Marlow Church of England Infant School Parent Portal - Merry Christmas from Marlow Infants

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19th December 2025

In school this week

This morning we held our Christmas by Candlelight, and it was a wonderful way to end the term. The children were really excited to have a special visit from Father Christmas! We are all very thankful that Father Christmas was able to make time for us and enjoyed chatting to the children and even told a joke!

The staff team have been amazing, as always, this year and I would like to thank them for their continuing dedication, going the extra mile to provide nurture and wonderful learning opportunities for the children.

We are so blessed with the support of a wonderful parent body, and we have been warmed by your generosity this Christmas. Not only in the form of gifts that have been sent into school for the staff, but also in the support through charitable giving.

My thanks also go to the PFA committee for their continued support of our school. They have raised an amazing amount of money for the school this term and have supported us by taking on a huge range of jobs, from providing refreshments for Open Mornings and Nativities to making 180 Christingle Candles. We really could not do what we do without them!

I would like to welcome the new families who will be joining us in the new year. We are looking forward to getting to know you and having you as members of our community.

Wishing you all a happy, peaceful and healthy Christmas, and we are looking forward to seeing you all in 2026.

Mrs Reynolds

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At a glance

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Whole school

w/c 29th December

Lunches - order your child's lunches for the first week back by midday on 2nd January

School calendar

Christmas by Candlelight

Vision & Values Day 1

Vision & Values Day 2

All Day

07
January

Governors T&L Meeting

7:00pm – 8:30pm

12
January

To see the full calendar click here

Latest News

19 Dec 2025

Christmas By Candlelight

Christmas By Candlelight - Friday 19th December

17 Dec 2025

Nativity Performances

Nativity Performances - w/c 15th December

10 Dec 2025

Year 1 Fine Dining Winner - Ladybird Class

Year 1 Fine Dining Winner Ladybird Class – Tuesday 16th December

General news & reminders

Baxter said, ' Our favourite book is Oi Puppies and I like the rhymes, ' while Oliver preferred the bit in the book where the cat and the frog didn't know what all the doggies were called. Aidan said, 'I like the cat. My brither likes the cat too.'

We hope you have enjoyed the book recommendations this half term.

Term Dates

The term dates for 2026–2027 have now been published on our school website and are available to download at the bottom of the page here.

Active Journey Week

Date: w/c 24th November

Each term we hold an Active Journey week (formerly known as 'Walk to School Week'), the aim of which is to raise awareness for and encourage more sustainable journeys to school.

During active journey week, we encourage parents/carers and children to walk, cycle, scoot to school. If you live further away from school, you can park your car further away from school than usual so that part of the journey can be walked (Park & Stride).

Every day, we ask the children to log how they came to school and during this week we will be trying to increase the number of active journeys. In Celebration Worship on Friday, there will be a trophy awarded to the class with the most active journeys during the week.

Safety Day

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Date: Tuesday 25^th November

As part of our Active Journey week (formerly known as 'Walk to School Week') which takes place during the week of 24^th November, we will be holding our annual Safety Day.

As part of the Safety Day, the children will be taking part in a range of activities which principally focus on safety around transport and roads. During the day, the children will all have a Scootability session which will teach them how to ride and use their scooters safely. There is no need to send children's scooters into school. Each child will be provided with a scooter and the necessary safety equipment for their session.

Other sessions include:

First Aid (provided by Dr McGurran)
Road Safety (provided by teachers)

Whole School News

Nativity Bundle

The ParentPay item for the Nativity bundle is now closed.

For those who have purchased the bundle, we are hoping to get the photo and video link to you during the first week of the spring term.

Class Home Pages

The Class Home Pages for the first half of the spring term are now published. You can visit the home pages by logging into the school website where you will find information about the curriculum for your child's class and other resources.

Science Home Learning

Fun science activities have been set for the children to do via Google Classroom over the Christmas holidays. We hope you enjoy doing these and look forward to hearing about them!

School Lunches - important

Lunches for next term are now available and ask parents to book through to half term. The cut off date for 6 January will be Friday 2 January.

PE/Library/Outdoor Learning Days - Reminder

PE Days

Please can children come to school dressed in their PE Kit

Reception: Monday

Year 1: Wednesday & Thursday

Year 2: Tuesday & Friday

Library Days

Please remember to bring your library bags & library books

Reception: Friday

Year 1: Thursday

Year 2: Wednesday

Outdoor Learning Days

A reminder to bring wellies and waterproof trousers into school for Outdoor Learning lessons. Weather in the spring can still be quite cold and rather wet.

Waterproof trousers can be purchased via ParentPay.

Reception: Wednesday

Year 1: Thursday

Year 2: Tuesday

Spring Term Clubs

School run lunchtime clubs will start the week commencing 12th January. In the first week back, the office will email and confirm if your child has a place for Spring half-term 1.

PFA news

Dates for your Diary

LEGO workshop: Saturday 17^th January @ 3pm
PFA Fundraising Meeting: Wednesday 21^st January @ 7.30pm

Lego Workshop

LEGO Workshop

Date: Saturday 17^th January 2026 @ 3pm

Looking for a brilliant gift idea this Christmas? Gift vouchers for our LEGO workshop are now available - The perfect present for creative LEGO lovers!

Just add that you would like this to be gift as a note when booking through ParentPay!

Calling all Lego enthusiasts - an immersive Lego adventure awaits you!

Our Masterbuilders LEGO event promises to be full of icebreakers and fun games, followed by a story led workshop with built in brick challenges - let your child's imagination run wild!

Coming to Sandygate on Saturday 17th January 2026,

Tickets are £15 and available on ParentPay now!

PFA Calendars

By now, you should have your calendars and photos, and we hope they’ve brought a smile to your face!

A huge thank you to Gabrielle McMillan, who kindly donated her time and talent to capture such wonderful photos of the children, and to Simon Williams for his fantastic work designing the calendars.

Merry Christmas from the PFA

It seems like a while since the ‘Back to School BBQ’ at the start of this term – it’s been a very busy start to the school year! We hope that you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have, and we can’t quite believe how much we’ve managed to achieve.

We’re so very grateful to you all for your generosity, volunteering, attending events, baking and any other support you have given the PFA to help us support the school. So, with that, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and hope you all enjoy a very merry and very well-earned rest!

PFA Social Media Plea

We would really like to reach the wider local community with our fundraising goals for the school, and we would really appreciate it if you would be able to follow our social media pages - we hope that this support will really help us to achieve this. It is also another handy place to see all our events and updates!

Our new Instagram page is linked here and our Facebook page is linked here

Thank you!

Other News

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