Our new school sign

Kat Hall, a local artist has been helping our students to design and make a new sign using mosaics.  It will be located above the new entrance area to the school and reflect the arch shape.

Children from every year group assisted in creating the sign, which incorporates lots of red, green and mirror tiles.  They also have made additional interior arch shaped mosaics to be installed along the upper and lower corridors at Fairlop.

You may have seen our photo in this week's Ilford Recorder, showing how the sign incorporates the ethos of Fairlop along with links to this year's London 2012 Olympic Games.  It has taken over six days to make, but finally we have finished and hope it takes pride of place very soon.

Olympic Torch visits Fairlop!

Last week, our KS2 students had an unexpected treat!   Eric Stuart, a parent of two children who used to attend Fairlop, is responsible as a Met Police Officer for getting the original Olympic flame from Athens to London. 

He gave a wonderful talk to our students about many aspects of the Olympics - including the history of the torch.  Some interesting facts we learned were:

• The Olympic flame will go to within an hour's travel of 95 per cent of the population.
• Six islands will be visited: the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Shetland, Orkney and the Isle of Lewis.
• 8,000 Torchbearers will carry the flame and can keep their torches!
• The total distance the flame will travel (including to the islands) is estimated to be 8,000 miles.
• The relay will start at Land's End in Cornwall on May 19, 2012.
• It will take 70 days to complete.
• The Olympic flame will travel for 12 hours each day, and on most days ending in an evening celebration event.
• The arrival of the Olympic Flame at the opening ceremony in London on July 27 2012 will signify the start of the Games.

Near the end of the presentation, two teachers carried in Mr Stuart's Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic torch (he was a torch bearer there) and a gold 2012 torch for this year's games.  All of our classes had our photographs taken with the torches!


It was really exciting to learn more about this event that is taking place only a few miles away from our school, and to take a sneak preview of the torch.  Mrs Frost has placed all the photos on our Fronter pages, but here a few below:

Festive Fun at Fairlop

That's it, tomorrow we finish for our Christmas break. 

It has been a hectic term, with loads of activities in every Key Stage.  Many parents attended the Christmas Productions performed by Early Years and Year One. 

Parents had a wonderful morning making mince pies which were sold at last week's Christmas Concert.  We have also recorded two CD's - Christmas Cracker (24 tracks) each track sang by a different year group and the Year 5 Carol CD - both are on sale in our School Office and all funds contribute towards the Activity Trail equipment we would like to buy for our KS2 playground.

Our Film Night last week was a great success!  Year 3-6 enjoyed their popcorn & soft drinks watching an old classic - Home Alone. 

Some sad news too - we said goodbye to a favourite Midday Assistant -Mrs Fardell.  She supervises the 5-a-side teams at lunchtime, and lots of Year 6 students were upset yesterday at her special leaving assembly.  We wish her well with her plans for spending a little more time to herself after 18 years at Fairlop.

Thanks to you all for your ongoing support with all our fundraising over the year, and our very best wishes to all our students & parents for an enjoyable break.

Remembrance Day 2011

We learned about Remembrance Day today, as Class 4T gave their assembly.  It helped us understand why we wear a red poppy and also why we hold a 2 minute silence at 11 minutes past 11.00 am, on the 11th day of the 11th month of the year.

Remembrance Day is on 11 November. It is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars and other conflicts. It used to be called Armistice Day, but was renamed in WWII.

Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is usually the Sunday nearest to 11 November. Special services are held at war memorials and churches all over Britain.

AUTUMN TERM - OCTOBER 2011

Students have settled into their new year groups, and amazingly next week it is half-term and Parents Evening already!  Lots of exciting activities are already taking place - Year 4 swimming, Yr 5 & 6 Bikeability sessions, Year 2 trips to the London Aquarium, Redbridge Sports Centre day and of course, Glasbury.

A fantastic start to the term too, for the Cross Country team who have completed 2 out of 4 challenging races, our Fairlop football team - winning 6 out of 7 games at the Chigwell Football festival and our Chess Club (managed by Richard Harding, our Chair of Governors) who have been recognised by the English Chess Federation as a chess centre of excellence.  Well done to all!

Our EID celebration last month was a great success, raising over £350 for the school.  If you would like to organise a new event, please contact the Friends of Fairlop team as they are always searching for new ideas.

End of another busy 'Fairlop Year'

 

Another year has come to an end here at Fairlop! We have all worked extremely hard at achieving our goals, but there has also been a lot of fun along the way.
With a great deal of help from our friends of Fairlop, school councillors and parents we have had many successful events this year. We would like to say a 'big thank you' to everyone involved.
Also we wish our year six children the very best of luck as they go off to their new scondary schools. We hope you have an enjoyable and successful future ahead of you.

Let's go fly a kite!

On Friday 1st July we had a kite flying day for the 2012 Olympics.
In July 2012 the Olympic and Paralympic flags will fly high, and so will all the flags of nations joining in the games.
Our school was invited to join in too: in just 20 minutes and 12 seconds…let’s go fly a kite.
We all had just 20 minutes and 12 seconds to make and then fly our very own kites. This was a great event and everybody joined in.  We had to make our kites from just paper and string and then we all went out onto the playing fields and flew our kites to music!
Please take a look at us flying our kites below:

 

 

 

 

 


Fairlop's got Talent!

On Thursday 16th June Fairlop held their very own 'Fairlop's got Talent' show!

Here at Fairlop we have some very talented children ranging from singers, dancers, musicians even hoola hoopers and basket ball players.

We had a panel of Judges to comment on the childrens act, Ms. Brannan, Ms. Taylor, Mrs Ireland and our very own Simon Cowell (Mr. Bettridge). This was a fantastic evening enjoyed by staff, parents and the pupils. Make sure you don't miss out on next years you have plenty of time to practise your acts!

Our Blogs!

Did you know that people from all over the world are looking at our Fairlop School Blog?

From 11th July 2010 to 21st April 2011 we have had 4,806 people visit. The countries these visits are from are marked in red on the map:

The statistics below show just which countries our visitors are from - wow quite a few from the USA seem to be interested in what's happening at Fairlop!

Do you have family living abroad? Grandparents, Aunties or Friends! If so they can just log on to our website www.fairlop.redbridge.sch.uk and then go to the media tab at the top and then onto our blog page, and take a look at what you have been doing in school this term. How wonderful for them to be able to stay in touch with your daily routine!!

Also don't  forget you can access lots of homework and activities by logging into your fronter account - and for the parents you can log into fronter using:
Username: FPSParents
Password: fairlop

HEALTHY TUCK SHOP TIME!

Another new initiative from our School Council - our Tuck Shop opened on Thursday 3rd March.  It is open every Tuesday and Thursday during our morning break time - 10.45 to 11.00 am.

We have been amazed at how many packets of 'Nakd Amazin' raisins we are selling in less than 15 minutes!  We are already disappointing many students by selling out of our raisin stock so quickly, and are negotiating with the company to order more stock urgently.

Cherry flavour lead the field as the most popular choice, with lemon & lime and orange flavours close behind.  From 15th March, we will offer pineapple flavoured raisins too.

If you can think of any other healthy snacks we can sell in school, let your School Councillor know and they can discuss at the next meeting.