Latest Information On School Closures

4th January 2021M Hanratty

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:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision

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

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“The Year 2 Poppy Factory”

10th November 2020M Gilbert

Year 2 were very busy creating poppies for our poppy wreath to help commemorate “Remembrance Day.”  We explored various ways of staining coffee filter papers to colour our poppies, then once dried we cut, twisted and shaped our poppies to help create our wreath. It was great fun!

Scary, spooky spectres in Year 2!

24th October 2020M Gilbert

Year 2 had an amazing Halloween Day and it certainly was FUN! The costumes were brilliant and that added to the super atmosphere of the day. The children participated in spooky craft sessions  creating Trick or Treat Bags, spooky skulls and creepy bats. We had great fun playing Halloween party games and we all laughed so much. We ended the day with a scrumptious tea party where our lovely friend Lucia won the chocolate Halloween raffle prize for Year 2. Well done Lucia, all your friends were so happy for you winning the big prize. Happy Halloween everyone!

Here We Are

7th October 2020M Hanratty

To welcome the children back to school in September, each class bubble shared the story ‘Here We Are’ by Oliver Jeffers.
We had great fun learning about our wonderful world and thinking about the special places, people and animals in it. It made us all think about how lucky we are to have such an amazing world.
We created some beautiful work to share our thoughts with everyone in school.

What brilliant work it is!

‘Relationships Matter’ Support

27th September 2020C Edwards

The following links contain support and advice for families and young people. The coronavirus outbreak is leading to big changes in the way we live our everyday lives. Our relationships will be hugely important for getting us through this but self-isolation, social distancing and other concerns may also place them under added pressure.

The Relationships Matter Programme: https://youtu.be/WFwJi_k0hcQ

The Incredible Years: https://youtu.be/eyk6Qza1Row

Family Check Up: https://youtu.be/yqQ9Eoho2DY

Parenting When Separated: https://youtu.be/VIssxegcUxc

MBT: Parenting Under Pressure: https://youtu.be/n76wyKRFu_g

For further information and advice, go to the ‘Relationships Matters’ website.

Year 2 Glitter Bugs

27th September 2020M Gilbert

In Science this week our Year 2 scientists investigated how microscopic bugs can spread and more importantly, how we can remove bugs and germs from our skin. For the experiment, Year 2  investigated which method is best to remove grease and germs from our hands. They spread hand-cream into their hands and added the fun germs(glitter) then they wiped, rinsed or used warm water and soap to investigate which method safely removed most microscopic bugs, Which method do you think work best? Why not ask Year 2?