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Cheshire Academies Trust Limited trading as Mill V iew Primary School. Registered in England and Wales 08108086. Registered office Kelsall Primary School, Flat Lane, Kelsall, Cheshire CW6 0PU.

Cheshire Academies Trust ‘Good Things Grow Here’

Year 5 Writing Competition… An update!

Year 5 have finally submitted their entry for this year's World Book Daycompetition entitled 'Why I Can't Live Without Books'. Miss Cottrellunveiled the spectacular book made by the Year 5 children in a whole schoolassembly and talked us through the project. The large handmade book isnow in London being judged by a panel of judges including James Patterson(author) and Helen Skelton (BBC Presenter and author). Fingers crossed forthe prize - £10,000 worth of books! The whole teaching staff were amazedby the quality and presentation of the Year 5 entry. Well done everyone!

Marco’s entry

Year 2 Young Writer’s Competition Year 2 have now taken up the challenge of entering competitions!Each pupil has written their own acrostic poem about a subjectof their choice in the hope of winning £500 for Mill View!Good luck Year 2!

Some of our exciting Context for Learning Work so far this

half term…

Have you read the flier and blog posts about The WayWord Festival?Mrs Gibbons and Mrs McCrimmon shared information about thisexciting festival in a whole school assembly last week. Thisyear’s festival features famous stargazers, funnymathematicians, best-selling authors, amazing illustrators, hitCBBC writers, super-duper computer builders, and lots more. Tofind out more, click onto the website www.wayword.co.uk . Itlooks a super event for children of all ages.

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Year 2 pupils have been super busy (and noisy!) exploring theirContext for Learning ‘How would life be different if I lived

in an African country?’ Here they are in the school hall enjoying creating their own

African inspired music using percussion instruments. Have a lookat the videos on the Year 2 blog.

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Year 1 Trip to Chester ZooOn Tuesday 3rd of February Year One went to Chester Zoo. Their current CFL is ‘Where do the wheels on thebus go?’ So an important part of the visit was using the school minibus to get there. The children had plannedwhat animals they wanted to learn more about and this included finding out about snakes and other reptiles. Weorganised a workshop with a zoo ranger in the Tropical Realm to answer some of our questions. We had aspecial welcome from another zoo ranger who had a surprise for us that had been organised by Leo’s Dad, DrGerardo Garcia, Chester Zoo's curator of lower vertebrates and invertebrates. He had arranged for us to feed thegiant tortoise and some of the birds within the Tropical Realm. Highlights of our visit were seeing the babyrhinoceros, the baby giraffe, the jaguars and of course our special surprise.

Have you read the PTA’s latest newsletter? The PTA does a fantastic job raising funds for exciting projects in our school. Please take the time to read theirnewsletter. Don’t forget the next PTA meeting is Tuesday 3 March at 6pm. All are welcome.

Congratulations to Miss Cottrell… who has secured a place on the ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ leadership course.She will attend a series of training days over the next coming months. Well done Miss Cottrell!

A Tale Unfolds Year 4 and 5 have just embarked upon an exciting 8 week English project called ‘A Tale Unfolds’. This projectwill result in the children planning, editing and producing short films entitled ‘Cindy Ann and Bones and theTemple of Boom’. We hope the children can share their videos with you very soon…

500 WordsDon’t forget to enter Chris Evans' short-story writing competition forchildren 5-13! All you need to do is enter a short story of less than 500words. Click onto www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1 to find out moredetails. Feel free to post your entries on your blogs. We would love to readthem!

RE ResourcesMrs Noble was successful in her bid to secure a grant for REChristianity resources from the Jerusalem Trust. As a school we nowhave:

Class set of Beginners’ Bibles for Key Stage 1 Class set of the Graphic Bible for Key Stage 2 A set of Bible character hand puppets A nativity set for each class A set of South American crosses

A selection of picture books


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Year 5 Trip to World Museum, LiverpoolOn Thursday 5 February, the children in Year 5 visited Liverpool World Museum as part of their CfL on AncientEgypt. The children had a great day learning all about the lives of the Ancient Egyptians, seeing real Egyptianmummies and participating in a hands-on session where they got to touch real Egyptian artefacts. The childrenwere complemented on their excellent behaviour and prior knowledge during the session.

