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

• Archery lessons in school

  Wed 20 Nov 2024

  Jays have been developing their hand eye coordination as well as their sportsmanship, They have been learning Archery in school and they were very good at helping each other and congratulating each other. 

  

• Anti bullying week 2024

  Fri 15 Nov 2024

  Swans class have been learning about kindness and friendship for anti bullying week. Swans made their own friendships cards, choosing tools and colours they would like to add to their chosen design, before choosing a peer they would like to give their card too. Swans used symbols to choose and identify their friends. We then shared and read our cards at the end of the lesson and gave them to our chosen friend. 

  

• Maths Week England

  Fri 15 Nov 2024

  Mathematicians across the school have very much enjoyed participating in a broad range of maths activities as part of Maths Week England. Across the week, children explored and used a wide range of resources and manipulatives linked to different domains, covering number, pattern, shape and size!

  

• Gymnastics for Blackbirds class

  Wed 13 Nov 2024

  Blackbirds enjoyed their first visit to gymnastics where we learned how to travel in different ways and got used to the apparatus. We can't wait for our next visit. 

  

• Remembrance day 2024

  Mon 11 Nov 2024

  Pupils across school learned about and commemorated Remembrance day by making and wearing poppies and by observing the 2 minute silence. Pupils learned about what remembrance day is and why it happens.  

  

• 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