Millfields Mag FRIDAY November 15th 2013

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We have really enjoyed all the trips, workshops and visitors connected with Work Week. This is now an annual event and the children all really enjoy learning about different jobs and visi ng a variety of places of work including Year 2 visit to Shoreditch Fire Sta on, Y3 visi ng the Bank of England, Y1 visit to Dalston Library, Year 4 visit to the Na onal Theatre, Year 5 market place sale which takes place this a ernoon, and Year 6 wowing city bankers in the Dragon’s Den! Thank you also to the many parents who came in to share stories and in‐forma on about their jobs with the children.  Also, Year 5 con nued with their chess lessons this week. Each week they learn a new move and strategy and then the children and adults play games against each other. The sessions are led by a chess tutor from Chess in Schools. There will be a Chess Club star ng a er school and at lunch me in the New Year. Today, the children in the Children Centre, Nursery and Recep on are all taking part in the Children in Need appeal by wearing their pyjamas to school! The children were all very excit‐ed about not wearing their uniform, and were thrilled to see their teachers wearing pyjamas to school as well! Thank you also to all the parents in Year 1 and Year 2 who came to the Maths Workshops yesterday and today. They were well a ended and hopefully gave informa on on how the children are taught Maths in school so you can help your child at home. There will be 3 more sessions over the next few weeks –look out for more informa on and texts to remind you. The Book Fair has also started this week. It will be a er school, and for the full length of the Parents’ Evening on Wednesday 20th November. Please support the school to raise money for books to stock our school library. Also, if you have not already signed up for an appoint‐ment to see you child/ren’s class teacher, please sign up on the yellow board that will be outside the Year 1 class or in the main playground. As you may well know, the Millfields Christmas Single, ‘C‐H‐R‐I‐S‐T‐M‐A‐S’ is now available to buy as a CD or download on itunes. It is a very catchy song as you know, so you may hear staff and children con nually humming or singing this over the next few weeks! The final video will be released next week, and as ever if you know anyone in the media, anyone fa‐mous or influen al –please pass on the details! Check the website, flyers, posters and texts for informa on on how you can help to raise money for our new playground!  Next Saturday –23rd November from 10am‐2pm, there will be a Family Road Safety Event at the Children’s Centre. Kirby the Cone will be visi ng so be sure to come and enjoy the fun! And finally, a reminder that the school photographer will be in school on Monday 18th No‐vember. All of the children will have a single and family photo taken on this day. Thank you for your con nued support. I hope you have a good weekend. Best Wishes, Jane 

Important Dates Friday 15th November 

PSA Disco 14th‐20th November 

PSA Book Fair Mon 18th November 

Individual photos Weds 20th November Parents Evening 2 ‐ 8pm Mon 9th December Christmas single released 10th ‐ 12th December 

Year 2 Na vity plays Fri 13th December 

Christmas Fair 16th –18th December 

Winter concerts Fri 20th December 

Non uniform day 2pm Last day of term 

A endance &  Punctuality 

Our school target: 96%  Last week:  97% 

Winning classes last week: Seoul (99%) and 

Vancouver (99%). 

Headteacher’s  Surgery 

Monday 18th Nov 2‐3 School tours:  

Friday 22nd Nov 11am Please call the office to book an appointment. 

Tuck Shop Well done to Rome class who raised £83.86 at last week’s tuck shop. Con‐gratula ons and thank you for your support. 

PSA A er‐school Tuck Shops  Autumn 2013 Below is a list of the classes responsible for running the tuck shop each week. Please see you class PSA rep if you would like to help. All dona ons of food should be taken to the office on the day 

Thurs 14th , Mon 18th & Tues 19th Nov 3:30-4:15 and 5:00-6:00 Friday 15th Nov 3:30-4:15

Weds 20th Nov 4:00-8:00 (during parents evening) The book selection will have something for everyone and if you buy a book you will get a raffle ticket (ten £5 book vouchers to be won) as well as a voucher for a free day out for kids at Sealife, Chessington World of Adventures or Warwick Castle. The commission we make on the sales will enable us to buy lots more books for the library and classes. You will find us in the Bottom Hall. Hope to see you there! THE PSA

