As another extremely busy half term draws to a close, we would like to share our fantastic work with you...
Read on to see what your children have been up to this month and what fantastic and exciting learning opportunities they have been a part of.
Once again, I would like to say a massive thank you for all your continued support.
Mrs Trickett - Head of school
We would like to thank everyone who supported us by posting blue tokens in our local Hemsworth Tesco. We won and have been awarded £1,500 to spend on more books! We now have a very full library and children enjoy using this. Our parents will be invited to come and read with their children and borrow books very soon. We are working on cataloguing all our books so they can be checked out.
A huge thank you to everyone who purchased books from our Scholastic book fair last term. We raised £185 from this which will also be spent on further materials for our library!
We would like to invite our parents to stay and read with their children on these days from 6th June 2022:
- Mondays - EYFS parents/carers
- Wednesdays - KS1 parents/carers
- Thursdays - KS2 parents/carers
Please come and join us!
Don't forget - we will be opening at 8.45am daily from Monday 6th June in preparation for Autumn term - pupils should be in school at this time and ready to learn. PE kits will need to brought to change into on PE days.
Due to many various illnesses this term, our attendance figures have fluctuated but we are confident these will rise again to above our target of 97%. Please call school for advice, support or with any questions if your child is ill at home. We still need to remain vigilant in relation to COVID-19 and measures in place. See below for figures this term:
Autumn term 1: 96%
Autumn term 2: 95%
Spring term 1: 95%
Spring term 2: 95%
Summer term 1:
Week 1: 96%
Week 2: 94.8%
Week 3: 96.4%
Week 4:
Week 5:
Our target is 97%. I know we can do better from June 2022!
Key points from our school policies/home/school agreement:
- School uniform - consists of grey trousers/skirt with green jumper and white/green polo. These do not need to have our logo on.
- Black shoes (not trainers) which are sensible and plain.
- No jewellery whatsoever - watches are ok as long as they are not smart watches.
- Uniform should be worn every single day, unless it is a fancy dress or dress down day.
- PE kit - Plain white t-shirt/polo shirt, plain black shorts (indoors) or tracksuit bottoms (outdoors), plain hoody/jumper (outdoors) and plain black pumps/trainers. Absolutely no jewellery allowed at all.
- PE kit can be worn all day on the PE day or day of a sporting event.
- Water bottles are not provided by school, all pupils should bring labelled water bottles daily. Only water is allowed, no sports drinks or juices.
- Packed lunches should not contain any nuts or traces of nuts. They should also contain healthy food, no sweets should be brought to school.
- Mobile phones/mobile devices are not required in school. Anything brought into school is at the owner's risk and must be given to class teachers at the start of the day.
- Footballs may be brought in but are at the risk of the owner. School do not take any responsibility whatsoever for these items. If any problems occur due to these items, school will ban them completely.
- School day:
- Our school day begins at 8.45am and ends at 3.15pm (unless in Nursery). Please do not allow pupils who walk to school to come onto the site until 8.40am at the earliest. We do not open the doors until 8.45am so are not responsible for pupils until then.
- Parents do not need to come onto school site until 3.10pm at the earliest to collect pupils at the end of the day. Lessons continue until 3.15pm each day. Please, if you are on site early, keep your distance from classrooms so teachers can complete lessons without distraction.
- Homework: Parents are asked to listen to children read , practise times tables & practise spellings daily. We also set homework via Seesaw (online). If your child requires paper copies, please speak to classteacher at your earliest convenience. We do have devices we can loan out too.
- Vehicle access to school, please ensure you only enter the car park if you or your child has a blue badge. If you have a pre-existing arrangement with Miss Jones, this is also acceptable.
- If you walk into the grounds with your child, please stick to the pathways and the crossings as cars are always coming and going into the car park. There is a children's centre on site and cars require access at all times. No pupils should be allowed near staff cars or to walk through the car park at any time.
Thank you for your continued support in all the above, we must continue to work together to ensure our pupils remain safe and come to school ready to learn.
Please see below for our recent learning. Our main curriculum focus is on History skills this half term...
EYFS
This month has been fun-packed and full of exciting learning opportunities...
PE - we have been focusing on movement fluency in a variety of different ways.
Literacy - we have been learning all about the differences between living in this country and other countries, creating our own books about what life is like in the UK.
Topic - we have been learning about past and present, focusing on the changes that happen over time (including: how humans change from baby to adult, changes in music/dancing/technology/buildings/clothing).
Maths - we have been learning about sharing equally, odd and even numbers, comparing numbers and doubling!
KS1
Class 1
In year one, Mrs Burnett's class have been up to lots of amazing things. Take a look at our pic collages below...
This half term we have been investigating all about The Great Fire of London in our history topic.
We have really enjoyed finding out as much as we can from the different sources and deciding if they are reliable sources of information.
In Science we have planted our own seeds, found out about different types of wild and garden plants and explored the wide variety of trees we have in our environment.
We have been reading a story about a dog called Pig the Pug in literacy and in maths we have been consolidating our learning about money and shape, as well as practising counting in 2's, 5's or 10's.
Over half term it would be great to practice your phonics, tricky words and reading just a little bit every day. Also, you can practice writing your first and second name and numbers to 20.
