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Please see information below for the week commencing 17th March 2025:
Fri 14 Mar 2025Installation of canopies: We are pleased to share that The Cabin canopy has now been installed and the canopy outside the Year 2 classrooms is well underway. This work will continue into next week. As a result, the playground gate will remain out of use; children attending The Cabin will continue to access school via the hall external doors; and Year 2 children will access their classrooms through The Chestnut Room. Thank you for your continued understanding at arrival and collection times. Monday
Alice Hemming Author Visit: Alice Hemming will be visiting Millfield to hold a school assembly and creative writing workshops. Alice will also be reading stories with each class. At the end of the school day, there will be an opportunity for children to purchase a book and have it signed by Alice in the playground outside the Year 4 classrooms. If it’s raining, the event will take place in the hall instead; please access via the external hall doors.
Miss Pavey, a Cambridge PGCE student, will be joining us at Millfield to support within Maple Class until 20th June.
Tuesday
Volunteers from the Gudwara in Hitchin are visiting Year 2 classes to talk about their religion to the children.
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Family Friday Session: We look forward to welcoming parents and carers to our Family Friday Session for you to learn alongside your child.
Red Nose Day Please see the letter sent out for more information. Children and staff are invited to wear ‘something red’ on this day. The theme this year is ‘say something funny for money’ where each child can bring in a joke to share with their class. If you would like to, please make a voluntary contribution to support this fantastic charity and the amazing work they do: https://www.justgiving.com/page/millfield?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL
Edwinstree Choir Visit: We are excited to announce that the Edwinstree Choir will be visiting Year 3 and Year 4 children to perform. This will be a wonderful opportunity for the children to experience live music and engage with the choir.
Attendance: Whole school attendance this week was 93.9%. Well done to Ash Class who were the class winners for attendance with an amazing 99.3% – well done!
Forthcoming learning information: To view information about year group learning for next week please click on the following link to year group pages on our school website. Please then find the icon titled ‘Forthcoming Learning’ within your child’s year group. https://www.millfield.herts.sch.uk/year-group-pages/
Please note: This will be available to view by the beginning of each week. -
Message from Mrs Kennedy-Weeks
Fri 14 Mar 2025Year 2 Trip to Cambridge Botanic Gardens
Our Year 2 children had a thoroughly enjoyable day at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens today. They explored the rainforest inside the glass house and looked at one of the largest trees in the UK beside the pond area. The children were excited to find and point out the wildlife. Year 2 children were great representatives of Millfield – Well done to Year 2!
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Message from Mrs Kennedy-Weeks
Fri 14 Mar 2025PAWS Visit
Blue, our school dog, is taking part in the PAWS Therapy Dog Programme, which will further equip him and the school dog handlers with everything we need to know and do to deliver safe and effective animal-assisted therapy. Blue impressed the trainers from PAWS this week with the range of exercises that he could confidently complete. He also learnt new exercises, such as an ‘emergency stop’ and a ‘spin’. Well done Blue!
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British Science Week 2025
Fri 14 Mar 2025We are so pleased to have taken part in activities to celebrate BSW at school this week. The theme this year is ‘Change and Adapt’. Children have taken part in various activities, such as watching live lessons by the National Farmers’ Union, learning about Sustainable AI and being immersed in a live space lesson.
Investigations have included: what should be flushed down the toilet, how sports and games can be adapted for children with disabilities, how crystals form and grow, as well as how butter can be made. Classes are also in the process of measuring children to find the average height in each class to provide a visual graph to show how we change as we get older.
We have also been talking to the children about how science is all around us all the time, from the cars they travel in, the games consoles they may use and the kitchen equipment in their homes.
A highlight for our KS2 children was their Kapla workshop yesterday. Thank you to the parents and carers for their contributions to enable this event to happen. It was great fun, the children thoroughly enjoyed this construction experience; four hours of work, by over 100 children, resulted in an impressive display of sculptures in the hall. The demolition phase was a lot quicker than the construction phase! Please take a look at the photographs.
We have also been talking about careers that use Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) skills. If any parents/carers would like to come in and talk to the children about how STEM is used in their jobs, please let us know (not just scientists, but anything that uses science, e.g. opticians, medical workers, hairdressers, geologists to name a few).
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Please see information below for the week commencing 10th March 2025:
Fri 07 Mar 2025Installation of two canopies: Please see the email for further information. Monday
British Science Week takes place between 10th and 14th March with the theme of ‘Change and Adapt’.
