Happy New Year and welcome back to all our children and families. The children have returned looking well-rested, much taller and with lots of stories about their holidays with family and friends.

We also welcomed Kimberlie back to teaching in Y1 Karisimbi Class. We have also welcomed a few new children and their families to different classes across the school this week, but also said 'goodbye' to families who have moved out of Hackney, and in some cases out of London. Good luck to them in their new schools!

It has been a busy first week back and we have loved our learning, especially today as it is 'Hispanic Day'. We really enjoyed seeing all the children and staff dressed up to celebrate all things Hispanic. Some great costumes and lots of colours from the flags of Spanish-speaking countries -thank you for making the effort and for your donations.

As part of this week's learning, children across the school have been learning about different artists including Miro in EY and KS1 and Gaudi in KS2. They have produced some lovely artwork from class paintings, individual masterpieces, to clay models and mosaics. We are hoping to display some of this around school in the next few weeks. Some year-groups have also been researching a different Hispanic country and have learnt lots of new information and facts! Classes in Y3 -Y6  have also been learning a few Salsa and Flamenco moves during PE lessons, and Y1 and Y2 have been making lovely Spanish tapas snacks. Thank you everyone for joining in and making this a fun first week!  All of the week's activities wouldn't have been possible without the enthusiasm and organisation from the staff and manly Debi who planned the activities -'thank you' Debi!

Also this morning, reception classes have been out and about in the local area looking at the changing seasons, (and we have seen a few different weather types this week). especially the change in trees over the year. Also this week, Acaenago Class visited Cardinal Pole Secondary School to take part in a Data Detectives Workshop in their labs -the children had a great time and learnt lots, as well as get to experience life in a secondary school. Other Y5 and Y4 classes will be visiting Cardinal Pole over the next few weeks.

Next week, class WOW trips will be starting -these are trips to enhance in-school learning; it adds context and interest to the class topic! . Reception Classes will be visiting the Science Museum and Y1 classes will be visiting Stepney City Farm. If you are able to support any trips, please contact your child's class teacher directly. Please make sure that you have signed the 'All London Trips letter' ASAP and also made a contribution to WOW trips via SCOpay if you have not already done so. Many thanks for your support. Look out for details of trip on Google Classroom. Please make sure that you and your child check's Google Classroom for information and home learning projects/homework. The termly learning booklet for each class will be sent out via email and posted there early next week.

The Millfields Food Stall starts again next week, and as always, the families using the Family Food Stall are so grateful and it makes such a difference in these tough times for us all. We are always grateful for donations, so please drop any items to the main office on Tuesday, ready for the following day. We always need eggs, tins of soup, pasta, rice, tuna, tinned fruit, veg and meat soup and biscuits, as well as loo roll, washing powder and shower gel. Anything else is also gratefully received. Thank you!

Please also look out for dates for Y5 Kench Hill Parent Meetings, Y4 Times Tables test parent meetings and Y1 Phonics Test Parent meetings coming up this half term. Reminder texts will also be sent!

Finally, a reminder about school starting times. School starts at 8:40am for children in Nursery, Reception, Y1 & Y2, so you need to be at school for 8:35am so the children are in class and ready to learn at 8:40am. For children in Y3, Y4, Y5 & Y6, school starts at 8:50am, so please be at school for 8:45am so they are in class at 8.50am.

Have a good weekend. Stay warm and well. Take care. Jane

Hurrah, and thank you everyone, we made it, (well most of us) to the end of term! We celebrated the end of term today with 2 'Sing along' concerts with the children. All of the staff joined in and entertained the children with the ever popular Christmas songs to say a very, merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone. Everyone looked so festive today in their Christmas jumpers and Christmas colours and we have raised more than £300 for Save the Children -thank you!

It has been a long term but a very productive one for all the children and the school community - the children have worked so hard at school and home! This was evidenced brilliantly with the homework projects that the children have been bringing in and have beendisplayed in classes for us all to see.