Tuesday 10th December 2pm Nativity play—Year 2 Rio at St

James’ Church Clapton Wednesday 11th December

2pm Nativity play—Year 2 Rome at St James’ Church, Clapton Thursday 12th December

2pm Nativity play—Year 2 Mexico City at St James’ Church, Clapton Monday 16th December

9:30am or 1:30pm Early years sharing concert –Yellow, Green, Red, Blue and Orange at Millfields

Tuesday 17th December 11am or 2pm Year 1 and 2 Sharing concert—Paris, Calgary, Vancou-

ver, Rome, Rio and Mexico City at Clapton Academy Wednesday 18th December

11am Year 3 and 4 Sharing concert—Helsinki, Moscow, Innsbruck, Seoul, Tokyo and Barcelona at Clapton Academy

2pm Year 5 and 6 Sharing concert—Oslo, Grenoble, Athens, New York Beijing and London at Clapton Academy

Date  Class Fri 22nd Nov  Tokyo Fri 29th Nov  Seoul Fri 6th Dec  Vancouver Fri 13th Dec  Innsbruck 

SHARING ASSEMBLIES ‐ Autumn Term 2013 

Date (Fridays)  EY and KS1(Top Hall @ 9.05am)  LKS2 and UKS2 (Middle Hall @ 9.05am) 

22.11.13  Orange Class (Sara)    Tokyo Class  

(Rebecca)   

29.11.13    Rio Class (Naomi)    Beijing Class 

(Nicole) 

6.12.13  Nursery ‐ Green am (Saska)    Barcelona Class 

(Mehmet)   

13.12.13    Calgary Class (Sevilay)    Athens Class 

(Leon) 

Christmas Single Update - HELP US GET A NEW PLAYGROUND!

It has been a really busy and exciting week but we have done it! The song is now finished and available to download. The music video will be availa-ble next week. The press have started to show an interest. What we need now is for every Millfields family to do everything they can to spread the message around Hackney, the UK and even the world so that 1000s of people buy our download. So please make time as a family to have a look through this list this weekend and do as many of the following as you can. 1) Like our Facebook page, Share it with your friends. Comment on our postings. https://www.facebook.com/#!/millfieldscommunityschoolfundraising

Follow us on Twitter. Re-tweet our messages. @MCS_Hackney Watch, like and comment on the YouTube promotional video (we have already had over 1600 views!) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUlmE-HdA0 2) If you are not on Facebook and/or Twitter please send an e-mail to everyone you can think of giving them the links and asking them to do all or any of the above. 3) Visit the webshop and order copies of the CD, the Christmas Cards and the whole school photo. Ask family to do the same. http://www.millfieldscommunityschool.kartel.uk.com/ 4) MOST important – download the single (it’s only 99p) on iTunes (just search “Millfields”) and ask your friends/family to do the same. Leave a customer review when you purchase (click on the photo to access) – this helps our profile and encourages other people to buy it as well. We need to sell A LOT of copies if we are going to make any impact on the charts! We will be adding extra outlets soon. 5) START A BUYING CHAIN - Buy a copy of the song for a friend on iTunes using the "Gift this song" option - ask them to leave a review and buy a copy for one of their friends – and so on! 6) Put the leaflet that your child brought home earlier this week in your window. 7) We are also looking for volunteers to post leaflets locally – if you can volunteer for the road you live on please contact info@lindaculverwell.com asap letting her know how many copies you need. To everyone who has been working on this project – a heartfelt thank you. Everyone involved has been so generous with their time, expertise and resources and we’ve done it! Now we just need to get the world to fall in love with it……and BUY IT! Any queries e-mail clare.wooldridge91@gmail.com and she will point you to the right person on the project team. THANK YOU! This article will be posted on the school website so you can go through to the relevant links more easily.

Would you or your business like to sponsor the printing of our Christ‐mas raffle tickets?  If you can donate prizes please let us know.Pierre Larue mill‐fieldspsa@gmail.com (or on 07940 399171).  

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