All children are invited to wear their PE kit into school this Friday 14^th November and take part in a Children in Need challenge

We will be challenging all pupils to run, walk or jog 10 laps of our Golden Mile playground circuit (each lap is 160 metres x 10 = 1,600m = 1.6km = 1 mile) but they will only have 15 minutes to do this!

This will be a challenge of strength and stamina (some of our older pupils will probably complete more than a mile some of your younger pupils less than this – their challenge will be to complete as many as they can in the 15 minutes allocated).

Unfortunately, the weather forecast is very poor for Friday at the moment – hopefully this will change and improve over the week – if it doesn’t we will move our challenge indoors and set our pupils some physical challenges to complete in our hall instead!

 Parents / carers are asked to donate£1 or more via ParentPay with all funds going to Children in Need.

Thank you for your support of Odd Socks Day today to mark the start of Anti Bullying Week.

 In our KS2 assembly this morning pupils were reminded about the types of bullying and the importance of telling a trusted adult so that any bullying can be dealt with.

Bullying will not be tolerated at our school.

We have a special Armistice Day assembly tomorrow (Tuesday 11th November) with a two minute silence at 11.00am.

Thank you to our School Council for all their hard work selling poppies and other items last week to raise funds for the Royal British Legion. 

We are also grateful to those School Council pupils who attended the service at Fazeley War Memorial yesterday and presented a wreath of poppies in remembrance of those from our local community and beyond who have been involved in conflicts.

The school can confirm that after Christmas Mr Wiggett will step up from deputy head teacher to acting head teacher of the school for the spring term 2026.

Our trust (Community Academies Trust) is well under way with the recruitment of a new head teacher with interviews scheduled for January 2026. It is hoped that a new head teacher will be in place for April 2026.

Mrs Smith will be taking on the role of Assistant Head Teacher from January.

She will increase her hours in school from 3 days a week to full time during the course of this appointment – she will teach four days in Year 6 and then be released for one day a week to focus specifically on school improvement / Assistant Head Teacher duties.

Mr Wiggett and Mrs Smith will over the next term, receive leadership and management support from an experienced head teacher in the trust for one day a week.

Mr Atkins has been invited to join the Senior Leadership Team from January 2026 to increase the management capacity across the school.

In January 2026 we will also be joined by a new teacher in Year 1.

Miss Cubberley will be replacing Mrs Bates in 1BT.

We are very grateful to Mrs Bates for her hard work during her extended period in Year 1.

Miss Cubberley will be teaching in 1BT on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with Miss Taylor teaching on Thursday and Friday.

If you have any questions or queries about these arrangements please do not hesitate to contact: headteacher@millfield.staffs.sch.uk