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Starting Reception

Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Will 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!

An Amazing Week of Year 6 Performances: Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies

What a show-stopping week it's been for Year 6! After weeks of hard work and rehearsals, they took to the stage to perform Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies — and what a performance it was!

Money, money, money!

This morning, Year 6 had an exciting visit from the Barclays Bank Roadshow van! The team from Barclays came to talk to us about budgeting, smart money habits and how to avoid common spending traps. It was a fun and eye-opening session that gave us lots to think about when it comes to handling money wisely.

Year 5 Rounders Tournament

On Tuesday this week some Year 5 children took part in a Year 5/6 Rounders Tournament against 10 other schools in Stevenage. We were the only team there who had only Year 5's in our team and we won 2 matches out of the 4 that we played. The children had lots of fun and came in 5th place overall! Well done Fairlands Rounders Team!

Prehistoric art

Hornbeam had a fabulous afternoon creating a prehistoric cave wall in our art lesson this afternoon.

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.