Well done to all the classes - children and staff, for their amazing costumes, enthusiasm and beautiful singing for our Winter Concerts this week. Each concert was a delight, all different but all equally wonderful and really got us all in the Christmas spirit!  A big 'thank you' to the church for letting us use the venue over the last 2 weeks! Big, big thanks to all the staff for getting the children ready to perform, and 'big thanks' to the Music Teacher, Naomi,  and Tom and Lawrence for their brilliant musical accompaniment at every show.

A special 'well done' to the Nursery and Reception classes who started our week with a brilliant concert that they performed twice in front of a packed school hall. One of the highlights of my week for sure!, along with the wonderful Y6 children who performed so brilliantly at our last Millfields Christmas concert! Thank you to all of you for supporting your children and for joining in with the festive fun with some impressive singing and celebrations, and for your generous donations for the school and church.

Last week, all the classes took part in our now termlyTastEd Day. This was a food technology day where the children enjoyed eating, feeling, seeing and hearing (yes, hearing) a range of different fruits and vegetables. This was a great experience for the children to work with

food and expand their tastes. A huge thanks to Bruno for organising the lessons, and to parent Anna Jones and colleagues from TastEd for coming in to support us. And big thanks to food supplier Natoora for donating all the wonderful fresh produce! Millfields became a TasteEd Ambassador school this year, and Bruno has championed this, and all the brilliant work that the staff at Millfields and TasteEd do at local events as well as within Millfields.

Also this week, the children have all enjoyed a trip to somewhere in London this week for our traditional termly 'London Day'. The children have all reported that they enjoyed their class trips to places such as the National Gallery, Young V&A Museum, Natural Museum, The Wallace Collection, Tate Modern and Nursery visited the local library on their first trip out! It is so fantastic that we get to take the children to so many places in our wonderful city! Thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time to help out on the trips.

A huge ‘thank you’ to the whole school community who have been bringing in food donations for the Christmas Bags over the last few weeks. As ever, we are thankful for your individual and collective generosity. Massive thank you to Heather, Kate and others who helped Rema to get the Food Hampers ready! Thank you also to the parents who made cash donations to the Food Bank.

Thank you also, to all of you for the lovely gifts that the staff have received. You are very generous and giving, and it is very much appreciated!

And thank you for all your support during another busy term for us all, with a few new challenges as always, for children, staff and families, and as always, we have all worked together, so thank you everyone.

Finally we are sadly saying 'goodbye' to Cheneice, Trent Class Reception teacher who is leaving today and moving on to manage her own Nursery provision. I am sure that you will join me in thanking her for all her hard work and wishing her all the very best for the future.

Have a lovely holiday and enjoy the festive period. Term starts for the children on Monday 5th January. 'Merry Christmas' everyone. And 'Hanukkah Sameach' to those celebrating Hanukkah.

Take care, Jane

Hurrah, and thank you everyone, we made it, (well most of us) to the end of term! We celebrated the end of term today with 2 'Sing along' concerts with the children. All of the staff joined in and entertained the children with the ever popular Christmas songs to say a very, merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone. Everyone looked so festive today in their Christmas jumpers and Christmas colours and we have raised more than £300 for Save the Children -thank you!

It has been a long term but a very productive one for all the children and the school community - the children have worked so hard at school and home! This was evidenced brilliantly with the homework projects that the children have been bringing in and have beendisplayed in classes for us all to see.

Well done to all the classes - children and staff, for their amazing costumes, enthusiasm and beautiful singing for our Winter Concerts this week. Each concert was a delight, all different but all equally wonderful and really got us all in the Christmas spirit!  A big 'thank you' to the church for letting us use the venue over the last 2 weeks! Big, big thanks to all the staff for getting the children ready to perform, and 'big thanks' to the Music Teacher, Naomi,  and Tom and Lawrence for their brilliant musical accompaniment at every show.

A special 'well done' to the Nursery and Reception classes who started our week with a brilliant concert that they performed twice in front of a packed school hall. One of the highlights of my week for sure!, along with the wonderful Y6 children who performed so brilliantly at our last Millfields Christmas concert! Thank you to all of you for supporting your children and for joining in with the festive fun with some impressive singing and celebrations, and for your generous donations for the school and church.

