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Headteacher’s Surgery: Wednesday 21st March 2pm—3pm

School tours: Thursday 15th March at 11am

Hilsea Street

Hackney E5 0SH

TEL : 020 8985 7898

Important Dates

Thurs 15th March

Y5 Shadowball

performance at

Hackney Empire

Tues 20th March

Parent’s Evening

4:00-5:30 pm

Weds 21st March

Parent’s Evening

3:40—8:00

Thurs 22nd March

School Photos

Mon 16th April

&

Mon 9th July

Inset Day

Mon 28thMay

to

Friday 1st June

Art week

PSA Tuckshop

Well done Rio class for

raising £92.24

at their tuck shop last

week.

As you will hopefully know, each school in the Olympic GetSet Network has two Olympic Ambassa-

dors. The ambassadors for Millfields are Year 5 pupils, Alecia Mansell and Jack Robinson. The am-

bassadors have been taking part in a 5 day training programme and will be presen7ng their work

to the other children in the school over the next few weeks. They are taking their role very serious-

ly and have worked very hard, so they will be sharing their work and more about their role in the

Mag over the next few weeks.

Thank you to all the parents who came to Sharing Assemblies this week and to all the parents who

took part in the Spanish workshop that was led by Belen our Spanish teacher –I hope you found it

useful. Please let us know what else you would like to find out about the curriculum at Millfields.

Parent workshops take place on Friday mornings at 9.30am. Next week, the school Catering Man-

ager will be talking about healthy school food and healthy packed lunches and offering food sam-

ples, and the following week, Roz will be talking about music provision at Millfields.

Year 5 children con7nue to work hard on their produc7on of Shadowball. The children in Years1 -6

will have the opportunity to see the performance during the a@ernoon on Thursday 15th

March.

There are s7ll 7ckets available for the evening performance directly from the Hackney Empire.

Again this week we have had several visi7ng educa7on professionals in school. Jon Abbey from the

Learning trust and headteacher colleagues paid an impromptu visit on Wednesday. They walked

around the whole school and were very impressed with the school ethos, the learning behaviours

of staff and children and the quality of the interac7ons they observed, as well as the quality of

marking that is helping pupils move forward in their learning.

On Tuesday, members of the A@er-school Judo Club visited the Olympic Park. The children were

congratulated on their behaviour and the quality of the ques7ons they asked by the staff at the

park, so well done to everyone, you were real ambassadors for the school.

I will also be keeping you updated over the next few weeks, with the school building and play-

ground developments. The PSA and some of the support staff have visited other school play-

grounds to look at good prac7ce and use of space, and there are also two parent architects work-

ing very closely with the school and the Learning Trust on building developments to accommodate

the transi7on to 3 form entry.

Just a reminder that Parents’ Evenings are on Tuesday 20th

and Wednesday 21st

March. Sign up

sheets will be ready at beginning of next week.

I hope you have a good weekend. Best Wishes, Jane

SHARING ASSEMBLIES - Spring Term 2012

Date(Fridays) EY and KS1(Bo7om Hall @ 9.10am) LKS2 and UKS2 (Top Hall @ 9.10pm)

16.3.12 Calgary (Sara) New York (Leon)

23.3.12 Yellow (Rana) Seoul (Cheryl)

30.3.12 Paris (Ashraf) Grenoble (Alex)

PSA A;er-school Tuck Shops Spring 2012 Below is a list of the classes responsible for running the tuck shop each week. Please see your class PSA rep

if you would like to help. All dona<ons of food should be taken to the office on the day of the tuck shop.

Help us to keep Tuck Shops a nut-free

zone! A reminder that to reflect school policy food provided for the weekly Tuck Shops should not contain nuts. Par-ents of children with allergies please note that we cannot guarantee that food at Tuck Shops is nut free but we will add this reminder to the leaflets we send out to parents in advance

Community Fitness Classes

Millfields Community School

Saturdays 10-11AM ONLY £1

Followed by

ZUMBA Fitness

Saturdays 11 –12PM ONLY £3

Come and have fund whilst dropping

the pounds . Bring a boFle of water,

wear comfortable shoes and loose

clothing .

