Reaching high for the best for your child
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!
Design and Technology
In Design and Technology we designed and made moving monsters. We made linkages using card for levers and split pins for pivots. We used peer feedback to modify our final designs.
Sunshine, museums and train!
Walnut Class had the pleasure to visit Cambridge. We had an exciting train journey to the city. After finding a delightful park, we had lunch and a kick around under the glorious sun before heading to the Fitzwilliam Museum. Here we were amazed by ancient armour, perfect porcelain and amazing artwork. It was a fantastic day and everyone had a great time!
Your help is needed!
Don't forget that we're after your help please! Every year, we look at how we support children with special educational needs in our school. We produce a SEND policy, a SEND information report and a provision map annually which shape what we do. We review these and think about how we can make things better for our children, families and staff.
Crucial Crew!
Last week, our Year 6 pupils had the exciting opportunity to visit the Lamex Stadium to take part in Crucial Crew: a multi-agency safety event designed especially for 10-11 year olds. This important event aims to equip children with essential life skills that will help them stay safe and look out for others as they grow older. Throughout the day, the children rotated through a series of interactive workshops run by professionals from various emergency services and safety organisations. They learned how to identify fire risks in the home, discussed what to do in an emergency and even took part in hands-on CPR. These sessions were both fun and informative and all children were really well engaged.
Threading in Art
This week in Art, our skill was threading!
Threading supports our fine motor skills which makes our fingers strong!
Year 5 Maths
This week, the children have been revising and revisiting the topic of geometry. We have been spending a lot of time consolidating our understanding of key vocabulary and today we used this in a competitive game of '3 of a kind'. They had to organise the shapes based on properties such as parallel and perpendicular lines, acute and obtuse angles and regular and irregular sides.