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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!
Poetry Jam
Year 5 have been busy creating beautiful and inspirational poems to encourage other children at Fairlands Primary School to always have a positive attitude towards changes and challenges.
Computing - Vector Drawing
Spruce class really enjoyed using the brand new computers today!
They followed instructions to make some excellent owls and splendid sheep, out of ordinary shapes. They all did a super job even if some of the eyes looks a little strange!!
Reading for Pleasure - In the Shade!
There's something wonderful about getting lost in a good book — and this afternoon, Year 6 discovered just how enjoyable it can be when reading meets nature. With the sun shining, Whitebeam swapped desks for the great outdoors and took their reading time outside. For 20 peaceful minutes, the children lay sprawled across the grass and leaned comfortably against tree trunks and found that it only takes a short amount of time to become totally engrossed in a story.
Independent time creations
This week the children have been very busy building and creating their own masterpieces in independent time!
Reading for pleasure!
Since coming back from Easter, Year 6 have been working incredibly hard, focusing on their revision in preparation for the upcoming assessments. It's been a busy few weeks of studying, but today, we found a well-deserved break. We took some time to sit quietly, read our books in the peaceful silence, and soak up the warm weather. It was a refreshing pause from all the hard work, allowing everyone to recharge and enjoy a moment of calm before diving back into our studies.
Design Technology
This morning in Design Technology, we recapped our learning on our senses and used describing words to talk about different materials. We then carried out our own experiments to find out which material is the hardest and easiest to cut through. We made a prediction and then tested materials to find our whether our predictions were right.
we found out that plastic was the hardest material to cut through and paper was the easiest.
Thank You Mr Sharp!
Over the Easter holidays, our wonderful caretaker Mr Sharp was hard at work in our Nursery garden. He has built us a new wendy house, a stage AND a set of planters that we are using for small world play- and all just in time for us to enjoy in the beautiful weather! Today we made a card for Mr Sharp and invited him down to Nursery to say an enormous, 'thank you!'
Growing Cress
In Nursery our topic this half term is 'The Great Outdoors' and last week we started our topic by planting some cress seeds. Today we were so excited to discover that they have started to grow! The children have been carefully watering them using pipettes and are looking forward to see how tall they grow- we might even have a taste one day soon!