For more informa<on contact

Tricia on 07540 059 592

Date Class

Friday 16th Mar Mexico City

Friday 23rd Mar Calgary

PSA EVENING MEETING We have scheduled an evening meeting at 7pm on Thursday 29th March in the Bottom Hall for

those who cannot make daytime meetings. Please come along if you can to hear about our plans for

next term and share your ideas. ALL WELCOME!

Non Uniform Day A total of £233.18 was raised for non uniform day. Thanks for your support.

Estrella De La Semana

Stem Group A group of pupils in year 6 have been brought together to form our

first STEM club. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering

and Maths. The children will be doing a different inves7ga7on each

week and will share their work in class, in assemblies and on the

Millfields Mag, This week the group worked with a company that

makes computer games. They spent some 7me building their own

games and then advised the programmers on how to make their

games even beFer. Their games are on a website called Wordia:

www.wordia.com which is a free games-based learning plaGorm

with interac7ve video vocabulary. The children made their own ava-

tars and some of them won T shirts with these printed onto them.

Please have a look at the

Wordia website if you have a

moment. There is lots of

praise for our fantas7c

STEM pupils on the blog.

We will be working with

Wordia over the next 2

terms to develop vocabu-

lary based learning.

Children ‘s CentreChildren ‘s CentreChildren ‘s CentreChildren ‘s Centre

Fabulous Foundation Holiday Club Easter Holidays PLAYSCHEME FOR CHILDREN

AGED 3-8, 10th April-13th April

Places limited Book by 23/03/12 to avoid

disappointment check availability for children over 5’s.

PRICES:

Half Day—£15.00 (8-1 or 1-6)

Full Day—£30.00 Full Week—£120.00

10% DISCOUNT FOR FAMILIES

RECEIVING INCOME SUPPORT

Foundation Years After Schools Clubs Spring 2 2012Start/Finish Dates: 5th February – 30 March

Fun Ac7vi7es include:

Drama, Cooking, KniLng, Dance and Yoga

Price £3.50 Con £1.75

Pen LicencesPen LicencesPen LicencesPen Licences

Well done Tia Barrett-Young, Yasmin Jaylan & Raheema Bala

Pen License are awarded to children who consistently present their

work well and allow the child to use a pen to write all their work.

Music In Assembly Every week, each class from Recep7on to Year 6 has a Cele-

bra7on Assembly when we all congratulate children who

have earned 3 Happy Faces in class , celebrate the teacher's

choice for 'Star of the Week', and celebrate any other suc-

cesses that children have achieved the previous week. This

term, I would like to introduce the idea of children sharing

their musical talent in this assembly. Please talk to your

children and ask if they would be willing to play an instru-

ment at the beginning of one of the Celebra-

7on Assemblies. I hope to have a rota so that everyone has

an opportunity to play. If your child is interested, please ask

them to come and speak to me or write me an email/leFer

to let me know what they would like to play.

Many thanks, Jane

Healthy Packed Lunches

As a Healthy School we do a lot of

work with children to help them to

make healthy choices. Most children do this very well and tell us about their

good habits.

We have no7ced recently that some

packed lunches do not contain a bal-

anced meal for the children.

Please do not send chocolate, sugary

drinks or sweets to school.

Thank you for your support with this.

Turkish Speaking Parents

Sayın Veliler,

Okulumuzda Türkiye Cumhuriye7 Londra Eği7m Müşavirliği

rehber öğretmeni Gülay ÖZTÜRK taraVndan anne babalara

yönelik çeşitli konularda veli bilgilendirme seminerleri

verilecek7r. Rehber öğretmen taraVndan velilere yönelik

“Etkili İle7şim Becerileri, Okul-Aile İşbirliği, Ailenin Çocuk

Eği7mi Üzerindeki Etkisi, Anne-Baba Tutumlarının Çocuklar

Üzerindeki Etkisi” gibi konularda seminerler düzenlenecek7r.

Türkçe verilecek olan bu seminerler Türkçe konuşan tüm

velilere yönelik7r. Seminerlerle ilgili detaylı bilgi Miss İfeoma

Udeaja’dan alınabilir.

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