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Headteacher blog 26th January 2024
It has been such a stormy week and it has coincided with possibly the worst-ever attendance levels (other than in the pandemic): less than 90% all week with Y3 particularly severely affected by poorliness. Staff (and their own children) have been afflicted too, as have some other schools locally. The joys of winter-time! I Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog January 12th 2024
It is great to be back after the Christmas and New Year break. On Monday we had a Teacher Training Day. Amongst other things, we had some updated training on the best use of Mathletics. This was unexpected as we had, reluctantly, dropped that very expensive subscription just before the holidays but we had Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 15th December 2023
It is feeling very Christmas-y at school with our first festive performances and final rehearsals before more next week. I enjoyed our two Foundation Stage nativity performances of The Super Star and thought that the children (and staff) did very well. This afternoon our Winter Choir and junior recorder players are playing a little Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 8th December 2023
It has been a week of weather: from frozen, snowy conditions to thoroughly wet and miserable. These last few months must be some of the wettest for a long time and the grounds are sodden. Lots of things are being postponed and we have troublesome water ingress in the infant hall. Thankfully, some visits Read More
Read newsHeadteacher Blog 1st December
It has certainly been wintery and quite picturesque at times this week. It definitely feels like the season has changed. We also know that we are in the run-up to Christmas now that we have had both the Farsley Lights parade on Wednesday and a concert of children singing and playing at Pudsey Civic Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s Blog 24th November 2023
It’s been hard to keep up with the number of visits, visitors and events that the children have been enjoying over the past week or so: a trip to Temple Newsam, dance groups, football matches and events, accessible bowling, a sound workshop, cross country competition tomorrow, a World War 1 workshop on Monday and Read More
Read newsHeadteacher Blog 17th November 2023
We are doing a huge number of school tours at the moment which belies the data that tells us that there is a big drop in the birth rate. We don’t do ‘open days’ or evening events; every tour is an ‘ordinary day’ as I am confident that we will experience a happy, safe, Read More
Read newsHeadteacher Blog 10th November 2023
May I first wish everyone Happy Diwali if you are celebrating this weekend! It’s been a very busy week at Farfield with two parents’ evenings and two evening trips to the theatre – one of which was aborted! On Tuesday and Wednesday we had successful parents’ evenings although we very much prefer the in-person Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s blog 27th October
This has been a tricky end to what has been a very long half-term. We have had to have our infant school car park dug up to work on the school’s three-phase electrical supply and we have had to contend with two days of kitchen closure and a further long power cut on Thursday Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 20th October 2023
It’s been a wet end to the week but a good one nonetheless. Year 3 enjoyed their Stone Age Day although it was much damper and muddier than last year. Life in those times will have been hard! Year 1 had two successful reading and phonics workshops, highlighting the importance given to the rapid Read More
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