Last week, all the classes took part in our now termlyTastEd Day. This was a food technology day where the children enjoyed eating, feeling, seeing and hearing (yes, hearing) a range of different fruits and vegetables. This was a great experience for the children to work with

food and expand their tastes. A huge thanks to Bruno for organising the lessons, and to parent Anna Jones and colleagues from TastEd for coming in to support us. And big thanks to food supplier Natoora for donating all the wonderful fresh produce! Millfields became a TasteEd Ambassador school this year, and Bruno has championed this, and all the brilliant work that the staff at Millfields and TasteEd do at local events as well as within Millfields.

Also this week, the children have all enjoyed a trip to somewhere in London this week for our traditional termly 'London Day'. The children have all reported that they enjoyed their class trips to places such as the National Gallery, Young V&A Museum, Natural Museum, The Wallace Collection, Tate Modern and Nursery visited the local library on their first trip out! It is so fantastic that we get to take the children to so many places in our wonderful city! Thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time to help out on the trips.

A huge ‘thank you’ to the whole school community who have been bringing in food donations for the Christmas Bags over the last few weeks. As ever, we are thankful for your individual and collective generosity. Massive thank you to Heather, Kate and others who helped Rema to get the Food Hampers ready! Thank you also to the parents who made cash donations to the Food Bank.

Thank you also, to all of you for the lovely gifts that the staff have received. You are very generous and giving, and it is very much appreciated!

And thank you for all your support during another busy term for us all, with a few new challenges as always, for children, staff and families, and as always, we have all worked together, so thank you everyone.

Finally we are sadly saying 'goodbye' to Cheneice, Trent Class Reception teacher who is leaving today and moving on to manage her own Nursery provision. I am sure that you will join me in thanking her for all her hard work and wishing her all the very best for the future.

Have a lovely holiday and enjoy the festive period. Term starts for the children on Monday 5th January. 'Merry Christmas' everyone. And 'Hanukkah Sameach' to those celebrating Hanukkah.

Take care, Jane

Hurrah, and thank you everyone, we made it, (well most of us) to the end of term! We celebrated the end of term today with 2 'Sing along' concerts with the children. All of the staff joined in and entertained the children with the ever popular Christmas songs to say a very, merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone. Everyone looked so festive today in their Christmas jumpers and Christmas colours and we have raised more than £300 for Save the Children -thank you!

It has been a long term but a very productive one for all the children and the school community - the children have worked so hard at school and home! This was evidenced brilliantly with the homework projects that the children have been bringing in and have beendisplayed in classes for us all to see.

Well done to all the classes - children and staff, for their amazing costumes, enthusiasm and beautiful singing for our Winter Concerts this week. Each concert was a delight, all different but all equally wonderful and really got us all in the Christmas spirit!  A big 'thank you' to the church for letting us use the venue over the last 2 weeks! Big, big thanks to all the staff for getting the children ready to perform, and 'big thanks' to the Music Teacher, Naomi,  and Tom and Lawrence for their brilliant musical accompaniment at every show.

A special 'well done' to the Nursery and Reception classes who started our week with a brilliant concert that they performed twice in front of a packed school hall. One of the highlights of my week for sure!, along with the wonderful Y6 children who performed so brilliantly at our last Millfields Christmas concert! Thank you to all of you for supporting your children and for joining in with the festive fun with some impressive singing and celebrations, and for your generous donations for the school and church.

Last week, all the classes took part in our now termlyTastEd Day. This was a food technology day where the children enjoyed eating, feeling, seeing and hearing (yes, hearing) a range of different fruits and vegetables. This was a great experience for the children to work with

food and expand their tastes. A huge thanks to Bruno for organising the lessons, and to parent Anna Jones and colleagues from TastEd for coming in to support us. And big thanks to food supplier Natoora for donating all the wonderful fresh produce! Millfields became a TasteEd Ambassador school this year, and Bruno has championed this, and all the brilliant work that the staff at Millfields and TasteEd do at local events as well as within Millfields.

