car park.

Thank you.

At Marland Hill, we are learning a new sign every week. Why not learn with us at home too!

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.

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:

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 everyone that purchased the raffle tickets. We raised a total of £161 for the school fund. Thank you to the following organisations for your donations:

· Smithills Farm

· Lynbrook

· Educato

· Aspire People

· GPD Travel

· Value Education

· Hetherington Office Supplies

We would like to thank you parents, carers and staff for your on-going support with our eco shop!  We really appreciate the role you play in protecting our environment!

We would also like to say a HUGE thank you for making our FIRST stationery shop a massive success. As we had such a positive response, we will most definitely be looking to run similar stalls in the future! Do not worry if you missed out this time.

The after school clubs for the Summer term will start the week commencing 20^th April 2026 and will be up until the week before the summer holidays. There will be no after school clubs taking place the week commencing 13^th July. Sessions will run after school until 4.15pm each week.

The cost will be £11 for the term.

You will need to log into Parent Mail in order to book.

For all sessions children will need to come in their PE kit on the day, with suitable trainers or pumps. Children will need to bring in their own water bottles, clearly labelled with their name on.

Thank you for all your Easter competition entries. We raised a total of £144 for the school fund.           

Congratulations, the winners are:

EYFS: Kaisan

KS1: Edwin

KS2: Eliza