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Reception tours!
Tuesday, 1 October 2024Applications have opened for Reception school places for September 2025, they will close 15th January 2025 for all children born between 1st September 2020 and 31st August 2021.
Reception Tours - We are holding tours during the school day on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout November and December. Booking is required. Please do so by calling 01438 351053 or emailing amy.mcdonagh@fairlands.herts.sch.uk
We will also be holding a second Open Evening of the Reception classes on Thursday 9th January 4pm-6pm. No booking required.
Children are welcome to attend.
Read our blogs!
Duxford War Museum!
Today Year 5 visited Duxford War Museum. We got to see hundreds of military and civilian vehicles on display, plus exhibits on warfare linked to our ‘Conflict' topic. We had an amazing day taking in all of the facts about how people lived during wartime.
Trees through the seasons! A Year 1 Adventure
In this week's science lesson, Cherry class took a journey through the year... tree-style! Our young scientists have been learning all about deciduous trees and how they change across the four seasons.
Great Fire of London - Tudor houses
The children have had a fantastic day completing their Tudor houses. I'm sure you've all seen them by now and we're sure you'll agree just how brilliant they are!
The Firefighters visited Year 2!
We had a special visitor today during our WOW day! The firefighters from Red Watch came to see us. They told us about their job and all the special equipment which they use. We talked about how fire engines are different now to in 1666. We then asked them questions about fire safety and afterwards we had a tour of their fire engine! They even put the siren for us. We had the best day ever!
Diary writing
Fun WOW Day!
Samuel Pepys told us all about The Great Fire of London by writing about it in his diary. We began to write our own diarys using a feather pencil. We could write the diary as Samuel Pepys or we could be ourselves but back in 1666!
The Great Fire of London Quill Writing
We have had a fantastic WOW day so far! We have made our own Samuel Pepys diaries and we even made our own quills! We then retold the events from The Great Fire of London. On each page of our diary, we carefully thought about how the fire spread quickly across London. We then chose our favourite sentence and used ink to write up our writing using a quill. We have completed lots of other activties too but this activity is our favourite so far!
The Three Billy Goats Gruff!
We have been really enjoying exploring a range of traditional tales in our English lesssons. We particularly loved the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff! To help familarise ourselves with the story, we worked in small groups and acted out key parts of the book. You can see how much fun we had from the smiles on our faces!
Understanding my diagnosis
Receiving a diagnosis of either Autism or ADHD (or both!) can be overwhelming and can bring about a range of emotions. It is often a difficult process for adults to understand and is even harder for children to navigate. There is an excellent service being offered by Herts and West Essex NHS and it is called The Toolbox. It is online ADHD and Autism support for young people. They have courses and workshops available to help children learn about their diagnoses and there is an amazing LIVESTREAM zone which is hugely engaging for children. In the Livestream zone, children get to watch a therapist play favourite online games while answering their questions about neurodiversity. It has proven to be a very popular resource as you can imagine!