News
Headteacher 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
Read newsHeadteacher blog Friday 4th March 2022
‘In like a lion, out like a lamb’ is the traditional description of March. This year, the winds came early and we are left with a damp squib. The school fields are a quagmire after so much rain and we are looking forward to the drier weather and the sunshine that is forecast next Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 18th February 2022
We have got to the end of a very long, dark and challenging half term. The children and staff have been fantastic and, despite the disruption, there is still a really happy atmosphere and lots of terrific learning going on. New COVID cases are relatively low compared to January, although half the new cases Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 11th February 2022
It’s been another good week at Farfield. Attendance is almost where it usually should be and we are only getting one or two confirmed new COVID cases a day. This half term we have had a couple of children that were due to have surgical procedures, and on both occasions the children have asymptomatically Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 4th February 2021
It has been a much better week as regards pupil attendance (>90% every day, up to 94%) but it has been exceptionally difficult staffing-wise, especially in our youngest classes. From Nursery to Y1, every class has been without its usual teacher for at least part of the week. Our other teachers and support staff Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog January 28th 2022
It has been a slightly better week as regards COVID disruption at school with roughly a halving of child cases over the week, but the rate of infections amongst staff remains steady at about 6 or 7 a week this month. Attendance overall has risen towards 85-90% but this remains chronically low by historical Read More
Read news
