School Christmas Fair - Forest Row, East Sussex

GREENFIELDS CHRISTMAS FAIR

Saturday 3rd December 12pm to 4pm

Stalls for craft/food/gifts etc - cost £10 - BOOK NOW!

• Raffle
• Father Christmas
• Festive Food
• Creative Activities
• Stalls and Crafts
• Carol Singing by School Choir

FREE ENTRANCE - ALL WELCOME!!!

Tel: 01342 822189

How to Find Us

Greenfields School
Priory Road
Forest Row
East Sussex
RH18 5JD

Directions from Gatwick or London:

• Turn onto M23 South
• Take turn off to East Grinstead
• Follow A22 through East Grinstead
• Take a right at the first roundabout onto Priory
  Road
• Greenfields is 1 mile on the right.

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School Open Day at Greenfields - Wednesday 5th October 2011

Greenfields Independent Day and Boarding School, is a small, friendly caring safe school in a rural location using proven study methods and a strong moral code ensuring happy students, no bullying, no drugs and successful graduates. Students aged 3 to 18 receive an all-round education for life. We provide National Curriculum, Montessori pre-school, junior and senior schooling, 6th form and English Language unit with excellent academic results.

We invite you to tour the school and find out what makes our students so successful.

There is another Open Day on Wednesday, 2nd November. You can see all important school dates for the winter term here. 

Priory Road, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JD
www.greenfieldsschool.com
admissions@greenfieldsschool.com
01342 822189

Sussex School: Out Now - Issue 13 of the Greenfields School Magazine

Issue 13 of the Greenfields School Magazine

This issue of the Greenfields School magazine inlcudes:

• Welcome from Head Teacher Grant Hudson
• Greenfields Theatre Company
• 2010 Christmas Show: Doctor When
• 2011 Summer Show: The 39 Steps
  
• Reception and Juniors
• Cultural News
• Red Nose Day
• The Royal Wedding
• Extra Curricular
• Ski trip
• Model flying
• Sports and the Arts
• Meet the gold medalists and our creative superstars
• School Inspection Results 2011
• Read excerpts of the report
• Music
• Find out about Rock School
• Plus much, much more ...

Please contact us if you would like your free copy of the magazine. Alternatively, you can view and download our online PDF version of the magazine here:

http://www.greenfieldsschool.com/GF_MAG_JUNE2011_WEB.pdf

Sussex Private School Gets a Good Inspection Report from the ISI

Greenfields is far more than just a school.

The Independent Schools Inspectorate -the legal authority in the UK responsible for inspecting independent schools and assessing them in relation to national standards- recently found that at Greenfields “pupils’ personal development is good, supported by effective arrangements to ensure their welfare, health and safety. They benefit from very good relationships with staff, and all new pupils are made to feel welcome.”

Their report went on to say, “Behaviour and moral standards are high. Pupils achieve a good level of self-confidence and learn, in varying degrees, to be socially and culturally aware.”

Furthermore, “the overall quality of the pupils’ achievements throughout the school is good, showing that pupils are well educated in accordance with the school’s aim that they should acquire basic knowledge and skills for living... Pupils are very articulate, listen carefully and contribute well when asked. They are motivated, and work independently and with enthusiasm.”

So as a school, Greenfields is doing well. This extends into other areas of life, as the report found: “The school provides a range of opportunities through which its pupils develop a system of spiritual beliefs. The pupils develop a good sense of identity, self-worth and self-confidence, demonstrated by their demeanour around the school, and in many of their activities... Relationships are based on mutual trust and respect, which is palpable throughout the school... Pupils accept responsibility readily and happily share the various tasks that fall to them.”

The full report of the Inspectorate is available through the school’s website, and should be read by anyone interested as it really confirms and validates our credentials as one of the premier Applied Scholastics schools on the planet.

Which is great -but Greenfields is far more than that.

Speak to anyone who has attended the school and they will usually embellish the points made above: its special atmosphere, the unique relationship between teachers and pupils, the advanced approach to learning which means that the aim is a proper and full understanding of what is studied rather than just enough knowledge to pass an exam.

But there’s more.

Grant Hudson,Head Teacher
at Greenfields School

“We encourage students to see that education is more than learning useful material for the future,” says Head Teacher Grant Hudson. “It is a multi-level game to do with themselves and others and at Greenfields they can experience tremendous change in relation to themselves, others and groups. Additionally, with every lesson, they can learn more than just data but attitudes which will help them to better conditions around them -and that their help personally is needed. Some people don’t realize how important education is to the world at large.”

At Greenfields, students are not just lumped together in classes or year groups and allowed to get on with it, they are treated as individuals. Often they have individual study programmes written to pilot each one towards their goals.

“Treated in this way, all of a sudden they find out who they really are and begin to push themselves to get the sub-products needed to make it in life,” explains Mr. Hudson. “Everything seems doable when you break life down this way. Monitoring this on a weekly basis helps the teaching staff to keep control in and use resources wisely.

“At Greenfields we really care about our students and they know that. We get them willing to be a part of the big picture of what is needed in life and they love to play that game.”

Happy Easter to All

From everyone at Greenfields School,
we wish you a Happy Easter!

