Hatfield Community Free School

HCFS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, parents, volunteers, visitors and contractors to share this commitment.

Welcome from the Principal

I welcome you to our website that is designed to give you a flavour of the uniqueness of our school.

We opened in September 2012 to meet the desire from local parents to educate their children in Hatfield. We provided 60 Reception class places to meet the increase in population across the town.

We value each and every child and their family as part of our learning community nurturing the natural curiosity that comes with being a young child. We listen to what our parents tell us and value the voice of the child in establishing their learning journey that is built on firm foundations of communication, reading, writing, mathematics and technological enquiry.

Dr. Sue Attard

We are updating regularly our website especially with our newsletters.

You may follow us on Twitter as a parent, carer or guardian of a child in school.

We value the richness of the 17 different languages spoken by our children and their families.

A special pet came to visit us in our classes.

Working with Onslow Year 9 students on our joint Heritage Project at Extended Learning Club.

Our friendly school support police officers came to show us their police car and then ate lunch with us.

We had such fun at the Friends of HCFS Valentine Disco

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We have a virtues programme which encourages children to think about a way of being and try to act in the right way.

Our current virtue is:

TRUST

We have a Behavioural Code (72Kb) which has been developed with the children and supported by the parents.

We ask parents to sign up to the Home School Partnership Agreement. (205KB)

Thematic Curriculum

This weeks theme is:

The Moon in space
What is beyond our Earth?

Click on the images to see videos or powerpoints of our school in action

Here is the video clip of our school on the Channel 4 Political Slot

Grant Shapps vists our school.

We learn about food production at ASDA.

We had such fun searching for Easter Egg shapes with number sentences to answer.

We dressed up as characters from books.

We had fun playing in the snow.

We celebrated together in our Easter Assembly

Our learning discoveries.

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Important Events

Monday 27 - Friday 31 May

Half Term Holiday
School closed

Thursday 27th June 5.30 - 7.00 pm EYFS Graduation for children and Parents at University of Hertfordshire De Havilland Campus

Saturday 13 July Friends of HCFS Summer Fete 1.00 - 4.00 pm

Monday 22 July Whole school trip to Whipsnade Zoo. All day

Tuesday 23 July Sports day PM

Wednesday 24 July

End of core year session

Thursday 25 July to Wednesday 31 July

Extended year week 1
8.30 - 3.00

Childcare 8.00 - 8.30 am
3.00 - 6.00 pm

Thursday 1 August to Wednesday 7 August

Extended year week 2
8.30 - 3.00

Childcare 8.00 - 8.30 am
3.00 - 6.00 pm

Thursday 8 August to Friday 30 August

School closed

Monday 2nd, Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th September

Staff Training Day closed for children

Thursday 5th September

School starts for Year 1 children

Monday 9th September

School starts for new Reception children following home visits previous week.

If you are a parent of a child in our Reception class click on the Parent view image above to complete the survey.
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