Reaching high for the best for your child
Children's University Graduation
By Robert Staples, Headteacher - Monday, 28 January 2013
We were very proud last week to attend the first NHC Children's University Graduation at the Broadway Cinema in Letchworth! Two of our children graduated, Matthew Gray and Ben Muggleton - it was great to see them dressed up in their gowns and mortar boards to receive their awards.
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The children have been taking part in a series of accredited after school actvities; each time they attend, they have earned points towards their Children's University award. We are expecting more children to graduate next year, so please look out for information in the future!
Fun In The Snow!
By Robert Staples, Headteacher - Tuesday, 22 January 2013
We had great fun on Tuesday when the whole school took part in a snowman building competition! On Friday, Year 6 built an Igloo Cave!
Take a look at some of the photos in the Gallery section.
Time To Vote For Fairlands' Christmas Tree!
By Robert Staples, Headteacher - Tuesday, 4 December 2012
We had a lovely morning today when Mrs Ansell and Mrs Biggs took the Knitting & Sewing Club members down to the church to decorate our Christmas Tree!
Each year, Holy Trinity Church holds a Christmas Tree Festival where community groups contribute a themed Christmas Tree to make a wonderful display.
This year, our theme was 'Christmas Crafts' and the Knitting Club have been working hard for weeks to sew and knit Christmas Stockings.
We'd love the children's efforts to be recognised, so PLEASE make some time to pop into the church and place your vote for our tree to win!
Ofsted Says, 'This Is A Good School!'
By Robert Staples, Headteacher - Monday, 15 October 2012
We are very proud to report to you that we have had a wonderful outcome to our Ofsted inspection of October 2012.
The inspectors were very impressed with everything that the school has achieved over recent years and could see the impact in terms of rising standards of achievement across the school.
Most of the teaching seen during the inspection was good, with many examples of outstanding practice. The behaviour of the children was, as always, good and inspectors remarked on how safe the children felt at school.
The leadership of the school was praised for working so hard to improve teaching and achievement - but we know it is a team effort and this positive result is something of which every single member of the school community should be proud!
Taekwondo Club Ready For Olympics!
By Robert Staples, Headteacher - Monday, 2 July 2012
Fairlands Taekwondo club had their second official club grading test on Saturday, watched by some very supportive parents. Twelve students were promoted to yellow belt, one to green tag and one to green belt. The children put on an excellent display of fighting techniques and performed very tough memorised sequences of 20 movements. The green belt student also had to break a board with an elbow and a kick.
The next step on their journey is more fighting techniques using protective equipment to be able to practice them with each other and to learn another sequence of 20 movements for their next grading at the end of the year. Some students who weren't quite ready will be taking a test in a few weeks to catch-up, including more candidates for yellow belt and yellow tag.
Master Jeffries said, "Fairlands Taekwondo's technical standard is really progressing well. The students are all putting in full effort to learn some very difficult techniques, while understanding that this is a sport and martial art and not to be used outside of the training sessions. I'm sure we're all looking forward to seeing Team GB Taekwondo compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games in August."
Summer Smoothies!
By Robert Staples, Headteacher - Thursday, 14 June 2012
On Tuesday June 12th Fairlands Cooking club welcomed 19 children and 16 adults from a local Rainbows group and church in Stevenage Old Town to a "Summer smoothie and dip evening". We had recently won a grant to buy 4 blenders and were eager to put them to use as soon as possible.
We split into 4 groups and each group prepared a healthy summer smoothie (even though we haven't seen much summer weather) and a dip after watching a demonstration. The session flew by with the sounds of blenders whizzing away and children safely chopping their fresh fruit and vegetables. The classroom we were working in smelt of strawberries, cherries, kiwis, lemon and a fairly strong whiff of garlic was in the air too! At the end of the session everyone was then able to sample some of each group's work and they all left with smiling faces and full goodie bags and cups to feast on when they got home.
We would like to pass on our thanks to Jade in Year 6 who did a fantastic job as a welcome host at the beginning and an even better job during the session helping the young children when needed. We would also like to say thanks to Mrs Glenister who was an absolute star at the end of the session helping us to clear up and return everything back to normal for the next day.
Since September 2011, approximately 8 members from each year group and lots of parents and carers have had the opportunity to attend cooking club sessions and they have all been a huge success. Cooking Club will return in the autumn term and we will be working our way through each year group again. We will be ending the academic year with a community event for the whole school and details will be announced shortly.