Also this week, the children have all enjoyed a trip to somewhere in London this week for our traditional termly 'London Day'. The children have all reported that they enjoyed their class trips to places such as the National Gallery, Young V&A Museum, Natural Museum, The Wallace Collection, Tate Modern and Nursery visited the local library on their first trip out! It is so fantastic that we get to take the children to so many places in our wonderful city! Thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time to help out on the trips.

A huge ‘thank you’ to the whole school community who have been bringing in food donations for the Christmas Bags over the last few weeks. As ever, we are thankful for your individual and collective generosity. Massive thank you to Heather, Kate and others who helped Rema to get the Food Hampers ready! Thank you also to the parents who made cash donations to the Food Bank.

Thank you also, to all of you for the lovely gifts that the staff have received. You are very generous and giving, and it is very much appreciated!

And thank you for all your support during another busy term for us all, with a few new challenges as always, for children, staff and families, and as always, we have all worked together, so thank you everyone.

Finally we are sadly saying 'goodbye' to Cheneice, Trent Class Reception teacher who is leaving today and moving on to manage her own Nursery provision. I am sure that you will join me in thanking her for all her hard work and wishing her all the very best for the future.

Have a lovely holiday and enjoy the festive period. Term starts for the children on Monday 5th January. 'Merry Christmas' everyone. And 'Hanukkah Sameach' to those celebrating Hanukkah.

Take care, Jane

Hurrah, and thank you everyone, we made it, (well most of us) to the end of term! We celebrated the end of term today with 2 'Sing along' concerts with the children. All of the staff joined in and entertained the children with the ever popular Christmas songs to say a very, merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone. Everyone looked so festive today in their Christmas jumpers and Christmas colours and we have raised more than £300 for Save the Children -thank you!

It has been a long term but a very productive one for all the children and the school community - the children have worked so hard at school and home! This was evidenced brilliantly with the homework projects that the children have been bringing in and have beendisplayed in classes for us all to see.

Well done to all the classes - children and staff, for their amazing costumes, enthusiasm and beautiful singing for our Winter Concerts this week. Each concert was a delight, all different but all equally wonderful and really got us all in the Christmas spirit!  A big 'thank you' to the church for letting us use the venue over the last 2 weeks! Big, big thanks to all the staff for getting the children ready to perform, and 'big thanks' to the Music Teacher, Naomi,  and Tom and Lawrence for their brilliant musical accompaniment at every show.

A special 'well done' to the Nursery and Reception classes who started our week with a brilliant concert that they performed twice in front of a packed school hall. One of the highlights of my week for sure!, along with the wonderful Y6 children who performed so brilliantly at our last Millfields Christmas concert! Thank you to all of you for supporting your children and for joining in with the festive fun with some impressive singing and celebrations, and for your generous donations for the school and church.

Last week, all the classes took part in our now termlyTastEd Day. This was a food technology day where the children enjoyed eating, feeling, seeing and hearing (yes, hearing) a range of different fruits and vegetables. This was a great experience for the children to work with

food and expand their tastes. A huge thanks to Bruno for organising the lessons, and to parent Anna Jones and colleagues from TastEd for coming in to support us. And big thanks to food supplier Natoora for donating all the wonderful fresh produce! Millfields became a TasteEd Ambassador school this year, and Bruno has championed this, and all the brilliant work that the staff at Millfields and TasteEd do at local events as well as within Millfields.

Also this week, the children have all enjoyed a trip to somewhere in London this week for our traditional termly 'London Day'. The children have all reported that they enjoyed their class trips to places such as the National Gallery, Young V&A Museum, Natural Museum, The Wallace Collection, Tate Modern and Nursery visited the local library on their first trip out! It is so fantastic that we get to take the children to so many places in our wonderful city! Thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time to help out on the trips.

A huge ‘thank you’ to the whole school community who have been bringing in food donations for the Christmas Bags over the last few weeks. As ever, we are thankful for your individual and collective generosity. Massive thank you to Heather, Kate and others who helped Rema to get the Food Hampers ready! Thank you also to the parents who made cash donations to the Food Bank.

