Fairfield Infant School
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Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Year R Reading and Phonics Parents Workshops
Wed 30 Mar 2022Our Year R children and their parents have been sharing a love of reading and phonics together!
The final workshop for parents of children in Owl Class is being held at 2pm on Thursday 31st March.
We look forward to seeing you there....
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Parents Evening Consultations - Booking System is OPEN
Wed 30 Mar 2022We are holding our Parents consultation evenings after the Easter break on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th April from 3.30 until 6pm.
This is a great opportunity to speak to your child’s class teacher and discuss their report card progress, achievements and goals for the rest of the school year.
These will be 10 minute appointments held in your child’s class. If you haven’t already done so, please book an appointment on our Parentmail system or speak to the school office.
Thank you
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Comic Relief Dress Down and Crazy Hair Day - Friday 18th March
Thu 17 Mar 2022On Friday 18th March we will have a " Crazy Hair and Dress Down Day so children can come to school in comfortable casual wear e.g. jeans/joggers and a t-shirt/top of their choice or other comic relief merchandise as desired.
The School Council have decided as well as dress down day on the 18th March we would also love to take part in ‘Crazy Hair Day!’ where the children can have their hair as wacky as they can for a donation of £1.
The teachers will then decide on the child with the craziest hair throughout the day to be awarded with a certificate in assembly! The School Council are busy designing the certificates and are looking forward to presenting the awards.
We look forward to seeing all of your crazy hairstyles!
Good luck,
Miss Winsor and the School Council TeamWe will collecting cash donations on the day or you can donate at any time through our Just Giving Page on the following link:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rednoseday22-fairfield-infant
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Happy Valentines!
Mon 14 Feb 2022Happy Valentines from all of us here at Fairfield!
Here are a few photos of some of our children enjoying our themed Valentine Menu today...
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Safer Internet Day - Tuesday 8th February 2022
Fri 11 Feb 2022Safer Internet Day
We marked Internet Safety Day with some reminders about how to stay safe online. Children in Year 1 and 2 have been undertaking learning about this through weekly lessons. We have attached some posters below so you can continue to reinforce these messages at home.
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World Book Day - Thursday 3rd March 20222
Mon 07 Feb 2022Thursday 3rdMarch marks World Book Day, and we have been busy planning events to celebrate here at Fairfield. As mentioned in last week’s newsletter, this year we will NOT be asking the children to dress up as book characters on World Book Day but there will be memorable opportunities which easily involve everyone without the pressure of any additional cost.
In school activities
On the day, the children will take part in a range of activities, including:· Class lantern decorating competition, in which children will work as a class team to decorate a lantern around a chosen book theme. A team of judges will pick a winner and the winning class will be given an exciting prize (including signed children’s books by well-known authors)
· Story walk in the meadow
· Craft activities
· Collaborative story writing
As each class will be taking part in the story walk throughout the day on Thursday 3rd March, please send your child to school with their wellington boots suitable for the meadow in a named carrier bag. Children do not need to wear full meadow clothes on the day. If Thursday is your child’s usual meadow day, it will be rescheduled for an alternative day within the week and we will communicate which day this will be before the children return to school after half term.
Competitions
We have organised 2 competitions for children to take part in at home, bringing their creations into school on Thursday 3rd March for judging!· Wooden spoon puppets. We are challenging the children to turn an ordinary wooden spoon into a book character puppet! Before half term, we will send each child home with a wooden spoon to decorate and the children can do so using any materials that they like. There are some ideas shown in pictures at the end of this letter. There will be a winner chosen from each year group and each winner will be awarded a certificate and a prize. This competition is free to enter and we hope that as many children as possible can take part. We are looking forward to seeing and displaying their creations at school!
Book cover design. In order to support fundraising efforts for our school PTA, we will be providing the opportunity for the children to take part in a book cover design competition. Before half term, we will send each child home with an envelope containing a competition entry form. If your child wishes to take part, they should complete their design on the sheet provided and return it along with £1 in the envelope to their class teacher by Thursday 3rd March as judging will take place on World Book Day. The winner will receive a certificate and a prize, which will include signed books from some famous children’s authors. This is an optional competition. We are very grateful to the PTA for sourcing the prizes for this.PTA book fair
The PTA have begun plans to hold a second-hand book fair on World book day. More details regarding this will be sent to you by the PTA in due course.Book Tokens
Each year, the school is provided with a £1 book token for every child to use against the cost of a new book, which can be spent at various book stores and book fairs. We will be giving these out on the day however we would encourage you to keep hold of this book token as the children will be able to spend it at our Scholastic book fair which will take place during the week of the 15th March. By buying books from the book fair, you will support us in receiving funds from Scholastic to purchase new books for our school.
We are really looking forward to celebrating World Book Day with the children and hope they will come away with fond memories from the day.
If you have any questions regarding World Book Day, please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s class teacher who will be happy to help. Alternatively, you can speak to Miss Merrell on the playground or via the school office.
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Chinese New Year - Tuesday 1st February
Thu 03 Feb 2022The children had a great time celebrating the Chinese New Year - Year of the Tiger on Tuesday 1st February. They all wore something red and got involved in lots of cultural activities, such as food tasting, dragon making and dragon dances. Here are a few photographs from the day...
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Inside Out Day - Now and Beyond Festival Children's Mental Health Festival
Thu 03 Feb 2022Today we are celebrating the Now and Beyond Children's Mental Health Festival with an Inside Out Day. We invited our pupils to wear an item of clothing inside out to demonstrate that not all mental health is visible.
Here are some photographs of the day..
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Children's Mental Health Week 7th - 13th February
Mon 31 Jan 2022Next week is Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is Growing Together and so children and adults will be encouraged to consider how they have grown and how they can help others to grow. A fantastic opportunity to spend time talking together is during the journey to and from school.
To help support and encourage active travel on the way to and from school, My Journey Hampshire will be providing My Journey Funsize. These are small daily ideas for activities to do whilst travelling actively on the school run. They will be sent out daily and can easily be opened on any device.
If you want to participate in the activities do not forget to allow the time on your active travel school run. Alternatively, you can access them on the My Journey website, Spring into Action Funsize | My Journey Hampshire. So take the stress out of the school runs, improve the congestion and pollution levels around the school gates and try some new activities to engage with each other and connect with our surroundings. Have fun together trying out My Journey Funsize.
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Fairfield Infant School Birthday
Mon 24 Jan 2022The 27th of January is our school’s birthday and this year Fairfield Infant School will be turning 127! In order to celebrate, the children will be taking part in a range of Victorian activities to find out a little more about what life would have been like for the first pupils of Fairfield.
Each year group will concentrate their learning around a theme. These will be as follows:
Year R – Victorian playground games and toys
Year 1 – Victorian food
Year 2 – Victorian school dayOur aim is for these themes to stay the same each year so that, as children move through the school, they build a little more on their knowledge of life during the Victorian times and the history of our school.
As part of the day, we would like for all children to come dressed in clothes appropriate to the Victorian era. We understand, however, that costumes can be costly especially if only worn once! We hope that the ideas below will give you some ways to provide an inexpensive costume for your child that you could create from existing clothing items you have at home—there are also some other pictures of Victorian costume for reference.
If you are unable to provide a costume for your child, we would ask that they wear dark trousers and a white top or shirt as this will help them dress in keeping with the Victorian theme. Please do see your child’s class teacher if you have any problems or queries regarding this.