Class 1/2
Here are some examples of our fantastic learning in class 1/2...
Class 2
We have had another busy half term! The children have worked extremely hard in order to prepare for their SATs exams and have really impressed us with their resilience and determination.
In Literacy we have written, edited, and improved and published our own letters to fairy tale characters from our class text 'Once upon a Time Online'. The focus of our letters was to inform these characters how to stay safe online.
Our History Topic this half term is based upon Rosa Parks and black history. We have loved finding out more about her life and why she fought for equal rights in the past.
In Maths we have revisited lots of topics in preparation for our tests, including telling the time.
In PE we have been focusing on our football skills, in particular passing, dribbling and our attacking and defending skills.
I am really proud of how hard the children have worked so far this year, and I am looking forward to a final term together in Year 2!
LKS2
Class 3
Class 3/4
Class 4
UKS2
Class 5
Class 5/6
his half term, Year 5/6 have been hard at work exploring Ancient Egypt. We started our half term off with an Egyptian workshop that hooked and engaged pupils into our topic. Literacy has also been exploring Egypt further by looking at Howard Carter as a Biography and a balanced argument on whether Egyptian tombs should be excavated for Historical evidence!
Maths, we have looked across a range of maths concepts including revising place value, and the 4 operations along with fractions, decimals and percentages. We have encompassed this into real life contexts as much as possible to give maths a real purpose.
In RE, we have looked at society and the 6 different religious festivals that build society and community cohesion. In PD and RSHE we have looked at health and wellbeing. We have learnt how to keep ourselves healthy including different types of bacteria and virus and how this affects our bodies including taking medicines responsibly under supervision of an adult.
Year 6 have completed their SATS in which their attitude and resilience was phenomenal – a huge well done!
Year 5 have continued their swimming sessions in which they have thoroughly enjoyed.
Class 6
Another month of fantastic learning opportunities in Y6!
Whole School Writing
Below are images of our writing from Y1 - Y6. We are so proud of all pupils' work across school and will be on the look out for next month's work to showcase...
This half term, all points have been reset and all houses will be asked to go above and beyond to keep earning those points and get to the top of the leaderboard. Don't forget to ask your child(ren) daily how many house points they've earnt for their team! The leaderboard is posted weekly via Twitter @MilefieldP
Points will carry over to Summer term 2 so keep earning those points by:
- Completing homework to a high standard
- Being in school on time every day
- Wearing full uniform for school and PE
- Producing your best possible work at all times
- Showing the best possible behaviour at all times
UKS2 Football club with Mr Trickett: Wednesdays
Knitting club with Mrs Archer: Wednesdays
Dance club with Tyler: Wednesdays
Girls' Football club with Mr Branigan: Thursdays
Summer Term Dates for your diary
Monday 6th June - school re-opens at 8.45am for summer term 2
Monday 6th - 10th June - Y1 Phonics Screening week
Friday 17th June - 9am - Parents/Carers' coffee morning
Friday 17th June - Y5/6 Able Maths Day @ Milefield (Cross-Trust)
20th-24th June - We are who we are & who we love week
Wednesday 22nd June - Y3/4 Winners' ENTERPRISE FINALS - Metrodome
Monday 27th April - 3.30pm - Y5 parents' Tower Wood residential info session
30th June - HCAT Sports Tournament - Details to follow...
1st July - Y2 Treat Day - Circus Skills
Monday 4th July - EYFS Sports Day - details to follow...
Monday 4th July - Y6 pupils' Shafton transition day
Tuesday 5th July - KS2 Sports Day - details to follow...
Tuesday 5th July - Y6 SATs results published
Wednesday 6th July - KS1 Sports Day - details to follow...
Wednesday 6th July - Y6 London Trip - late start - return Thursday 7th July
Thursday 7th July - Reports out to parents
Friday 8th July - SCHOOL CLOSED FOR INSET
Friday 8th July - Hemsworth Outwood transition for Y6 pupils
Monday 11th July - Y6 inflatable day
Tuesday 12th July/Wednesday 13th July - Parent/carer meetings
Thursday 14th July - 3.30pm - Y6 leavers' party
Friday 15th July - 9am - Parents/Carers' Coffee Morning
Monday 18th July - Parents/carers/pupils informed of next year's teacher
Mon 18th July - 3.30pm - Meet your child's new teacher - all teachers on the yard at the end of the day
Tuesday 19th July - Transition day - pupils spend the day with their new teacher
Wednesday 20th July - Y6 final day & shirt signing
Wednesday 20th July - SCHOOL CLOSES FOR SUMMER - 3.15pm
Do not forget to add us on twitter @MilefieldP or @mfps_parents You can also contact our dedicated email for parents - MFPS.parents@hcacademytrust.education
Credits:
Created with images by AnnaPa - "May Lily Blooming Retro" • Hermann - "books stack literature" • fizkes - "Happy family black father and kid daughter reading story book" • Tumisu - "graph chart investment" • geralt - "important polaroid imprint" • Mysticsartdesign - "library heaven birds" • Comfreak - "solar system sun mercury" • congerdesign - "magic cube patience tricky" • Bessi - "marguerite daisy flower"