Thank you also, to all of you for the lovely gifts that the staff have received. You are very generous and giving, and it is very much appreciated!

And thank you for all your support during another busy term for us all, with a few new challenges as always, for children, staff and families, and as always, we have all worked together, so thank you everyone.

Finally we are sadly saying 'goodbye' to Cheneice, Trent Class Reception teacher who is leaving today and moving on to manage her own Nursery provision. I am sure that you will join me in thanking her for all her hard work and wishing her all the very best for the future.

Have a lovely holiday and enjoy the festive period. Term starts for the children on Monday 5th January. 'Merry Christmas' everyone. And 'Hanukkah Sameach' to those celebrating Hanukkah.

Take care, Jane

Hurrah, and thank you everyone, we made it, (well most of us) to the end of term! We celebrated the end of term today with 2 'Sing along' concerts with the children. All of the staff joined in and entertained the children with the ever popular Christmas songs to say a very, merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone. Everyone looked so festive today in their Christmas jumpers and Christmas colours and we have raised more than £300 for Save the Children -thank you!

It has been a long term but a very productive one for all the children and the school community - the children have worked so hard at school and home! This was evidenced brilliantly with the homework projects that the children have been bringing in and have beendisplayed in classes for us all to see.

Well done to all the classes - children and staff, for their amazing costumes, enthusiasm and beautiful singing for our Winter Concerts this week. Each concert was a delight, all different but all equally wonderful and really got us all in the Christmas spirit!  A big 'thank you' to the church for letting us use the venue over the last 2 weeks! Big, big thanks to all the staff for getting the children ready to perform, and 'big thanks' to the Music Teacher, Naomi,  and Tom and Lawrence for their brilliant musical accompaniment at every show.

A special 'well done' to the Nursery and Reception classes who started our week with a brilliant concert that they performed twice in front of a packed school hall. One of the highlights of my week for sure!, along with the wonderful Y6 children who performed so brilliantly at our last Millfields Christmas concert! Thank you to all of you for supporting your children and for joining in with the festive fun with some impressive singing and celebrations, and for your generous donations for the school and church.

Last week, all the classes took part in our now termlyTastEd Day. This was a food technology day where the children enjoyed eating, feeling, seeing and hearing (yes, hearing) a range of different fruits and vegetables. This was a great experience for the children to work with

food and expand their tastes. A huge thanks to Bruno for organising the lessons, and to parent Anna Jones and colleagues from TastEd for coming in to support us. And big thanks to food supplier Natoora for donating all the wonderful fresh produce! Millfields became a TasteEd Ambassador school this year, and Bruno has championed this, and all the brilliant work that the staff at Millfields and TasteEd do at local events as well as within Millfields.

Also this week, the children have all enjoyed a trip to somewhere in London this week for our traditional termly 'London Day'. The children have all reported that they enjoyed their class trips to places such as the National Gallery, Young V&A Museum, Natural Museum, The Wallace Collection, Tate Modern and Nursery visited the local library on their first trip out! It is so fantastic that we get to take the children to so many places in our wonderful city! Thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time to help out on the trips.

A huge ‘thank you’ to the whole school community who have been bringing in food donations for the Christmas Bags over the last few weeks. As ever, we are thankful for your individual and collective generosity. Massive thank you to Heather, Kate and others who helped Rema to get the Food Hampers ready! Thank you also to the parents who made cash donations to the Food Bank.

Thank you also, to all of you for the lovely gifts that the staff have received. You are very generous and giving, and it is very much appreciated!

And thank you for all your support during another busy term for us all, with a few new challenges as always, for children, staff and families, and as always, we have all worked together, so thank you everyone.

Finally we are sadly saying 'goodbye' to Cheneice, Trent Class Reception teacher who is leaving today and moving on to manage her own Nursery provision. I am sure that you will join me in thanking her for all her hard work and wishing her all the very best for the future.

Have a lovely holiday and enjoy the festive period. Term starts for the children on Monday 5th January. 'Merry Christmas' everyone. And 'Hanukkah Sameach' to those celebrating Hanukkah.

Take care, Jane