Science will be a key focus for the week. Classes will be engaging in a range of exciting activities, with lessons incorporating as much Science as possible. This will include live lessons, hands-on investigations and fun activities, such as science-themed word searches, building challenges and discussions about animal adaptations.
Additionally, Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 children will be taking part in the STEMpoint Create Challenge, where children will design and create a creature. Each class will select a winner and from there, a KS1 and KS2 winner will be submitted to represent our school. We’re looking forward to an exciting and engaging week of Science learning.
KS1 and KS2 Science Assembly led by the MSD Faculty.
Tuesday
Visit from PAWS for a therapy assessment for Blue, our school dog.
Wednesday
Thursday
KAPLA Workshop for KS2: Please see the email previously sent out for more information.
Children from Reception to Year 4 will view the final exhibition over the afternoon.
3:15pm KS2 parents/carers and children are inviting to view this unique exhibition after school to see the construction your child has contributed to. Please use the Hall external doors. For access, you should enter through the Office Pedestrian Gate and then proceed through the Pedestrian Gate into the carpark. For safety reasons, please do not use the automatic double gates for the carpark. Please exercise caution when in the carpark area due to moving vehicles.
Friday
Year 2 Cambridge Botanical Gardens Trip: Please see the email previously sent out for more information.
Celebration Assembly for Millfield children.
Attendance: Whole school attendance this week was 96.43%. Well done to Rowan Class who were the class winners for attendance with an amazing 98.9%.
Forthcoming learning information: To view information about year group learning for next week please click on the following link to year group pages on our school website. Please then find the icon titled ‘Forthcoming Learning’ within your child’s year group. https://www.millfield.herts.sch.uk/year-group-pages/
Please note: This will be available to view by the beginning of each week. -
Message from Mrs Kennedy-Weeks
Fri 07 Mar 2025PTA AGM meeting
We would like to extend our thanks to our outgoing PTA members for their dedication, hard work and contributions to our school community. Your support has made a lasting impact, and we appreciate everything you have done.
We are also excited to announce that a new PTA team has been nominated! We look forward to working together to continue supporting our school and creating wonderful opportunities for our children. Stay tuned for more updates and thank you for your ongoing support!
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Message from Mrs Kennedy-Weeks
Fri 07 Mar 2025Year 4 Pancake Workshop
Herts Catering Limited (HCL) hosted interactive workshops for our Year 4 children. The children worked hard to pedal stationary bikes equipped with blenders to mix the pancake batter, promoting both sustainability and fun physical activity. The session covered pancake-making techniques, ingredient choices and healthy choices. Children enjoyed their creations, making it an engaging and educational experience for all.
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Message from Mrs Kennedy-Weeks
Fri 07 Mar 2025World Book Day
Everyone at Millfield looked amazing dressed up as different characters from books for World Book Day on Thursday. Over the morning, teachers visited different classes where they read their favourite story. Can your child remember any of the stories? Which story was their favourite story? Children also enjoyed sharing books that they had brought from home with their friends.
Over the week, classes have been working on a ‘top secret mission’ to create a window display inspired by a book. We hope you all enjoyed looking at the wonderful displays after school on Thursday. It was great to see the creative and imaginative artwork the children created. It was lovely to see the children taking great pride in showing parents/carers their artwork, as well as guessing what books the classes had based their displays on. Please see the table below to see if your guesses were correct!
Class
Book
Nursery
We’re going on a bear hunt
Apple
The tiger who came for tea
Cherry
The Very hungry caterpillar
Elm
The Gruffalo
Olive
Elmer
Maple
Where the wild things are
Birch
The jolly Postman
Rowan
Funnybones
Willow
Aliens love underpants
Ash
How to catch a star
Oak
The day the crayons quit
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Message from Mrs Kennedy-Weeks
Fri 07 Mar 2025Library visits
It was a pleasure to take KS1 and KS2 children to Buntingford Library this week. The children took part in three activities based on World Book Day; the Librarians also read books to the children. Children were very much engaged and enjoyed the visits. Thank you to Buntingford Library for this lovely opportunity.
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Message from Mrs Kennedy-Weeks
Fri 07 Mar 2025World Wildlife Day
We recently held a World Wildlife Day Assembly at school, where children had the opportunity to learn more about wildlife from around the world and the importance of looking after our planet.
The assembly included some interesting talks and activities that helped raise awareness of environmental issues and the need for conservation. It was a great chance for the children to think about how they can contribute to protecting wildlife and the natural world.
