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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!
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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!
Tadpoles and Frogs
In Nursery we have been learning about tadpoles. Mrs Glindon brought in some frogspawn from her family's pond before the holidays and we were so excited to watch them turn into tadpoles. We looked closely and drew some brilliant observational drawings, as well as playing with toy tadpoles and frogs in the classroom and reading lots of information books. This week we are using our knowledge to sequence pictures of the lifecycle of a frog, we would love you to ask us about it at home!
A Springtime Walk
Today in Nursery we went for a spring time walk to see what we could see in our school grounds. We took cardboard frames with us to help us focus our attention on one small area. On the field we noticed...
Super subertising!
The children use Easter eggs to add different amounts to their five frames. The children used their subitising skills to say how many eggs were on the five frame, without counting them first. This is a fantastic way to master numbers to five!
on Wednesday 9th May we are hosting our maths workshop, will you be joining us?
Welcome back!
The children in Nursery have had a wonderful first day back. The children shared how egg-cited they were to take part part in lots of Easter activities during the holidays, so we created our own egg hunt in the Nursery garden!