Welcome to the new academic year! We hope that all Millfield children and their families have had a wonderful Summer break and are excited for the year ahead.

Millfield staff, along with several contractors, have been busy preparing the school site for children’s return.

• Poulton and Sons have levelled our Nursery outside space and installed astro-turf to help us utilise this outside learning space all year round.
• Our Reception toilets have been refurbished.
• With the help of staff and children’s design skills and knowledge of our curriculum in the Summer term, over the holiday Wall Art have created 4 wonderful wall wraps (displays) in the Hub. These include a fantastic World Map with a large compass, a bespoke historical timeline, a British Values display, which includes a map of the UK, and finally, a vibrant Millfield Kitchen display. It’s so important to us at Millfield to create an environment which supports children’s learning.
• A range of classrooms have new furniture to maximise the learning space.

Please keep a look out for photographs of these new areas that we will share early next week. KS1 and 2 parents/carers will have an opportunity to view these changes during the Meet the Teacher session after school on Wednesday 6^th September.      

To support with smooth and prompt arrival and collection times, all three perimeter gates will continue to be used as entrance and exit gates.

• The school gates will open for arrival by 8:40am.
• The classroom doors will open and the registration period will start at 8:45am. Early morning learning will commence at this time.
• The gates and classroom doors will close at 8:55am when all children should be in school.
• The school gates will be open for parents/carers to collect children just before 3:15pm.  
• The school day will finish at 3:15pm when classroom doors will open and children will be collected.
• The playground pedestrian gate will be the only gate available for drop off and collection times outside of the school day e.g. The Cabin and Extra-Curricular School Clubs.

For staff training purposes on Tuesday 5^th September, The Cabin provision (Breakfast and After School Clubs) will not be running. The Cabin provision will therefore start as normal from Wednesday 6^th September 2023.

Class Timetables and Year Group Pages are in process and will be posted on the school website for when children return on Tuesday 5^th September.

The Calendar on our school website will continue to be utilised this year as a way of sharing important dates with parents/carers. This will now replace the Termly Diary Dates that were previously posted on the school website as well. Please click on the link below to view our school calendar: https://www.millfield.herts.sch.uk/diary/grid/2023/08/