Safer Internet Day 2015 will be celebrated globally on Tuesday 10 February with theslogan ‘Let’s create a better internet together’.

Mr Gilbert (Technology Leader) and Mrs White (Learning Mentor) led an assembly abouthow to be a good online citizen for the children in Year 2 to Year 6. Mrs White recently

delivered a session to Year 6 about awareness and understanding of age limits andage restrictions (including age limits on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube etc). Children will be bringing home agreat magazine called Digital Parenting which is well worth a read and also check out the E-safety page of theschool website for lots of useful links to games, videos and activities to start the conversation at home.

Staffing UpdateThank you to…

Mrs Hall who has been our school cleaner for 18 months and has decided to concentrate on her cateringcareer in the Windmill Café. We would like to thank Mrs Hall for her commitment in ensuring that ourschool building was always clean and tidy for our children and staff every day

Congratulations to Mr Parker has been appointed as Deputy Supervisor in Miller Club

Miss Carter has been appointed as the school cleaner. She will also continue working in the Windmill Café Mrs Borman has been appointed as Play Worker in Miller Club. She will also continue working in the

Windmill Café

Mr Parker Miss Carter Mrs Borman


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Chester Cathedral CelebrationChildren from Reception, Year 2 and Year 4 recently submitted workfor the Canon Chancellor’s award, a competition run by ChesterCathedral. This involved showing how drama, art and music are usedin the teaching of RE in our school. Reception children used puppetsto explore the concept of family and belonging; year 2 explored thestory of Zacchaeus through music, and Year 4 used the Creationwindow at the cathedral as inspiration for a batik wall hanging.

Mill View was selected as a Highly Commended entry, and will receivea presentation plaque and certificate. In addition, three children who have shown anaptitude for RE will visit the Cathedral to receive the award and take a short trip upthe Cathedral tower. Well done to the children who worked so hard to achieve this.

Batik Wall HangingKey Stage 2 Corridor

Academy UpdateI wanted also to give you an update as we have now been an academy for nearly a whole month. In our 2015school development plan, one section is entirely devoted to matters related to setting up our multi academytrust. This will be available on the school website soon. Headteachers and Principals have been meeting to

arrange staff training and link our schools further. We have been in discussions to implement an 11 by 11 planacross all 3 schools. I am sure you are thinking, “What is 11 by 11?” This means across all 3 schools that staffwill be thinking of 11 fundamental primary experiences that we want children across our trust to have beforethey are 11 years old and leave for High School. This will be a thread of consistency between trust schools thatlink the children and our curriculums together.

Year 6 ParentsThank you to all the parents who attended the information evening led by Mrs Anderson and Mrs Burt-Williams itwas lovely to see so many parents.

Diary Dates

Monday 09 February – Year 5 visit to Upton High School to see Grease the MusicalTuesday 10 February - Year 6 visit to Upton High School to see Grease the Musical and Safer Internet DayWednesday 11 to Thursday 12 February – Spring term Parents’ eveningFriday 13 February – School closed for staff training Monday 23 February – School re-opensThursday 26 February – PTA Film Night (no extracurricular clubs)Tuesday 03 March – PTA meeting at 6pm in schoolThursday 05 March – Young Voices concert in Manchester and World Book DayMonday 30 March to Wednesday 1 April – Year 5 Residential to the Conway CentreWednesday 11 March – Tempest Class PhotographsMonday 30 to Tuesday 31 March – Year 2 Residential to Foxhowl, Delamere ForestThursday 02 April – School closes for Easter holidays

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