Reaching high for the best for your child

The school will be open Thursday, unless there is very significant snowfall during Wednesday night. 

Thank you for your support and cooperation today. We never take the decision to close lightly and based that decision on the best information we had at the time. Thank you to all the staff who made sure the early close went as smoothly as it did.

Please keep an eye on the school website for further updates. 

Due to heavy snow forecast until 7pm at least tonight, the school is closing for the afternoon. Please come and collect your children now from NORMAL COLLECTION POINTS. Please take care - although we have gritted extensively this morning, we are unable to clear footpaths during heavy snowfall. Please keep an eye on the website for further updates, especially with regard to possible continued closure tomorrow (Thursday). 

On Tuesday 27^th of February, from 6.00 to 7.30pm, we are holding an open evening for prospective parents of children to our early years (Nursery and Reception).

The evening will begin at with a short talk from Mr Staples; parents are then invited to look around our early years setting and talk to staff. There will be information regarding the role of school governors, the school’s links to the Children’s Centre and speech and language provision.  Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served by Fairlands Faces. We welcome anyone interested in finding out more about their child's future at Fairlands!

We are pleased to inform you that the gas leak is now all fixed and the heating is back on.

The whole school will be open on Monday as usual - normal hot lunches will be served and please send your children in normal school uniform please!

We anticipate that the repairs to the gas supply in the Upper Building will be completed today (Saturday). There have been complications during the week as the repair involved relocating the old gas meter. Many thanks to Mrs Glenister who has been on site to liaise with the contractors during the half term holiday!

If there are further unforeseen delays to the repair work over the weekend, please note that the school WILL STILL BE OPEN as usual on Monday. There would be no heating, and we may have to declare a non-school uniform day, so the children can wrap up extra warm. We would not be able to serve hot school meals, so we would provide a packed lunch alternative. 

Please check back here for an update on Sunday evening.

Due to a confirmed gas leak, the school has closed today.

I can confirm that the gas has now been cut off to the upper building and the site made safe. Ongoing works are being undertaken to rectify the source of the problem as soon as possible, and we anticipate the school reopening after the half term holiday. 

As the children were unable to access the upper building during the evacuation, many of them have left personal belongings behind, such as coats and packed lunch boxes. THE SCHOOL WILL BE PARTLY ACCESSIBLE ON SATURDAY to collect these belongings, BETWEEN 9 and 11am. Please come to the statue gate on the upper site, where staff will be able to help you.

Parents and carers should look at the school website for further updates over the course of next week.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the parents & carers for all your messages of support and help in collecting the children so promptly! Well done to all the staff, who managed the situation so incredibly smoothly; and well done to the children, who behaved so sensibly throughout our evacuation. 

A special thank you goes to Mr Sharp, our amazing site manager, who detected the leak in the first place. He is truly the Hero of the Day!

Have a restful half term break!