Below are the updated risk assessments for January 2021.
A huge “Happy Birthday” to the inspiration for our school logo, Souter Lighthouse!
It is a very impressive 150 years old today!!!
Why not make your own card or lighthouse picture to mark the occasion? Email your creations to mhanratty@marsdenprimary.org.uk
It’s been fantastic to see all the game playing on Spelling Shed this week.
Our leading class this week is … Year 5. Fantastic work! Who will it be next week?
Our super spellers this week are:
Y2- Rosie Z, Aimee-Rose, Tom
Y3 – Erin, Alyssa, Scarlett
Y4 – James, Grace, Leah-May
Y5 – Amelia, Jessica, Anya
Y6 – Gracey, Lily, Zach
Well done everyone! A honey pot reward will be added to your account. Who will get the rewards next week?
Keep on spelling everyone!
EYFS have worked very hard this week! We have been learning about New Year and completed lots of special ‘New Year’ challenges. We made New Years’ Resolutions, wrote ‘Thank You’ cards from Christmas and practised counting back too.
Nursery rhymes provide bite-sized learning opportunities for young children to develop key developmental skills and can often be the trigger for hours of creative and open-ended play. They are a powerful learning source in early literacy and enable children to become interested in the rhythm and patterns of language.
“Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight. -”
Mem Fox, Reading Magic.
Below is a booklet containing some classic Nursery Rhymes that you and your child can enjoy together. You can also put the names of your favourite rhymes into YouTube so you can watch and listen to them. Alternatively, Cbeebies iplayer has some great Rhymes from Mr Tumble.
Let us know your favourite Nursery Rhyme in the comment box below 🙂
Hope you all enjoy the first Bedtime Story of 2021!
Our Year 3/4 bubble worked super hard and made these fantastic Roman Shields!
Keep up your daily phonics sessions by accessing Phonics Play for free during this time.
Phonics Play has a wide variety of activities and games to support and consolidate their phonological knowledge.
Click Here to visit their website.
Username:jan21
Password: home
Email your child’s teacher if you are unsure which phase would best suit your child.
Starting on Monday 11 January, each week day on CBBC will see a three-hour block of primary school programming from 9am, including BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily, as well as other educational programming such as Our School and Celebrity Supply Teacher and much loved titles such as Horrible Histories, Art Ninja and Operation Ouch.
Bitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on BBC Red Button as well as episodes being available on demand on BBC iPlayer.
CBeebies iPlayer also provide an excellent range of educational videos. Our favourites are Numberblocks, Alphablocks , Time for School, Something Special and My First.
Dear Parents
As I am sure you will have heard, the Prime Minister announced a National Lockdown which includes the closure of Primary Schools to everyone apart from Key workers and Vulnerable children.
Due to the late timing of this announcement, I have decided that Marsden Primary School will be closed tomorrow (Tuesday 5th January 2021) to ALL pupils. This is to allow time for us to collate the information of Key workers, Vulnerable children and to organise the provision that will be in place in school. Please can I ask that you have a look at the updated link below detailing the current Key Worker list:
Tomorrow morning I will send out a questionnaire for you to complete to let us know if you are a key worker and if you would like your child to attend school. Once I have this information, i will provide a booking form which will be the same as the one we used in 2020, to allow us to know how many children will be in school each day.
For those children who will not be coming to school, remote learning will be provided. Again due to the timing of this announcement, there will be a shorter form of learning for the rest of this week which will be available by the end of tomorrow, with the higher quality remote learning from next Monday. The children have made so much progress during the Autumn Term and I appreciate how difficult home learning is, but hopefully we can support each other in the next half term.
Please be patient tomorrow and I will be in touch as soon as possible,
Kind regards
Mrs Caroline marshall
Sent from my iPad
