World Down Syndrome Day

• Date: Friday 20^th March

We will be marking World Down Syndrome day in school on Friday 20^th March. The children will be learning about Down Syndrome during school worship and on Friday 20^th we are asking the children to come to school wearing bright, colourful socks that will get noticed. The idea is that people will ask them why they are wearing the socks, and they will be able to say 'I am wearing these socks to raise awareness for Down Syndrome!' 

What is Down Syndrome?

• Down syndrome occurs naturally – there is no known cause.
• Down Syndrome (or Trisomy 21) is a condition in which a person has an extra chromosome.
• Most people have 23 pairs of chromosomes – 46 in total. People with Down Syndrome have an extra chromosome added to the 21st pair – 47 in total.
• Chromosomes act like an instruction manual that defines how our bodies look and how they work.
• People who have Down Syndrome usually have an intellectual disability. This is different for each person.
• Some health conditions are more common in people with Down Syndrome.
• Around 1 in every 800 babies will be born with Down Syndrome.

#ImproveOurSupportSystems  #WorldDownSyndromeDay

Waste Week & Great British Spring Clean

Next week is Waste Week in school, and our whole community will be thinking about how we can reduce the amount of waste we produce. Throughout the week, children will take part in activities and discussions about recycling, reusing materials, and making small changes that can have a big impact on our environment.

We are also excited to be taking part in the Great British Spring Clean. This national campaign encourages communities to work together to help keep their local areas clean and tidy.

To finish the week, we will be hosting a Community Litter Pick on Saturday, running from 10am – 2pm. All families are warmly invited to join us at any time during the session. Equipment will be available from the front of school, so you can simply turn up and get involved.

Thank you for supporting our efforts to help children care for their environment.

We look forward to seeing many of you there!

Easter Service

On Tuesday 24th March from 9.45am-10.15am, we would like to invite all families to our Easter Service at All Saints Church.

We also need a number of parents to help walk to the church with the children. We will leave school at 9.15am and return by 10.45am.

Thank you very much to those parents who have already signed up to volunteer. We still require some more volunteers if possible please. If you can help, please let us know below.

Ladybird: 3 more volunteers required

Butterfly: 1 more volunteer required

Grasshopper: 1 more volunteer required

Dragonfly: 1 more volunteer required

Please click here to volunteer

Hot Cross Buns

The children will receive a hot cross bun, following the Easter Service, to take home with them on Tuesday 24th March.

Thank you very much to those of you that have very kindly volunteered to help bag these up for us.

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Easter Competitions

• All entries brought in: Tuesday 24^th March and Wednesday 25^th March

It's that time of year again for our annual Easter Competitions!

We would like the children to bring their entries into school on Tuesday 24^th March and Wednesday 25^th March so that we can judge them and award the winners on Thursday 26^thMarch. Please don't bring them in before these dates as we don't have enough space to store them.

We are planning to have an Easter Hat parade on Thursday 26^thMarch at which the Year 2 children can show off their Easter Hats to the rest of the school.

The details of the competition for each year's groups are shown below. The categories are:

Reception – Easter Basket 

Create an Easter basket using recycled materials and using some of the symbols of Easter that you have been learning about.

Year 1 – Easter Garden 

An Easter garden is a traditional way of remembering what happened on Good Friday and usually includes a hill. As the bible says, Jesus was crucified on a hilltop, three crosses, a stone to represent the stone across the entrance to the tomb. Some simple instructions for a garden are shown below.

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Year 2 – Easter Hat

An Easter hat is any new hat worn traditionally on Easter Sunday. It is the tail end of an English tradition of wearing new clothes for Easter and is in keeping with the spirit of renewal and redemption at this time of the year.

For our Easter hats, we would like you to take the theme of renewal further by reusing and recycling materials for your hat. 

Class-led Worship

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We have been holding class-led worships over the last few weeks. Each class is basing their worship on their class value, and we would like to invite parents/carers to join in with the worship. Each class worship will be from 9am-9.30am. We are limiting 2 tickets per family. Please book your tickets below if you haven't already.

