Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• October Newsletter 2024

  Fri 25 Oct 2024

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• Music for Autism are back!!!

  Thu 24 Oct 2024

  Back by popular demand, Music for Autism came to visit. Children love interacting with the musicians, watching and learning about their instruments and dancing along to the variety of different tunes they play. 

  

• Harvest at Southfield

  Thu 17 Oct 2024

  This year to celebrate and learn about Harvest, Father Darren came in and spoke to the children about what Harvest is, and how we can help people. We asked families to donate any foods they can to support our local food bank, based at the bottom of our road. 

  The Junior Leadership team will deliver the donations to the food bank and learn about some of the work they do there and learn how they support local families. 

   

  Hatfield Foodbank | Helping Local People in Crisis

  

• GRAND OPENING OF NEW BUILDING AT SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL

  Thu 10 Oct 2024

  Southfield School were delighted to welcome several VIP guests to witness the grand opening of our fabulous new building by Lady Salisbury, Annie Brewster (High Sheriff) and Father Darren Collins.

  The new building contains two state of the art classrooms, both include separate wet rooms, kitchens and toilet facilities. An amazing sensory room, and outside play areas providing playground equipment allowing the children the opportunity to socialise, play and develop essential key skills regardless of their abilities.

  Southfield School is a primary school with pupils who have learning difficulties which include autism, speech language and communication needs, global development delay and other conditions. The addition of this fantastic new building will enable us to increase the school capacity to accommodate 100 pupils.

  Angela O’Rourke, Headteacher, said “I would like to extend a huge thank you to all those people who joined us on this incredible journey”.

  

• World Mental health day and our sponsored event

  Thu 10 Oct 2024

  On Thursday 10th October, in recognition of world mental health day, we worked with the children on how physical activity can boost mental health. 

  Following on from a generous delivery of scooters recently, we decided that we would use these to host a fundraising event to raise funds to build our own onsite forest school. Having a forest school onsite for the pupils would support pupils by improving confidence, behaviour, physical and social skills, emotional wellbeing, language and communication, concentration, knowledge and understanding of the world.

   

  We did well so far in raising funds- Southfield School - on site Forest School - JustGiving

• Sharing afternoons

  Fri 04 Oct 2024

  This week has been sharing afternoon week at Southfield. We host these once a term. It is a chance for parents and carers to come into school for the afternoon and spend time in their child's class, see what they are learning and join in some activities. It's a great way for parents to meet each other build those relationships with other families. 

  

• National Poetry day 2024

  Thu 03 Oct 2024

  Classes this week have been spending time reading and listening to poems and understanding what poetry is. Classes have been having a go at writing their own poems as well after listening to a range of poets.