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Headteacher blog 14/5/21
Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim families and colleagues! I hope that you have had a great time despite the current circumstances. This week I have been thinking about money: specifically, the school budget. We spent Tuesday modelling plans for this financial year and beyond and the bottom-line figure was better than we feared. Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 7/5/21
I am doing lots of school tours at the moment: new families with children due to start in September. The timing of the tour is quite significant as in the mornings we see lots of English and Maths whereas afternoon visits showcase a much wider curriculum. The children are clearly very settled now into Read More
Read newsHeadteacher Blog 30/4/21
It’s been a ‘blooming marvellous’ week at Farfield as the blossom dazzles and children have worked and played happily across the school. I have been doing lots of tours this week for parents of children that will be new to school in September 2021. Each set of parents that we have shown around seems Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 23/4/21
There are few better places to be than our school on a sunny day like today. The grounds look magnificent in the sunshine and the children are given lots of opportunities to enjoy them. It has been a pleasure giving tours this week to new families that have been allocated our school for next Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 1/4/2021
We have reached the end of a tough term. The debacle of the start of the term in early January seems such a long time ago and it has been a difficult time. Staff have worked hard to try to maintain as close to normal as possible, but school isn’t quite the same in Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 26/3/21
Children have been completing some assessments this week, helping us to analyse where there may need to be some intervention and the extent to which children are reaching age-related expectations academically. We will have to help some children fill some gaps, but we also want to restore a rich, broad curriculum and focus on Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 19/3/21
It has been our second full week back after lockdown, and some things are becoming clearer. Most children seem fine: simply happy to be back at school. For some children, however, anxieties have heightened. These are typically children who were known to us for related reasons previously. Standards don’t appear to have dropped off Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s blog 12/3/21
It is soooo good to have all the children back in school. For the vast majority of children, it appears to have been a quick readjustment to ‘normal’ school life and routines. For some of our youngest children, they have known little else. We know that this isn’t quite our usual, most ambitious and exciting curriculum Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 5th March 2021
We are so looking forward to welcoming all the children back into school on Monday. A very large majority of children and families have been able to engage very well with the remote learning offer and I think that staff have done a very good job in difficult circumstances. I would particularly like to Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 26th February 2021
It’s been a momentous week at school: Monday’s confirmation that all children will return on March 8th and a huge bit of news regarding some additional funding for the school. The return to school is clearly something we all welcome and are looking forward to. It will be great to have everyone back and Read More
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