Micklem Newsletter

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas everyone! It has been an incredibly busy couple of weeks full of fun and festivities! We hope that you are looking forward to the Christmas break, and find time to relax and enjoy it as a family. There is lots to share in the newsletter this week: continued learning; fantastic performances; PTA fundraising events and trips. Please enjoy reading the latest updates. Thank you all for your continued support this year and we look forward to seeing what the new year will bring for Micklem.

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We will see you all on Monday 6th January to start 2025!

Have a fantastic break and STAY SAFE!

Experiences and Opportunities

Art Club Meet The Mayor!

On Tuesday 10th December, Art Club went to meet he Mayor of Dacorum as part of the prize for Bella winning the Christmas Card competition. They had a great time and got to sit in some very fancy chairs in very impressive rooms. Keep aiming high, Art Club!

Christmas Fayre and Elfridges

On Thursday 12th December, Children were invited to buy gifts at Elfridges to gift as Christmas presents. Our friendly elves supported the children to attend in their classes and have a wonderful time picking out gifts. On the same day, we also had our Christmas Fayre. This was full of exciting games, activities, raffles and we had a visit from the big man himself! Santa made himself comfy in Elfridges and delighted the children with a small gift. Thank you to everyone that supported in making these events successful and thank you for your generous contributions, both for the activities and for buying tickets and tokens. The Christmas Fayre made £1633.33 and we haven't finished counting the raffles yet! Thank you so much for contiuning to support the school.

Early Years Nativity

Nursery and Reception kicked off the last week of term with their dress rehearsal and performance of 'Baarmy Bethlehem'. They were brilliant, and it got everyone in the mood for a festive week. I was so impressed by the confidence on show throughout!

Key Stage 1 Nativity

And Key Stage 1 carried it on with their fantastic performances of 'Lights, Camel, Action'. Everyone had a lot of fun taking part in this and it looked to me like the adults had fun watching it as well. It was a brilliant performance from Year 1 and 2 and got everyone in the party spirit!

Carols Around The Tree

We celebrated the end of term in style with children, staff and parents/carers coming together for our annual Carols Around the Tree. We sang our hearts out and everyone felt truly festive! It was wonderful to see so many of you there. Well done to the winners of the raffles, who were announced during the morning. We also said goodbye to Delia (our school cook) who is retiring at the end of this term and Mrs Isufaj, who is moving on to her next challenge at a new school. We want to thank them both for all of their hard work at Micklem, and wish them all the best for the new year.

Miss Courtnell will be coming back in January to teach Year 4 and Miss Sentance and Mrs Potts will continue to teach in Year 5.

Christmas Dinner

Everyone was invited to take part in our Christmas Dinner today. The whole school enjoyed a festive roast dinner with their friends. Staff ate with the children and enjoyed one final hurrah before breaking up for Christmas. Brussel Sprouts were not the most popular part of the meal...who knew?!

Christmas Crafternoon

On Thursday 19th December year 6 met their reception buddies. The children loved working together to create a Christmas tealight and a salt-dough Christmas decoration. We all had so much fun and all the children are so excited to spend more time with their buddies: reading, playing games and crafting!

Forest School

We have been busy using hammers, palm drills and fire to make Christmas decorations at Forest School.

Of course we couldn't have a fire without marshmallows!

Class Dojo

This year, we have introduced Class Dojo. A way of celebrating individuals and classes that are following our school rules of:

Be Kind.

Show Respect.

Aim High.

Children will be able to receive one or two points for these core values from any member of staff. We will keep an eye on which individuals, classes and house groups are being the kindest, most respectful and ambitious over the year.

Blue House

400

Green House

385

Red House

476

Yellow House

374

Attendance

Nursery

71%

Reception

92.1%

Year 1

91.4%

Year 2

89%

Year 3

93.5%

Year 4

89.6%

Year 5

96.7%

Year 6

93.3%

Congratulations to Year 5 for aiming high with their attendance this week. The class will receive bonus Class Dojo points for Aiming High!

