Fairfield High School
"Teaching, the curriculum, and care, guidance and support are all outstanding.The school rightly prides itself on its intimate knowledge of the needs of each pupil and its ability to provide for them. It is a highly inclusive school. The school has very high expectations of the pupils and is lavish in its encouragement and support." Ofsted, May 2006.
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Fairfield High School
Peterchurch
Herefordshire
HR2 0SGPhone: 01 981 550 231
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GCSE Timetable
The poet Gillian Clarke recently spent a Thursday with pupils and staff as an invaluable part of their GCSE preparation
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The feedback from the pupils, especially Year 11, was great. They were surprised she was such an 'ordinary person', 'one of us' as someone put it, not someone who quoted vast chunks of literary theory at them in a grande dame style, as possibly some of them had feared! They particularly warmed to 'A Difficult Birth' as she explained her efforts with the ewe, as most of them have delivered and hand-reared lambs and recognise that special moment of birth.
Imtiaz Dharker joined us on Friday
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As part of the outreach programme from Hay Festival, Year 11 pupils were treated to an evocative and atmospheric poetry reading and discussion by Imitiaz Dharker, one of the poets they study for GCSE.
From Speech Bubble, a humorous look at the degeneration of language, to the thought provoking Honour Killing and to the first ever reading of Error, a wry look at the frustration of the modern world of communication, the pupils were enthralled.
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Blessing and This Room, poems on the syllabus, were given a special reception and the Q and A session allowed those with GCSE jitters to get a poet’s eye view (should that be ‘hear-view’?) of her writing.
In all, a splendid, all too short hour in the company of an inspirational, gracious - to quote Imitiaz herself - ‘human being’.
Ben Crystal completed the triumvirate of literati
Shakespearean expert Ben Crystal provided Year 10 with an entertaining and thoughtful hour on the Bard of Avon.
Get thee to a nunnery, go - or click ye here for facsimiles