Welcome to Year 1! Year 1 have had a great start to the year and have made massive progress in the huge transition from Reception. We have been busy writing a bedtime routine making sure we have used capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. Our phonics lessons have continued from reception and the children are now used to the routine and their phonics teacher.

Both Year 1 classes are practising their books 3 or more times which is wonderful to see. Keep it up! In maths, we are working on cementing our understanding of numbers to 10, finding different parts and whole numbers, comparing numbers and using the symbols <,> and =. As part of our Toys topic, the children on Friday had a wonderful time learning about Punch and Judy and other puppets and then created their own!

We are running a Halloween competition starting next week.  The children must enter using the    purchased pumpkin template. NO REAL PUMPKINS TO BE USED OR BROUGHT INTO SCHOOL. We will come round to classes with the templates from Monday.

Please see page 10 for more information.

KS2 School Choir will be restarting as an after school club on Thursday 6^th November. This will be as follows:

· Thursday's KS2 (Year 3 - Year 6) 3:10pm - 4:00pm 

If you wish for your child to participate you will need to book a place on parent mail by going to shop/payments to book and reserve a place. There is no cost. Places are on a first come, first served basis. We do encourage the children to ensure they attend each week to be able to learn and perform.

Voting for House Captains’ took commenced last week. The results are as follows:

Earth

House Captain—Isla

Deputy—Shahram

Air

House Captain—Dawud

Deputy—Amelia. K

Water

House Captain—Farhan

Deputy—Abeeha

Fire

House Captain—Amelia. R

Deputy—Jack

Well done Everyone!

Thank you to all the staff, parents and carers who turned up to our very first eco shop of the school year.  With your support, we have now managed to save 214 containers in total!  With every refill, you are playing your part in making a huge difference to our environment.  Thank you all once again!

If any parents are considering applying to our nursery or reception classes next year, and would like to look round school our open day will be Wednesday 22nd October at 9.30am, if you would like to attend please email the school office: office@marlandhill.rochdale.sch.uk

Thank you.

The deadline to apply for high school is  Friday 31st October 2025. You will need to apply online:

https://www.rochdale.gov.uk/school-admissions-appeals/apply-secondary-school-place

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!