Here is a list of important dates for the Summer Term:

• Sat 29th Apr - Boarders Return
• Tue 3rd May - Start of Summer Term and New Students Registration
• Tue 3rd May to Thur 23rd June - G.C.S.E Exams
• Tue 3rd May to Thur 23rd June - A-Level Exams
• Mon 30th May - Half Term Holiday Begins
• Sun 5th June - Half Term Break Ends / Boarders Return
• Wed 8th June - Open Day
• Thur 9th June - PTA Meeting
  
• Fri 24th June - GTC (Greenfields Theatre Company) Starts
• Fri 8th July - Lower School Sports Day
• Wed 13th July to Sun 17th July - Gala Weekend (GTC School Play, Summer Fair, Graduation, Graduates Ball)
• Mon 18th July - Last Day of Term
• Tue 19th July - Boarders Leave
• Mon 25th July - Week One of Summer School
• Mon 1st August - Week Two of Summer School
• Mon 8th August - Week Three of Summer School

NB The dates given for the start of the Summer Term on the school website (due to the Royal Wedding Bank Holiday) are currently incorrect but will soon be updated.

Open Day: Greenfields School, Sussex - Open for Tours

Discover a friendly, caring and safe environment for your children to learn and achieve their true potential.

Greenfields School Open Days, 23rd February and 8th June.

We recommend that all prospective parents and students come and have a tour of Greenfields School. There is nothing like experiencing the atmosphere and seeing the school in action! We have one of the friendliest and most beautiful environments you will ever see for a school and it is well worth making the effort to get here in person.

HOURS

We are open Monday – Friday, 9am to 4.30pm.

Telephone messages may be left for staff at other times, but private numbers of staff are not given out.

OPEN DAYS

We have Open Days throughout the year where you can drop by whenever you want without need of an appointment. You will receive a tour of the school, an interview with one of our administrative staff and a nice cup of tea!

The official Open Days are:

Wednesday 23rd February 2011

Wednesday 8th June 2011

Teaching staff may also be available to answer any questions, timetable permitting.

Please call 01342 822189 to speak to one of our Admissions staff. E-mail is also an excellent way of staying in communication with us: admissions@greenfieldsschool.com

If you wish to visit the school on another day, not listed here, we will do our best to service you and make your plans work. Please contact our Admissions staff and let us know what you need.

TRIAL DAYS

We also offer trial days for prospective students, this means that they can spend the day at Greenfields in the classroom and with the other students. This is a great way to experience Greenfields as it really encourages the student to find out if this is a place where they would like to come to school. Please call the Admissions department to arrange a time to have a trial day!

Happy New Year to All

From everyone at Greenfields School,
we wish you a Happy New Year!

Some important dates for the upcoming Spring Term:

• Tues 4th Jan - New Students Registration
• Wed 5th Jan - New Students and Boarders Return
• Thurs 6th Jan - Start of Spring Term
• Mon 10th Jan to Fri 14th Jan - A Level Exams
• Mon 17th Jan to Fri 21st Jan - A Level Exams
• Mon 24th to Fri 28th jan - A Level Exams
• Wed 23rd Feb - Open Day
• Sat 26th Feb - Boarders Leave
• Mon 28th Feb - Half Term Break Begins
• Sun 6th Mar - Half Term Break Ends / Boarders Return
• Thurs 31st Mar - Parents Evening
• Thurs 7th Apr - Last Day of Term
• Fri 8th Apr - Boarders Leave

http://www.greenfieldsschool.com/calendar.htm

Exciting new Clubs and Societies

At the end of the Spring half-term Greenfields launched a whole array of new clubs and societies across all age groups.

Lower School: Miss Lesha put up several notices which Lower School children then had to sign to express an interest in the following clubs: Way to Happiness Club, Gardening Club, Choir, Cooking Club, Recorder Club, Camping Club, Arts and Crafts Club and others. Lower School students signed up for each club by the dozen!

Senior School: Lunchtime and after-school clubs have been created in the Senior School based on the activities requested by the students themselves, including: Book Club, Writers’ Society, Drama Club, Games and Cards Club, Photography Club, Film School, Sports Club, Outdoors Club and a Choir.

More Clubs will be added this half term.

The computer revolution has begun!

Popular ICT Teacher and Network Manager David Bailey briefed parents and teachers of the school recently on the school’s new plan to implement advanced computer technology step-by-step across the school. Questions were answered and Director of Studies Jeff Smith and parent Clare Loré spoke to the group and many different fund-raising ideas were suggested. The implementation has been broken down into segments.

“The first step was to get an advanced interactive white board into the Lower School,” said Mr. Bailey. “That cost £3,500.”

Parents and teachers are engaged in fund-raising constantly, and welcome any help or contribution. For more details, please contact David or Jeff Smith directly at the school.

We look forward to a new era of computer technology at Greenfields!

From the Editor

Welcome to the first of our "new-look" blog entries! We hope to be able to provide you with fresh, up-to-date and exciting news as it happens on a regular basis through this medium. We hope that you'll find items of interest in each one. There's certainly enough material at this end!

"Items shown here by no means include everything that is going on at the moment," says newly-appointed Head Teacher Mr. Hudson. "The old Greenfields spirit is very much alive and well. Old friends are returning, thrilling new ideas are being implemented, education here is becoming more and more fun. The only way to be completely informed is to call in and see us! You'll be very welcome!"

Please also feel free to give us feedback on anything else to do with the school.