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22 January 2021

In case you are missing our beautiful school, some lovely pictures taken by Mr Smith.

A wonderful cake made by Kevin in Year 8 as an entry for

the House Cake Competition, with F for Farringtons in

strawberries - well done Kevin.

Year 2 have been creating pictures using a Pointillism technique. We are studying the artist Georges Seurat.

Heidi with the guinea pigs she really enjoyed making during one of her online lessons.

Year 3 have been continuing to learn sign language in their Live Wellbeing lessons. The focus was on general greetings and politeness. We learnt to sign please, thank you, sorry, hello, goodbye and we can now spell our names!

Mrs Reynolds

Heidi enjoying her Zoom baking lesson with Mrs Fox.

Pupils from Pre-Reception to Year 2 were tasked by Mrs Long to make a trophy, which she will be awarding to a pupil at the end of each lesson, with an explanation for the award. Pictured here is Emma in Year 1 with her amazing trophy.

Esme, Miah and William, children of

our Critical Workers making shapes

in the frost at Farringtons

Christmas Jumper Day A big thank you to all our families for your support of our Christmas Jumper Day Collection. The Junior School managed to collect £359 for Save the Children.

The Senior School managed to collect £504.95 for Restart Lives. Each of these charities really work hard to help young people and we are so pleased to be sending on our support to them this month. Thank you most sincerely Rev. Janet Verrier “Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.” Isaiah 58:10 Mrs Allen Teaching Year 5 Japanese

Notan Art and their outcome

Thank you to all the parents who have taken the time to feedback on the

fantastic start to the term we have had.

Students in Year 9 and 10 Chemistry have been using whiteboard.fi to gain instant feedback on their drawings of dot and cross diagrams. (Photo taken whilst students were drawing)

Miss Finlay, Science Teacher

Farringtons Physical Education Department have been setting on-line video Games sessions where pupils do a variety of warm-ups skill, drills and fitness work. It is amazing how many things you can do with a scrunched up piece of paper and how tiring activities can be in such a small space. There has been some amazing photos and videos sent it by pupils.

‘It’s so important that the children do some form of PE and I am impressed with what you have put together’. Year 6 Parent

House Menu Spring1

housecompetition@farringtons.kent.sch.uk

• Show off your baking or cooking skills: bake treats/

cook a meal for your family and send us a picture and the

recipe. If it looks good we may want to give it a try! What skills

from your food lessons can you use?

• Get reading. Why not use the amazing new School Library

link https://uk.accessit.online/frr00/ or Library Team. Take a

picture of yourself and a book when you complete it. Maybe

write a book review. What was your honest opinion? How

many books can you read in the next five weeks?

• Design a t-shirt with a "positive" quote - this can be BLM,

Wellbeing , LGBTQI, humour. Whoever wins will have their

t-shirt printed

• Keepy ups with a toilet roll (as many as you can do)

• Photography competition (what does lockdown mean to you)

• Funniest homemade movie

• Keep running, join the Farringtons Fliers here:

http://www.strava.com/clubs/farringtonsfliers

Thank you everyone for your support and we are really excited to

receive your entries. Deadline 25th January

Click on image to watch video

Click on image to watch video

Please enjoy some videos of Year 6 pupils talking in French about their favourite sports and hobbies (click on the image

to watch)

Youki Enrico Sam Bella

Valentina enjoying her online class - baking biscuits with Mrs Fox.

She enjoyed them very much !

Jennifer has been painting a watercolour of the pony she has been riding during lockdown 3. Absolutely beautiful. Congratulations Jennifer.

Apprenticeships This week in Well-being we looked at what an apprenticeship is.

We did this by following through a presentation from The Education Development Trust which our teacher used to help us understand what an apprenticeship is. She used the presentation to engage us and ask us questions, as well as answering our questions.

From this we learnt that an apprenticeship is a qualification gained, without a fee and you get to work and be paid at the same time.

This could be good for someone that does not want to enter adult life with debt or is looking to enter into work as soon as possible.

An apprenticeship gives anyone the ability to gain qualifications regardless of academic achievement.

However, it is not to be mistaken as an easy option as it is still challenging and involves a lot of hard work, but it is an alternative form of learning. In addition to this, it could also suit a practical learner more than university, as you can have a hands-on approach in the working environment.

Most people associate apprenticeships with building, plumbing and hairdressing etc. However, from the presentation we have learnt that there are apprenticeships available in most career areas. This has opened our minds to an alternative education. We have also learnt there are different levels of qualifications. They start at intermediate which is a level 2 programme and then go all the way up to level 6/7 which is equivalent to a degree.

This well-being lesson was very informative and has opened our eyes to other forms of education. The websites at the end are very useful and we will use them to look into apprenticeship for our potential futures. Mlle Mosqueron did a good job of presenting this and engaged us well under the circumstances.

Darcey Thomsett & Thomas Webster, Year 12

#iloveboarding

West House have enjoyed some interest-ing and fun activities these last few weeks. The girls love their Fitness Workouts to loud music and take the daily sessions seriously. In addition to the fitness sessions, Molly’s Hair and Beauty Salon nights are also popular, with masks, hair straighteners and lots of spray. Both houses meet up in the gym and basketball sessions. This week we had a ‘Boarders’ Feast and Film Night’, where everyone met in West House to enjoy a delicious meal together, followed by watching the latest version of ‘Johnny English’ in the lounge. It was most enjoyable with wonderful behaviour and manners. This weekend, one of our Farringtons Chefs is coming in to teach us how to prepare and cook Chinese dumplings. We get to eat them as soon as they are cooked and are looking forward to this new activity. We may have fewer boarders, but we endeavour to make life interesting and manage to have a lot of fun too! Mrs Arnold and Miss Smith

We will be celebrating the 7th annual National Apprenticeship Week on the 8th-14th February by providing activities and information to Years 7-11 to learn more about apprenticeships and the amazing careers they can lead to. #NAW2021

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Kent BR7 6LR 020 8467 0256

www.farringtonsorg.uk

CHAPEL SERVICES AND ASSEMBLIES

Click here for the Junior Chapel Service Click here for the Senior Chapel Service

Mrs Long’s Weekly Tips Homemade Cinnamon rolls with hot choc-olate - Delicious ☺ I followed a recipe for the buns and enjoyed the stages to create a tray of indulgent buns. Tip: Try making your own hot chocolate - grate your favourite chocolate on the finest side of a grater - boil up some whole milk - put 5 heaped teaspoons of chocolate in a mug and stir some of the hot frothy milk into the chocolate to make a paste and then slowly add the remaining milk - sprinkle the top with your chocolate flakes. Perfect to enjoy after your daily exercise whether it be yoga, walking the dog(s), a cycle in the park or looking for spring flowers.

I saw these two purple flowers this week-end on my walks, can you name them ?

Answers for last week’s flower quiz: • Periwinkle / common vinca - purple • Pyracantha / Orange Fire thorn

Polina with her first sighting of a Snow

Drop - last week’s challenge from

Mrs Long

Well done to Savannah for her island map created for English - she stained the paper with coffee and had help burning the edges. Savannah also had fun making gingerbread men.

Thank you to Mr Davies, our Guitar

Teacher for a video demonstrating

different guitar styles that he has taught

children. (Click on the image to watch)