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Headteacher 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
Read newsHeadteacher blog 6th May 2022
This week, we got confirmation of nearly £250,000 of investment in the infant school. Great news you might think, but actually it is fire-stopping works that are principally about protecting the council’s asset rather than saving children or staff lives. We can already evacuate the building very quickly in the event of a fire Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 29/4/22
We are all working hard at school: in part, preparing for SATs in Y2 and Y6 coming up next month. It’s a balance: we want to do well and reach our potential, but we also don’t want to narrow the curriculum nor place undue stress or anxiety on our children and staff. I think Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 25th March 2021
It has been a beautiful sunny week at school: lovely to see all the children enjoying and using the grounds. On Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure of showing a group of staff from another local school around the grounds as they are looking for ideas and advice around their site development. One of Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 18th March 2022
It has been a lovely week at school. The sun is shining more and we have a flurry of off-site outdoor educational visits. This week, Year 2 have enjoyed trips to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and over the next two weeks all of Year 3 are going to Harlow Carr Gardens in Harrogate and Read More
Read newsHeadteacher Blog 11th March 2022
There are signs of spring all around: warmer weather, leaf buds, frollicking frogs and spawn in the pond and a fox feeding cubs (or a very pregnant vixen mate) on the school grounds. We lost a lot of our flock of chickens on Sunday/Monday morning and these incidents almost always take place in March Read More
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