Ant Class: Kindness – Thursday 19^th March  Book Tickets

Lost Property 

Please check the lost property tub located at the school entrance by the Easter holidays. There are lots of lost items, sadly, with no names on them for items to be returned. Any unclaimed items after Easter will be donated to charity or given to the PFA for their pre-loved uniform sale. 

Office Email Address

Back in September 2025 we completed an email and an IT migration which has moved most of our information and filing to the cloud. As part of this migration, the office email address was changed. It is:

office@marlowinfant.uk

Please ensure you are using this email address. We are still receiving a lot of emails to our old email address, which we will soon not have access to.

 

​Spring term clubs

It's time to register your interest in our Key Stage 1 school-run clubs for next half-term. Bible Bricks attendees will automatically continue next half-term. If your child doesn't already go to Bible Bricks, they can join the others by signing up below.

All clubs run during lunchtime. Places are limited, therefore we will let you know if your child is offered a place. We will try to offer at least one club per child from their choices. If your child was not offered a club this term, they will automatically have joined the waiting list for next half-term, and will therefore be the first to have a place offered. Please do sign up, to request your child to continue attending a club that they have attended this half-term.

Monday

• Tidy Up Team (Mr Creese)

Tuesday

• Sandygate Singers (Miss Cubbage & Mrs Mitchell)

Wednesday

• Science & Art (Mrs Browning) 
• Book Club (Mrs Guinness)

Thursday

• Bible Bricks (Laura Anne & Mrs Howarth)

Click here to sign up

Maypole Club

Children who signed up for this club in the Spring Term will automatically continue on to the Summer term, as they will take part in performances at the Summer Fair and Open Afternoon. This club is led by Mrs Reynolds and takes place every Thursday after school between 3.15pm and 3.45pm.

End of Key Stage 1 Assessments

• Dates: First half of the summer term

It may seem a while away, but during the first half of the summer term, the Year 2 team will be conducting end of year assessments. These are assessments where teachers will use observations and assessments that they have conducted throughout the year to determine whether a child has met the end of Key Stage 1 standards. End of key stage assessments are no longer statutory, but we have chosen to use optional tests to help inform the teachers' judgements.

These tests will be administered in the classrooms, in a non-pressurised environment. We will call the tests 'booklets' and the children will have already seen and used similar papers in class, so they will be familiar with the format.

The test papers that we will be administering will be for reading and maths. The teachers will also use the end of key stage assessment frameworks to finalise their judgements.

There is more information on the Year 2 class homepages

The Department of Education has produced a leaflet about the optional Key Stage 1 assessments here

Outdoor learning

Due to children attending the Easter Service on Tuesday 24th at All Saints Church. Year 2 will have their outdoor learning session on Monday 23^rd March instead this week.

Spring term clubs

It's time to register your interest in our Key Stage 1 school-run clubs for next half-term. Bible Bricks attendees will automatically continue next half-term. If your child doesn't already go to Bible Bricks, they can join the others by signing up below.

All clubs run during lunchtime. Places are limited, therefore we will let you know if your child is offered a place. We will try to offer at least one club per child from their choices. If your child was not offered a club this term, they will automatically have joined the waiting list for next half-term, and will therefore be the first to have a place offered. Please do sign up, to request your child to continue attending a club that they have attended this half-term.

Monday

• Tidy Up Team (Mr Creese)

Tuesday

• Sandygate Singers (Miss Cubbage & Mrs Mitchell)

Wednesday

• Science & Art (Mrs Browning) 
• Book Club (Mrs Guinness)

Thursday

• Bible Bricks (Laura Anne & Mrs Howarth)

Click here to sign up

Maypole Club

Children who signed up for this club in the Spring Term will automatically continue on to the Summer term, as they will take part in performances at the Summer Fair and Open Afternoon. This club is led by Mrs Reynolds and takes place every Thursday after school between 3.15pm and 3.45pm.

Phonics Screening Check

• Dates: June

During June, Year 1 children participate in a phonics screening check. The purpose of the phonics screening check is to confirm that all children have learnt phonic decoding to an age-appropriate standard.

With some exceptions, all pupils who have reached the age of 6 by the end of the school year must take the check during that academic year. For most pupils, this will be in Year 1.

