Mrs Burton - Principal Blog

Wow what a start I’ve had! On my first day as Principal of Mill Field Primary Academy Mr Boris Johnson announced we were going back into a national lockdown. My immediate response was one of upset as that meant I was unable to meet all the children and families of Mill Field. That first week began by identifying key worker and vulnerable families and closing early for a snow day! This provision has grown week on week and we now have 76 children attending throughout the week. Those children have skipped and bounced into school each morning with huge smiles on their faces and I can’t wait to meet their friends and families over the coming weeks and months as we continue to develop our Mill Field community.

Over the past six weeks I have been faced with many challenges – lockdown and snow to name just two! Each individual challenge has been addressed with a smile on my face, knowing I had the support of my new colleagues around me. I have met colleagues in school and the wider trust who clearly share my passion for ensuring that every child reaches their potential, no matter what obstacles we have to overcome, this has been heart-warming to see.

Alongside colleagues in school, I am incredibly lucky to have been welcomed with open arms into the White Rose Academies Trust, where people check on my well-being, provide support in every aspect ranging from project management to IT support, finance to marketing and also HR, helping me to ensure that my vison will be delivered. This level of additional support from the wider trust is something very new to me and something that has already made a huge difference to the day to day running of school, in a very positive way. Knowing I have additional capacity and support at the end of an email, teams meeting or just the old fashioned telephone is very reassuring.

My first six weeks have been incredible! I have watched and learnt, listened and understood and have been able to start to make plans on how I will move Mill Field Primary Academy forward on the journey that the children and their community deserve. We have some very exciting plans for the immediate future to develop the outdoor space around school. We are going to plant trees and get a new fence to improve the look of school. We have plans in place to develop a staff car park to ensure the streets around school are clear of staff cars. We also have plans in place to build a running track on our school field, develop a wellbeing area with chickens and rabbits and also develop a Key Stage 1 outdoor provision area.

The future is very exciting here at Mill Field Primary Academy and I’m so grateful to be a part of it.

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