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• Hall Floor Developments

  Fri 18 Oct 2024

  As previously shared, our hall floor was recently damaged due to flooding. Children and staff have shown resilience in adapting to new routines as we haven’t had full use of the hall. This will continue over the coming weeks. On Monday, the hall floor will be removed ready for the next stage of restoration.

• Herts Catering Limited Food Technology lessons with Willow & Rowan

  Fri 18 Oct 2024

  It’s been fabulous having HCL visit us in school over the past 6 weeks where they created wonderful recipes with our Year 3 children. The children had the opportunity to taste and explore new ingredients whilst also learning through cooking.

  

• Layston Grove Visit

  Fri 18 Oct 2024

  It was great to get out into the community this week and attend Layston Grove Care Home with a small group of Year 4 children, as well as Blue. The children and residents shared family photos and spoke about their families and loved ones. Thank you to Layston Grove for having us and well done to the children that attended for being great representatives of Millfield! This was also an opportunity for Blue to develop his therapy dog training skills – we were all very proud of him!

  

• Oak Class Assembly

  Fri 18 Oct 2024

  Well done to Oak Class children who performed their Harvest assembly with enthusiasm this week. It was lovely to welcome parents to this event. Children reminded us all about being kind to each other and generous to people in need.

  

• Please see information below for the week commencing 14th October 2024:

  Fri 11 Oct 2024

  Monday	SEND consultations: Allocated consultations for parents of children with SEND. If you have requested a consultation individual communication has been made. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs Gerring, our SENDCo.   Oak Class Assembly performance to KS1 & KS2 children.   3:20 – 3:40 Book Fair in the School Hall, please enter and exit through the car park entrance.
  Tuesday	9:05am Oak Class Assembly for Parents/Carers: For Oak Class parents/carers, please see your invite for further information. Refreshments will be available for parents/carers.   3:20 – 3:40 Book Fair in the School Hall, please enter and exit through the car park entrance.
  Wednesday
  Thursday	Herts Catering Limited Food Technology lessons with Willow & Rowan Classes: All ingredients etc will be provided. Cooking opportunities will be offered to all year groups over the school year.   Layston Grove Visit Allocated Year 4 children will be visiting Layston Grove sharing family photos with the residents, the children will be accompanied by staff and our school dog, Blue.   SEND consultations: Allocated consultations for parents of children with SEND. If you have requested a consultation individual communication has been made. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs Gerring, our SENDCo.
  Friday
  Attendance: Whole school attendance this week was 97.81 % Well done to Birch Class who were the class winners for attendance with an amazing 100%.   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.  Latest News | Millfield First and Nursery School Please note: This will be available to view by the beginning of each week.

   

• Parent/Carer Consultations:

  Fri 11 Oct 2024

  Please note that the system for bookings will close on Tuesday 15^th October at 10:00pm.

  

• Friendship Ladders

  Fri 11 Oct 2024

  The week has come to an end with our Friendship Ladders event where children have come together and enjoyed working in mixed aged groups to learn all about safe networks. This is known as ‘Protective Behaviours’. Children have talked about trusted adults and how these adults will listen and help them whenever they have a worry/concern and/or a problem. Children also learnt about Childline, as well as actions to help them remember the Childline phone number: 0800 1111.

  

• Harvest Donations

  Fri 11 Oct 2024

  Our Harvest celebrations this week have highlighted the importance of sharing with others who are not so fortunate. A huge thank you to our whole school community for donating so generously to Buntingford Food Bank.

  

• Topic Workshops:

  Fri 11 Oct 2024

  It was wonderful to provide our Year 2 and 3 children with fantastic workshops this week. Year 2 Children thoroughly enjoyed a fun factual day full of practical and investigative activities to find out more about the great disaster of 1666. The Stone Age workshop for Year 3 was full of activities using genuine artefacts, fossils and bones. The Year 3 children were keen to participate and very engaged in the events.

• Hello Yellow Day/World Mental Health Day:

  Fri 11 Oct 2024

  It was lovely seeing all the children and staff at Millfield wearing yellow. Children took part in class activities that focused on young people’s mental health and how we can look after our own mental health, as well as our physical health.