This year the check will take place between 8-12th June and will be conducted on a 1:1 basis with your child's class teacher.

There are more details about the phonics screening check on the Year 1 class homepages.

The Department of Education has produced a leaflet about the phonics screening check here.

A Celebration of Javanese culture 

• Date: 25th March 2.00pm

This half-term, the children will be learning about the wildlife, geography and culture of Java.

Aris Daryono, who has been visiting our school for the past 13 years, will be in to share his passion for gamelan music, the art of Java, and will help the children make some wonderful shadow puppets.

We will soon be inviting the Year 1 families to come in to watch a puppet show, written and performed by the children. This will take place on Wednesday 25th March at 2.00pm. There will also be the opportunity to taste some Indonesian food and view some of the children's creations before settling down to watch the show.

The Year 1s will be selling tickets for their performance during the week of 16th March.  This will take place at drop off and pick-up at the front of school. The cost of the tickets will be £1 each, and we would like them to be purchased with cash! There will initially be a limit of 2 tickets per child. 

We would like to ask for 4 volunteers to help the children to prepare the Indonesian food on Wednesday 25th in the morning. (We still need 3 more volunteers if possible please)

Reception parent workshops

• Date: Monday 23rd March, 2-3pm

Our second workshop will be based on Phonics.

Please let us know if you would like to attend so we can prepare enough resources for the workshop.

Click here to sign up

 

• Pre-loved School Uniform Sale: 20th March 
• Sandygate Outdoor Adventure!: 21st March @ 2.30pm or 4.30pm
• Sandygate Easter Trail: 28th March - 13th April
• Golf Tournament: 24th April
• Summer Fair and colour run: 20th June

Date: Saturday 21st March 2.30pm to 4pm / 4.30pm to 6.00pm

LAST CHANCE TO BOOK! Ticket sales close on Monday 16^th March!

We’re very excited to announce the PFA and the Outdoors Project will be hosting an afternoon of scavenger hunts, exciting games along with marshmallows round the campfire to celebrate Spring! 

We will be holding two sessions at 2.30-4pm and 4.30-6pm with a limited number of tickets for each, so we suggest that you discuss with your child's friends which session they will be going to so they don't miss out.

Tickets are £15 and available now on ParentPay!

We don't want any child to miss out on this experience, so if it is financially difficult for you, please contact the school office.

Unfortunately, we can only accommodate pupils at Sandygate to ensure everyone at the school can be included.

Looking for some light-hearted entertainment during the Easter holidays? Follow the Sandygate Easter Trail to discover our colourful eggs, decorated by our very own Sandygate families! 

Our Easter trail will run from the 28th March until 13th April. To take part, Easter trail packs will be available on ParentPay from today!  These packs will come home with your child before the end of term and include a special map, Easter-themed activities and treats! 

Each pack costs just £4! Available on ParentPay.

The next Pre-loved school uniform sale is back on Friday 20th March at drop off! If your child has outgrown their uniform, we have lots of good quality uniform at very reasonable prices, including items for the upcoming spring/summer term!

If you have any urgent requests for school uniform, please do email us at pfa@marlowinfant.uk, and we will try our best to get you sorted sooner!

Date: Monday 16^th March

Keep your eyes peeled! Tickets for the PFA Easter Raffle will be sold from Monday 16^th March. For your chance to win some beautiful prizes, make sure to catch us outside the school!

Date: Friday 24^th April 2026

Tee Off for a Great Cause! 

Join us for the 4th Holy Trinity & Sandygate Charity Golf Day — a brilliant day of golf, prizes and community spirit, all in support of two fantastic local schools.

Every swing helps raise vital funds for the Holy Trinity and Sandygate PFAs, making a real and lasting difference for our children. Thank you in advance for your generosity!

Team competition or sign up as an individual and win the Prize for Best Individual Golfer!

Amazing prizes to be won, generously donated by local Marlow businesses and sponsors.

Whether you’re playing to win or just playing for fun, it promises to be a great day on the course for an even better cause.

We’d love you to join us — sign up and be part of it!

Live on ParentPay from today!