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Principal's Message
Principal's Message
This will be our final newsletter of 2024. We would like to thank you all for your continued support this term. We have celebrated Christmas in style this year. I would like to say a huge well done to the children in EYFS and KS1 who performed brilliantly in their nativities and KS2 who sang beautifully at their carol concert. Thank you to the kitchen team for our delicious Christmas dinner on Wednesday and to the PTA for this year's Christmas Fair.
Today, we ended the week with a pyjama day as part of the School Council's fundraising events for Demelza. Thank you all so much for supporting us with this event.
Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful time with your family and friends over the break. We look forward to welcoming you all back on Tuesday 7th January.
Mrs H Penning
Monday 6th January 2025 - INSET Day (No pupils in school)
Tuesday 7th January 2025 - First Day of Term 3
Wednesday 8th January 2025 9.00am-10:00am Year 1 Parents Phonics Meeting
Thursday 16th January 2025 4:15pm - Young Voices Choir Parent Information Meeting
Thursday 23rd January 2025 - Young Voices Concert @ The O2
Monday 27th January - Friday 31st January 2025 - Year 6 Aylmerton Residential
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Parent and Community Careers Links
Parent and Community Careers Links
The exciting inquiries that our children explore every day here at Marden, provide them with many opportunities to learn about a wide range of careers globally, as well as within their local community. We are always looking for ways to enrich these experiences, and provide them with inspiration for their futures.
We would like to invite you to become a part of this. If you have a passion, hobby, specialism or career, and you are able to volunteer some time to come into school and share this with our children, then we gratefully ask you to fill out this form and provide us with some more information, so that we can get in touch.
Please note: we are extremely grateful to everyone that volunteers their time to come into school, and we appreciate that people are very busy. Therefore, if you are not able to come into school but would like to offer something else, then please feel free to still get in touch.
Weald of Kent Young Farmers Club is returning for a third year with their charity tractor parade on Sunday 22 December between 5-7pm where 45 tractors (lit up for Christmas) will be driving through Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Staplehurst and Marden in aid of their Club and Kent Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance.
More information including the route can be found on this link - https://wealdofkentyfc.wordpress.com/light-it-up-tractor-run/ and our JustGiving page for donations is https://www.justgiving.com/page/wokyfctractorparade2024
Christmas Party Fundraiser for Bliss
Christmas Party Fundraiser for Bliss
Jo Douglas is a parent at the school and one of our governors. She is training to run the London marathon for Bliss, the baby charity. To support her fundraising efforts, Jo is hosting a children’s Christmas party this Sunday 22nd December, 2-4pm
Father Christmas will be in attendance and will have a small gift for the children. There will be also be party games hosted by one of his elves (a West End trained party entertainer*) and we’ll even provide some Prosecco and mince pies for the grown ups.
All proceeds will be going to Bliss, the baby charity in support of fundraising for the London marathon.
This event is tickets only and spaces are limited. If you’d like to come, please get in touch with Jo at Joanne.adams@hotmail.com
Tickets are £15 per child + £5 optional charity donation, £10 for sibling or £30 for three children from the same family. The party is set up for children 6 and under.
If you cannot attend, but would like to support Jo's fundraising, you can do so by following the link here:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/jo-douglas-1723155284886?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL
National Online Safety
National Online Safety
With social media’s ever-growing popularity among children and young people, it’s important for adults to keep themselves apprised of the associated risks and help youngsters to navigate these platforms in a safe, responsible manner.
However, it can be difficult to know exactly how to protect children and young people while they use these apps. This free guide offers you expert tips on supporting youngsters to enjoy the features of social media while avoiding the risks.
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