Year 1 will be visiting the Manchester Museum of

Transport, this is linked to their topic work on the

history of transport. Children will be going on

Wednesday 24^th January.

The cost of the trip will be £8. This is a voluntary contribution towards the cost of the visit and transport, however if there is not enough money collected the visit will be cancelled.  The cost of the visit has been subsidised by school. 

Please complete the consent form on parent mail, which can be found in the forms section. To pay the £8 voluntary contribution, please go to parent mail, payments/shop.

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.

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.

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

 Thank you for your continued support.

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.

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.

 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.

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.