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Manor Fields News Spring 2018 WELCOME TO THE NEW NEWSLETTER www.manorfields.herts.sch.uk A new look for the new year and beyond @MFPrimary
Welcome to our New-look Termly News! Admissions Information
I am delighted to welcome you to our new-look newsletter.
Parents who are considering applying for Manor Fields Nursery in September
This will not a replacement for our weekly information 2018 may be interested to know that from the start of the 2018 - 19 academic
newsletters, but is a celebration of what your children have year, the school will be offering wrap-around care for nursery-aged children.
done over the last few months. We plan to publish this This high quality provision will include breakfast and afterschool clubs that can
newsletter every term and, in the future, it will feature a be tailored to meet your childcare needs.
resumé of class news as well as many of the wonderful events Manor Fields will have one intake in September 2018 for children born from 1
and activities that have happened at Manor Fields. As you will September 2014 and 31 August 2015. Applications will open on Monday 5
see with this first edition, we hope to bring you lots of lovely February and close on Friday 16 March 2018. Parents who apply will be advised
photos of the children getting involved and having fun - there by letter on 23 April 2018 if they have been successful in obtaining a place.
is always such a lot going on!
Parents who are interested in applying for a Nursery place are invited to join
In this issue we cover Harvest, Christmas, the Grove Cottage Nursery staff for ‘stay and play’ sessions with their children. These will be
Art Gallery and Science Week. running during February; please contact the school office on 01279 757193 or
Happy reading! In This Issue: email admin@manorfields.herts.sch.uk for further details.
Mrs Helen Smith 2 Welcome
Headteacher
3 Harvest & Christmas
Sporting Champions! Craft Day
4 Christmas
5 Grove Cottage Art
Fun at the Panto!
6 Science Week
On 11 December, Years 3,4,5 and 6 visited the Rhodes Centre to watch the annual
8 What’s Coming Up pantomime, Snow White.
All children and staff
thoroughly enjoyed the
Manor Fields are the new County
show - and some even got
Basketball champions!
on stage to really join in the
After one year of practising, Manor
fun! We are looking
Fields have made a massive
improvement from being 5th last forward to next year’s 3
year in the district, to County performance of Beauty and
2
Champions! the Beast.
Harvest
Last term was a busy one and was punctuated by some wonderful
whole school events. The Harvest Assembly which took place in
October was our annual celebration and thanks for all that we
Christmas Craft Day
have. The children took part in a heart-warming assembly which On Christmas Craft Day dressed for the festive season,
was watched by many of our parents. The school also collected the children, staff, parent and grandparent helpers got
food and grocery items for Bishop’s Stortford Food Bank. stuck into (literally) all the activities. There was
handprinting, bookmark-making, finger painting,
Following the Harvest assembly, parents were invited to Open
glueing and sticking all day long – everyone was
Classrooms where they had the chance to see what has been
extremely busy and the resulting decorations were
going on so far in the year. It was lovely to see parents and their
wonderful! We had lots of help and all our visitors
children looking through and discussing the work.
were treated to a cup of tea and a mince pie at break
time. A big thank you to all those who came into help
on the day. It makes a big difference and your
participation is much appreciated.
Left: Harvest
Assembly and
Open Classrooms
Below, right and
above right: Pupils
and helpers having
fun on Christmas
Craft Day
3 3
Christmas
Our Christmas performances are always much anticipated. This
year Reception children presented The Christmas Story, and Years
1 and 2 performed Baubles - A Tree-mendous Nativity. A full
house of parents, grandparents and friends watched all of the
performances with much delight. They were wonderful shows; all
the children worked very hard and performed beautifully.
Nursery children also performed a nativity play for parents which
was equally wonderful. We are very proud of their energy and
enthusiasm especially at the end of a long term. It was a great
way to round off and celebrate prior to finishing for the Christmas
break.
5
4
Butterflies
Amazing Art! - Grove Cottage Gallery
Year 2
Year 3
The Manor Fields Art Gallery was open for
business in November. All of our children had
been busy creating amazing pieces of art which
Year 4 were displayed in the hall and then auctioned off
as part of the Grove Cottage Grow a £1 appeal.
We were delighted to welcome many parents to
the gallery as well as Richard Smith and Tracy
Fisher from Grove Cottage. Everyone was very
Reception impressed with the quality of the art on display.
In total we raised £828 for Grove Cottage.
Excellent work everyone!
Year 1
Year 3
3 Year 6
Year 5
5
What’s Coming Up Fabulous Science Week!
February As part of our topics this term, we held a Science Week for all year groups towards the end of January. The children were very
March 12 - 16 Half term hands-on and were keen to get involved in all things Science! They enjoyed carrying out a variety of experiments which included
examining how colour is dispersed, how and why raisins float in lemonade, and the frequency at which a dropped slice of bread
1 National Book Day falls butter-side down! Watching the colour bleed out from a plate of Skittles was really exciting! We were delighted and
12 Life Bus Week grateful to the team from GSK who organised the workshops: Becky Scott, Jo Storey, Phil Hackett and Philip Burston. Thanks
19 Run for Fun for Sports Relief also to Neema Jabbar, Stacey Collings, Lucy Storey, Katie Nykanen, Louisa Kirby, Rachel Hackett, Natasha Smith and Cheryl
Barber for assisting with the workshops.
20 World Down Syndrome Day
27 Parent Consultations - Yrs R,2 & 6 It was a wonderful way for the children to learn and expand their scientific knowledge; and we all had lots of fun in the process!
3.30pm-5.30pm
28 Parent Consultations - Yrs R,2 & 6
3.30pm-5.00pm and 5.30pm - 7.30 pm
29 Term ends
April
16 Term starts
May
KS1 SATs this month
7 Bank Holiday
14 - 18 KS2 SATs
21 Outdoor Learning Week
27 - 31 Half Term
June
4 INSET Day
Fabulous Science Mark!
July We are also delighted to report that last term we became the proud recipients of
2 Year 4 Fossey to Burwell Primary Science Quality Mark, Silver Award given to us the University of Hertford-
9 Year 4 Darwin to Burwell shire and the Why & How Primary Science Teaching Trust. This recognises all the
10 Year 6 Evening Production Full term dates and calendar hard work and dedication from our staff in the area of Science. As last week’s
12 Move Up Day Science Week shows, we are continually working towards expanding and sparking
information is available on the
your children’s interest in Science.
24 30th Birthday Celebrations school website:
25 Term Ends www.manorfields.herts.sch.uk
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Manor Fields Primary School
Penningtons, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 4LE
tel: 01279 757193
e-mail: admin@manorfields.herts.sch.uk
www.manorfields.herts.sch.uk
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