Peterchurch, Herefordshire, HR2 0SG

"A forward-looking school with traditional values"

Welcome

We are proud to show you our outstanding school in the depths of rural Herefordshire, complete with students, adults and animals. One of the very smallest schools in Britain and one of the very best if Ofsted, exam results and league tables, parents and students are anything to go by. Small schools can provide a completely rounded experience and a full range of opportunities - social, creative, sporting, as well as superb exam results. It requires dedication, vision, commitment and energy and a mutual respect and purpose among everyone who works and studies at the school.

Please follow this link for more about the whole Fairfield experience.

Have A Lovely Summer

School starts again for students on Wednesday, 3rd September.

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Art Work

Click the picture above for some beautiful GCSE art work from Year 11s who have just left.

With a Year 10 trip to India planned for February 2015 (linking up with the Dean Academy) and a new link with a Ryder-Cheshire home in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, we are now sponsoring an Indian child in the special school there. We have had a non-uniform day raising funds for them and the amazing work they do with special needs education in India.
Apart from Year 8 who went to Alton Towers, students did not have any normal lessons on Friday 11th July; instead they had an exciting day jam-packed with educational creative Indian activities – from Indian storytellers, to dohl drummers, bangra dancers and indian chefs… Bollywood, henna and much much more.
They ate, danced, performed and learned…!!

Llanrug - The Movie!

Turn on the speakers, watch the trailer and then
watch the FULL MOVIE by clicking here!

Iceland Trip

For more photos and updates on our Iceland trip, please check our Twitter feed.

Expressive Arts Celebration

Batik of Bob Marley by Pacho Song

We celebrated some of the terrific work completed by our students this year in the Art, Drama, Music, Textiles, Food, Product Design, Construction and Engineering departments.

Charities

We raised £500 for Sports Relief earlier this year and have recently donated £400 to JDRF Type 1 diabetes charity - a charity close to our hearts, with a number of diabetic students at Fairfield.
Look out for ‘India Day’ on Friday 11th July 2014 - more details to follow, next month!

Academy Status

We are very pleased to inform you that Fairfield has become an Academy, with effect from May 1st.
Please follow this link for further information.

Ofsted came and saw and reported. Above is their summary and here is the full report. Chair of Governors, Paula James, writes:

The new Ofsted framework is considerably tougher than those applied previously and Oustanding outcomes are not given lightly.

Congratulations are due to everyone associated with the school: the staff - teaching and non-teaching, the senior management team, the students, parents, governors, but above all, the head teacher, Mrs Gaston. Ofsted says: "The headteacher's strong and clear-sighted leadership is the main driving force behind the school's continuing success". This is high praise which the governors know to be fully justified.

Read Mrs James' full letter here.

Generosity

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”

Our students are VERY generous! Here are some of the details of last school year's giving -

North Weir Charity £300
Concern Universal £300
Changing Faces £400
LEUKA (in memory of Rachel Davies) £200
Concern Worldwide £300
Operational Blessing £300
St Michael's Hospice £200
Cystic Fibrosis £200

WWYL day money raised
ActionDuchenne £200
Megan Baker House £173.50
St John Ambulance £173.50
Children in Need £143.14

Amazing totals - especially for such a tiny school!

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."

Free money for Fairfield!!

When you buy online via The Giving Machine, a sales commission is received from the participating shop. 75% of this is converted into a donation on your behalf and sent to your chosen beneficiary(s) – ie Fairfield. 25% is retained to contribute to costs of maintaining the website and distributing donations. You are buying the same products, at the same price, on the same shopping websites as if you went direct but the difference is: by shopping via The Giving Machine you generate free cash donations at no extra cost to you personally.

Please follow this link to read about helping the school and how easy it is to be involved.

Tweet Tweet

We have a Twitter feed where we put new information - and especially URGENT information - on a regular basis. If you already use Twitter, just follow us and you will receive the latest news from school. If you don't yet participate, here's a good place to start! As with the web in general, there is a HUGE amount of rubbish on Twitter but, if you selectively follow the right people and organizations (such as Josie Pearson, Open Culture, some of the many BBC feeds and Hay Festival for example) you are kept up to date with interesting developments in news and ideas. You may wish to find out more about a particular topic by searching for it or you may be tempted to follow some of the "Trending" topics which the majority of people are following at any one time. Of course, if you have a phone which has friendstreams or widgets for sites like this, you need never miss a thing - but we would recommend five minutes a day catch-up as enough!
Whoever you follow, please follow Fairfield.

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