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Headteacher blog 9th September 2022
It’s great to be back in school and we have had, overall, a very positive week. We were very busy on Monday trying to put the infant building back together after very extensive (and messy) fire-stopping work over the summer. Many hands made light(er) work, but we were still cleaning on Tuesday morning and Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 22/7/21
It’s the end of a long, challenging school year and the children and staff deserve their summer holiday. It has been a very successful year, with good progress across the school and some outstanding SATs results in Year 6. All this has been achieved despite a global pandemic, continued difficulties with attendance and a Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 15th July 2022
It has been a positive penultimate week of the school year. For me, the week has been dominated by proof-reading and querying reports, followed by adding a headteacher comment. There is a lot to check: how did the child attain last year, or at the end of the previous key stage; how has their Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 8th July 2022
A week is a long time in politics – 48 hours even – and it has been quite a 7 days at Farfield. Last weekend we had a fantastic PTA Camp-Over on site: over 70 families camping and many hundreds more on site. It was another fabulously successful day, with so much fun to Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s blog 1/7/22
This week we received our Healthy Schools Award external validation report. Whilst it’s not quite ready for publication, we are delighted by the draft findings of the assessment: highly praising leadership and practice in areas such as PSHE, healthy eating, pastoral care and physical activity; recognising the high profile given to well-being and celebrating Read More
Read newsHeadteacher Blog 24th June 22
It has been a really positive week at Farfield other than attendance which is still very low by historic standards. Chicken Pox is affecting LOTS of children, especially in the infants, and there are a lot of children on holiday with pent-up demand still working through. I don’t think it is just us, but Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s Blog 17th June 2022
It has been a glorious week at Farfield and the school has been looking beautiful in the sunshine. The children have also looked smart this week with class photos on Wednesday and Thursday. This week Year 4 have sat their new statutory Times Tables Check. This is delivered online and the children have 6 Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 10/6/22
It’s good to be back in school after 8 working days on Y5 and Y6 residential in the Dales. The residentials have been fantastic, although poor 5W had theirs curtailed somewhat by appallingly wet weather that meant that they couldn’t cave. Overall, though, the residentials have been a fantastic success with the children showing Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 20th May 2022
It’s been such a busy week at school: a week that has showcased many of the best features of our school. On Monday, the day was spent setting our new budget and things were slightly more positive than we had expected. This gives us scope to do some more exciting and targeted work next Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 13/5/22
This week we have had formal Y6 SATs (and Y2s have begun less formal equivalents). The assessments went well, although more stress was evident amongst some children than I recall previously. This is the first time that we have done SATs since 2019 and I think the children will have done well despite the Read More
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