Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Jays Sporting Event January 2023
Wed 25 Jan 2023Jays had a great time at Woolgrove Primary, taking part in a Sporting event with them and another Primary School. It was lovely for the children to meet their peers from other schools. The children were excellent representatives of Southfield Primary and took part with gusto. We look forward to repeating the adventure in the future.Jays had a great time at Woolgrove Primary, taking part in a Sporting event with them and another Primary School. It was lovely for the children to meet their peers from other schools. The children were excellent representatives of Southfield Primary and took part with gusto. We look forward to repeating the adventure in the future.
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Exciting Award News
Mon 16 Jan 2023Over the past few years we have been working on gaining an accreditation to show that we are a mentally healthy school. We started working on this back in 2019 and on January 9th 2023 after 2 failed submissions, we finally received the ‘Healthy young minds in Herts accreditation for emotional wellbeing and mental health awareness’.
The kitemark accreditation is a process and an on-going developmental journey for the school whereby different schools will be at different stages of their emotional wellbeing and mental health journey. For a school to be awarded with the Healthy Young Minds in Herts kitemark; they would need to demonstrate reflective practice with clear actions on how to develop their good practice and have a clear plan about how to mitigate any gaps.
Part of the award is to complete a self-review tool which is a document to support schools to develop their own whole school approach to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing. As schools find themselves increasingly responding to the mental health difficulties of staff, parents and pupils, the whole school, early intervention approach has never been so needed.
Southfield is the 3rd special school in Hertfordshire to receive the accreditation.
The staff and Governors are over the moon at receiving the accreditation and the recognition for all the hard work that they have put into receiving the accreditation.
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Christmas at Southfield 2022
Wed 11 Jan 2023On December 14th 2022, Christmas at Southfield began. We started off with Christmas dinner and Christmas arts and craft activities.
Electric umbrella came in on the 15th to do some musical sessions with the children including singing and dancing.
Friday 15th, we had a very special visitor in the form of Santa come and see the children and bring them lots of gifts.
The children enjoyed class Christmas parties on Monday 19th and a Christmas movie night on Tuesday. They enjoyed watching Arthur Christmas with popcorn and snacks.
What a fantastic way to celebrate Christmas in school.
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Christmas Fete 2022
Wed 11 Jan 2023on December 10th 2022, we had our first Christmas fete since Covid. Not only was this our first main event since Covid, but it was the first event for our brand new FOSS team.
The afternoon was lovely, with lots of families current and past coming along to join in the fun and festivities.
The afternoon was a great success and we made a massive £1581.28. This is a good start to the funds we need to install new playground equipment and two sunken trampolines.
Well done to all involved and all that supported.