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Headteacher’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
Read newsHeadteacher Blog 13th October 2023
It has been a big week at Farfield: the publication of our Ofsted report, Harvest Festival and lots of sports and physical activity. The Ofsted report is very positive and uses words and phrases like vibrant, happy, ambitious, exceptional (twice), flourish, highly effective and confident. We are delighted to have received such a validating Read More
Read newsHeadteacher Blog 6th October 2023
It’s been warm but more autumnal this week. It is time to enforce the welly rule on the grounds for juniors as it is suddenly very wet and muddy in places. It is also important that all juniors have indoor shoes to change into. Provision for children with SEND is in the news this Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 29th September 2023
This week has been a sporty week. The cross-country season is starting and we are delighted to have four new courses across the school grounds ranging from a short green route of just over 300m to a black route of over 800m. Routes can also be combined for longer sessions. The children have reported Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 22nd September 2023
It’s been a rather wet week at school but damp weather doesn’t deter us! Our Ofsted report won’t be officially published for many weeks but we have received a positive draft that we will now work through and give feedback on. It is somewhat frustrating that all our work is condensed to just a Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 15/9/23
We finally received our Ofsted inspection this week and it has been a positive experience. I would like to thank our parents for their wonderful support for the school in Parent View, the unusually high number of free text comments left privately therein for the inspector and for the time taken to speak with Read More
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