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Marlcliffe Primary School - Putting children first

Marlcliffe Primary School is a large primary school in the north-west of Sheffield. Our ethos is to put children first in everything we do and to raise the attainment of every child across the whole curriculum.

We've lots of information on our site, including blogs for every year group. If you can't see the information you want immediately, use the search box to the right or click the tag-words on the right of every blog.

2012 'Year of Reading' - Marlcliffe Primary School

Your child should have been given a 'Reading Passport'. This is a school project to encourage reading every day as part of our 'Year of Reading and is part of the 'Reading Miles Global Challenge' being run by the National Literacy Trust. For each 10 minutes children read at home they travel 500 miles which will take them on a reading world tour. Every pupil who completes their reading challenge will be entered into a prize draw where they can win fantastic prizes.

The School Run is a great website for home learning, which many families may already be using. It is full of information for families, resources and ideas for you to use to support your child's learning.

Copy The School Run into Google search and enjoy browsing.

Please take care to read all the small print.

Praisepod Clips

We understand that some of you are having problems with downloaded praisepod clips, that the sound quality is not good. We have been advised by the providers that you need to download a free media player called 'VLC'rather than try to use the microsoft media player. Hopefully this will address the problem and you can enjoy your child's praisepod moment!

Recycling

Follow our link and see how much we raised for school and the Firefighters Charity.

Snow

If school is to be closed or opening late (we aim to avoid closing wherever possible), there will be notification on this page of the website by 7.00 am. No notification means we're open. We'll also inform Radio Shefield and send a message via Twitter. On our Info page is a live Traffic camera feed on Penistone Road - this is used by the staff to check on road conditions on the main route into school.

Gary Wilson's top tips on getting boys to read

Watch this video for tips on encouraging boys to read.

Safeguarding

Parents - safeguarding our children is high on every school's agenda - it's about making school a safe place for children to learn, achieve and socialise. We take advice from Sheffield's safeguarding team, who have lots of information under the 'jellybean' icon. This link takes you straight there.

Wide 'n' Green

On this page, we'll be putting the goings on in our garden, the activities we're undertaking to make our school more environmentally friendly (greener), and also learning we're doing connected to the wider world.

Walk to school

Why not walk to our school? Type in your postcode to get directions from WalkIt on our Contact page. We'll tell you how many calories you'd use and how much CO2 you'd save!