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Starting Reception
Wednesday, 16 April 2025Will your child be joining Reception in September 2025?
Wednesday 16th April is an exciting day for many of you, finding out where your child will begin their full-time school journey.
We would like to invite all prospective parents to join us to see a Reception day in action on Wednesday 23rd April, Thursday 24th April, Friday 25th April or Thursday 1st May.
Please note spaces on the tours are limited, you can book by contacting Amy.McDonagh@fairlands.herts.sch.uk or contacting the school office on 01438 351053 from Tuesday 22nd April.
Finally, please note Friday 2nd May is the final day to accept your child's Reception place, you can do this through the Hertfordshire admissions website.
We will be sharing more information about upcoming Stay and Play sessions and exciting summer holiday collaborations with Track Play, Tumble Tots and Little City on our ‘Starting School’ blog and school social media pages.
We look forward to meeting you and your family over the next few months!
Read our blogs!
Wow day in Year 2
We've had a brilliant day visiting the allotment this morning, where we got stuck in planting radishes and learning about how food grows.
Growing Wow Day
To finish off our amazing Wow day, our parents came into school and helped up plant Sunflower seeds and make a flower pot from cardboard, using flowers we had picked earlier.
Year 2's Trip to the Allotments
Today, year 2 visited the Grey Dells Allotments next to our school. We have been learning about plants during our science lessons and were excited to see where plants, vegetables and flowers can grow. During our visit, we saw slugs, frogs, snails, butterflies, bees and ladybirds. We also saw pumpkins, broccoli, beetroot, carrots, rhubarb, and apple trees! We had lots of fun and we are excited for the rest of our Gardening WOW Day. Parents can come and complete some science activities with year 2 from 2.30pm today!
Growing Cress
In Science, we have been thinking about growing!
We grew our own cress heads! We read and followed instructions to grow our very own cress. We couldn't believe it when Miss Free told us we could eat cress. Miss Free brought in some cress for us to try. Some of us thought the cress tasted spicy, peppery, sour, delicious and disgusting!
Amazing Architects!
We have been having a great time using CAD (computer aided design) software in our computing lessons this half term. Using Tinkercad, we have been learning to resize, rotate, combine and copy shapes to create buildings. Like true architects, we have had to consider the scale of our designs and what features our buildings utilise. While some have focussed on the exterior designs, other children have gone a step further and considered adding interiors to their 3D creations! It has been amazing learning these new skills in our lessons!
Stunning structures for perfect playgrounds!
In design technology, this halfterm, Year 6 have been designing and making models of playground equipment. First, we discussed what makes the perfect playground and considered the materials and designs that went into the structures involved. After this, we moved on to design structures and play apparatus that we would love to use ourselves.