Learning of the Week

Every week, we celebrate extraordinary learning from two children in each class. It may be that they have pushed passed an obstacle in their learning; worked on their presentation; thought about how to help others amongst other things.

Our Learning of the Week for the last fortnight goes to:

Reception

All Reception children for a wonderful Nativity.

Year 1

Bella has been working exceptionally hard in English, extending her writing and challenging herself.

Eva always tries her best and has shown great attention to detail with her handwriting and punctuation in her sentences.

Year 2

Skye wrote a lovely independent narrative as Mog the cat from 'Mog's Christmas' using brilliant vocabulary to enhance her writing.

Emily has shown great editing skills, using her green pen to correct her work accurately.

Year 3

Archie has worked really hard and has really shone in his spelling sessions.

Orla has written a fabulous persuasive advert using rhetorical questions and powerful adjectives.

Year 4

Ellis has worked really hard and has shown great resilience and determination in all of his work.

Tamsyn and Sophia have aimed high when faced with challenging maths questions, working together and successfully answering correctly.

Year 5

Lexi has shown great independence in maths, aiming high and having a go on her own.

Archie has made some great contributions in guided reading using the text to justify his answer.

Year 6

Emmanuel consistently works hard in all lessons and really aims high.

Jessica has shown great resilience and has actively looked for ways to improve her work.

Sunshine Group- KS1

S.J has been fabulous in the afternoons, actively participating in learning and following instructions.

Sunshine Group-KS2

Aaliyah-Mai has faced challenges with new learning and shown great resilience.

Well done to everyone who worked so hard this week, it is fantastic to see so many positive learning experiences!

School Governance

We have had interest from several parents regarding the role of parent governor. If you would like to support the school and work collaboratively with senior leaders to ensure the school is the best version of itself, then please request an application form from the School Office. If you are not sure and would like more information, please speak to the School Office. We will contact any interested parties in the new year to discuss the next steps of the process.

Pupil Leadership

School Council

Watch this space for further updates.

House Captains

Watch this space for further updates.

Letters

Please find all of our latest letters here: https://www.micklem.herts.sch.uk/letters/ . If you have any questions regarding anything coming up, do not hesitate to ask.

PTA

Thank you from the PTA for all of your generosity and support this year. We have lots more exciting things planned for 2025!

We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Facebook page: Micklem Primary School PTA

Upcoming Dates

23rd December - 3rd January - Christmas Holidays

7th January - Nursery Stay and Play Session

8th January - New Children Start Nursery

13th January - September 2025 Nursery Applications Open

21st January - Year 6 Pizza Express Experience

23rd January - Year 6 Online Health Questionnaire

W/C 3rd February - Children's Mental Health Awareness Week

6th February - Year 1 Trip to British Schools Museum

11th February - Safer Internet Day

12th February - Nursery Open Morning

13th February - PTA Disco

17th - 21st February - Half Term Holiday

Good Shepherd Booking

Good Shepherd Club - to book spaces at After School Club, please visit

https://goodshepherdclubs.co.uk/

SEND and Family Support

The latest DSPL8 parents/ carers newsletter, with details of upcoming events and workshops, is available to download from their website. We've picked out a couple of things that stood out to us below. Click on the pictures to book!

https://dacorumdspl.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/DSPL8-ParentsCarers-December24-Newsletter.pdf

Accessible pantomime performance on 28th December.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Anxiety Unravelled; Dacorum Parents. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.Join us for a series of three 60-minute sessions to explore anxiety. The sessions will provide a space to think about your own responses and provide practical tips and advice that you can use at home to help your children develop their resilience to anxiety. All 6.30 - 7.30pm Session 1: January 29th Session 2: February 5th Session 3: February 12th Sessions will be recorded so you can catch up on-demand. WE fully recommend you join live. This course is fully funded by DSPL 8 and FREE for parents with children who go to school in Dacorum.

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