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.

Showcased Guardian Photo

by Fern Wortmann

This beautiful image of a jellyfish won Fern Wortmann a showcased appearance in The Guardian on May 19th.
What a fantastic achievement!

Herefordshire School Games

The date for the Herefordshire School Games has been set for July 4th 2012. Taking place at a number of sites across the City, the event will bring together young people from 5 - 19 in a festival of sport. The day will have a mixture of competitive events in a variety of sporting activities. Some will be Herefordshire finals where the young people will have competed to win the right to fight to challenge to be Herefordshire county champions. Other competitions will bring together schools who wish to compete against other schools in a format to see who is the best on the day. This is planned to be the largest multi sports event the county has ever seen and is Herefordshire's pre Olympic event for young people!

Students from Fairfield will be taking part in some of the sporting events competing on the pitch for the school. A significant proportion of the workforce for this event is intended to be young people volunteering in range of roles and jobs. They will take on responsibilities such as Team Managers, Event Management, Marshalling, Media work, Officiating, Umpiring and Refereeing. Fairfield are providing our own small army of volunteers from Year 8 who are in the process of being trained up for their jobs on the day. Students have already attended two workshops at Hereford Racecourse in event awareness and roles specific training for their tasks on 4th July. On 26th June these students will attend heir last training day which will focus on event familiarization and logistics for the day before being set to work on 4th July. This is a fantastic opportunity for these students to be fully involved in the whole process of putting on a large scale multi venue sports event that will mirror the London 2012 Games.

Rounders

For the second year running Fairfield hosted local primary schools to play their Rounders fixtures after school on Monday 14th May. Students in Year 8 who have received Rounders umpire training in preparation of their volunteering roles at the Herefordshire School Games in July stayed after school to officiate to a very high standard.

Martha Davey, Lucy Venables, Meg Watkins, Sarah McMullan, Abi Goodwin and Lizzie Cross in year 9 coached and managed the primary school teams, supporting players and assisting them with rules and tactics. 

The Times Spelling Bee

UPDATE:

GCSE Summer 2012

Forewarned is forearmed and it is very important for exam candidates to know exactly when their exams are. With a long view it is possible to revise and plan effectively - and crucially to avoid making any medical appointments or taking any holiday when an exam is scheduled. It would be very helpful if parents/carers as well as students made notes of these dates now on their own calendars and diaries. For full details, follow this link.

Year 11 Revision Timetable

We have arranged revision slots for Year 11 for after the Half Term Holiday in June. Students will be expected to attend these if they study that particular subject. Please follow this link for full details.

Year 11 Leavers

All current Year 11 students have received an important letter about their remaining time at Fairfield.
A copy of the letter can be found here.

Year 7 Storytellers

Mrs S Price's Year 7 English group went to Peterchurch Primary School on the last Thursday of term to read the stories they had been working on and produced over the last half term. They really enjoyed seeing their hard work and effort pay off as the primary school children lapped up the stories they had written.

For more of these sunny pictures, click here

Generosity

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

The current Charity Afternoon total is so far an amazing £2020; please bring any outstanding sponsorship by the end of term to make this total even more spectacular. The money raised by Penny Wars has already gone to Children in Need and the rest will be distributed over the year to both local, national and international charities.

"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.

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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 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 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!
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