Academy Life
Good News 2021-22
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FMAT Games
FMAT Games 2022
Our athletics squads competed in the annual FMAT Games on Thursday, 14 July against our other Trust Schools.
Each team won their categories, junior girls with 137 points, junior boys with 168 points, inter girls with 150 points and inter boys with 172 points.
We would like to congratulate each and every athlete for their excellent efforts.
Well done Fairfax!
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#excellence
Beauty and The Beast wins rave reviews
14.07.22
After a two year gap, staff and students came together this week to make the summer musical of Beauty and the Beast a smash hit!
Read about it here at Sutton School life:
Fairy tale fun at Fairfax as for more than 100 students stage Beauty and the Beast
House Athletics Championship Day 2022
07.07.22
Mental Health Awareness Week
12.05.22
Languages Competition
29.04.22
MFL NEWS: Congratulations to our latest languages competition winners, who are pictured. Their task was to share their experiences of learning a language at school or to share their experiences of speaking a language they use in their home or community (except for English!), over the last 18 months during Covid and lockdown. We received some excellent entries, including an outstanding video entry from Tom. Glückwünsche und Félicitations.
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Table Cricket Competition
28.04.22
Our Fairfax Table Cricket team won all three of their group games to ensure they made it to the final yesterday. However, they lost the final – by only 15 runs.
Although this was a missed opportunity to make it back to the Lords National Final, the team are already talking about next year!
The team (with representation from all four houses) are:
Humzah Mudhir (Captain) – Warwick
Joal Phillips – Stratford
Lilly McCauley – Coventry
Sam Stinson – Kenilworth
Cao Tran – Coventry
Young Writer's Mini Sagas Competion
‘The Diamond Suite’ Opening
Languages Spelling Bee
08.04.22
National Pi Day Competition
05.04.22
Last month the maths faculty celebrated Pi day with a variety of activities but also asked students to celebrate pi day by researching the history and importance of Pi. It was overwhelming the quality and amount of entries that the maths faculty received. We will be awarding prizes this week.
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#Ambition
House Swimming Gala 2022
Fairfax Has Got Talent 2022
Dance Evening
British Science Week
Year 7 Rugby
UPDATE
Year 9 Rugby
UpdateHockey News
TournamentWorld Book Day 2022
Boccia and Kurling Competition
– after competing against 10 other teams.The 'Fairfax' Eisteddfod on s4c Wales
Netball Success
ARKS Assembly
26.11.21
ARKS Congratulations to our latest awardees – who have received 12 merits: 3 for Ambition, 3 for Respect, 3 for Kindness and 3 for Safety – Well done everyone!
Thank you to all parents and carers who attended the assembly.
Remembrance Day
REMEMBRANCE DAY 2021
Thank you to members of the RAF Veterans Association, the Royal Welch, the British Caribbean Veterans Association, the WRAF Women’s Royal Air Force and the British Legion, who joined us on 11th November.
Our thanks also to staff and students who attended the local services at Walmley and Sutton Town Hall.
#wewillrememberthem
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Tutor Time Reading Programme
We are really excited about our Tutor Time Reading Programme. Twice a week, during registration, students are reading a book together with their form tutor.
Each year group is reading a different book:
Year Seven: ‘Checkmates’ by Stewart Foster and ‘Back Home’ by Michelle Magorian.
Year Eight: ‘Trash’ by Andy Mulligan and ‘Bone Sparrow’ by Zana Fraillon
Year Nine: ‘The Boy who Steals Houses’ by C.G. Drews and ‘I am Malala’ by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
Year Ten: ‘The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling’ by Wai Chim
Year Eleven – Thirteen: ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama
Why are we doing this?
There is growing evidence to suggest that reading is one of the best ways to improve academic performance in the long-term.
Texts have been selected extremely carefully to ensure that the narratives address age appropriate themes as well as giving students the opportunity to explore diverse life experiences, cultures and identities while increasing their reading skills and vocabulary knowledge.
Tutors and students are really enjoying reading the books! Please do ask your child about the book they are reading.
European Week of Languages
Staff and students at Fairfax celebrated the European week of Languages with a series of fun activities, led by the Modern Foreign Languages team. 
During the week of 27th September each day was dedicated to a different European language and students were encouraged to answer registers in all lessons using the greeting of the day.
Every morning in registration, there was a quiz about the country of the day. The winning tutor group was K01, who received a box of Celebrations to share amongst the form.
Then at lunchtime students got involved in a language themed activity – such as bingo in French, watching Black Panther in German and learning some new phrases in Spanish.
Students in years 7 and 8 also took part in a flag challenge, where they had to find the ten teachers around school who were wearing flag badges for the week and identify the country they were representing. Well done to Keira Ly and Thom Ashworth (in year 7) and Henri Hoxha, Primrose Hobday, Grace Corbett (in year 8) who won prizes for finding all ten.
Every student who took part in any of the activities during the week also received points towards their Language Colours.
Language Ambassadors
October 2021
The Modern Foreign Languages faculty are really excited to be appointing our very first Language Ambassadors at Fairfax. GCSE French and German students in year 10 were invited to apply for this new role by writing a letter about why learning languages is important for them and why they believe languages are an important part of an enriching curriculum. As a result, 12 lucky students have been selected and they are beginning their roles. Their aim is to be student role models and to promote French and German to the rest of the school. They will encourage, help and encourage students to choose languages as part of their GCSE options. The ambassadors will also help the MFL teachers to organise language-based activities throughout the year.
Language Colours
October 2021
For the first time, all students in year 7 have the opportunity of achieving their Language Colours at Fairfax. By participating in a number of key language activities, students will gain points towards their colours. When they have reached each milestone they will then have to complete a written verb challenge before receiving their badge.
JUNIOR COLOURS- French/German Pin Badge
Participation in 5 language based school activities or competitions, plus the revision and conjugation of 5 common verbs in the present tense in your language.
HALF COLOURS- French/German Badge
Participation in a further 5 language based school activities or competitions, plus the revision and conjugation of 10 common verbs in the present and past tense in your language.
FULL COLOURS- Languages Bar Badge
Participation in a further 5 language based school activities or competitions, plus the revision and conjugation of 15 common verbs in the present, past and future tense in your language.
Examples of language based school activities and competitions:
- 12 days of Christmas word competition.
- Open evening volunteering.
- Language Ambassador meetings.
- Online vocabulary/work challenges.
- Participation in European Week of Languages.
- Participation in cultural competitions related to your language.
- Suitable extra-curricular work.
- Year 7 research project.
For more details please contact Mr Young, Head of German.
Hockey News
October 2021
Well done to our U15s Hockey team, playing in the Sutton Schools Hockey Tournament! #makingfairfaxproud
Thank you to Fairfax PTA for providing our ‘team kit’ too!
Are you ready for 'ARKS'?
Following the success of our ‘ARKS’ programme last year, we are looking forward to rewarding our students who display the Academy’s key values.
10 September 2021
It’s good to see you!
Summer Exam Success
Fairfax Examination Results August 2021
Congratulations to all our GCSE and A Level students! We are hugely proud of all the hard work and
achievements of our students, especially after such a tough and disrupted year, our students showed maturity and resilience throughout extraordinary times and we are so proud of how focussed they were on returning to ischool following the winter lockdown. Our teachers and staff worked tirelessly to ensure student progress, and we wish all of our students every success in their next phase of education or training or employment.
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