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.

French Teaching and Learning Project

Last week 7S participated in a Teaching and Learning Project in French lessons. See more here.

Charities afternoon raised £2000!!!

Charities afternoon was an amazing success, raising £2000.

We have also set up monthly sponsorship of child at a special school in India and 51 beautiful and generous Christmas shoe boxes are winging their way to Monte Negro to make lots of little people smile this Christmas.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Snow and Ice

It's that time of year again...
Some weather forecasters are predicting the worst winter since 1947 - but they are often wrong. If there is snow and ice in your area when you go to bed at night or when you wake up in the morning there is the possibility that schools may have to close for safety reasons. There will be a list of school closures at regular intervals on BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester and on the council's website and Twitter feed, but your first point of call should be here on the school website where any information about school closure will be posted from 7:15 a.m. If there is a prolonged closure, work will be available via Remote Access.
The school will always remain open if the site and access are safe - though school transport may not always be able to run.
For a detailed local weather forecast, click here.

Academy Status

Click here for a copy of the important letter to all parents/carers about Fairfield's future choices.

Year 11 Mock Exams

A copy of the letter sent home about Year 11 mock exams can be found here
and the exam timetable is here.

The VLE is dead - long live Remote Access

The VLE has been down the last week or so due to it dying... but it is now reborn as Remote Access from Student and Staff Areas, the sidebar and from this link. Don't worry about the security warning in this case - it's perfectly safe but the certificate hasn't come through yet.

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.

Calendar

The Calendar for the school year is available here - and always from the link in the sidebar.

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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