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Harvest Festival 2019
This morning we welcomed lots of families to our annual Harvest Festival. Many thanks for all the donations which will be going to St George’s Crypt next week. We enjoyed singing, musical accompaniment, some super recording playing and a special guest Big Daddy tomato! Some Y6 children made fresh apple juice with our press Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 11th October 2019
Our school is fortunate to have friends like Tom and Helen and their colleagues at Barclays Bank. Once again, a team from the bank have spent a day on site carrying out great work up on the school farm. Having also secured a chunk of funding, the volunteers replaced a set of compost bins, Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s blog 4th October 2019
This week I have spent some considerable time showing candidates for Deputy Headship and prospective new families around the school. For one parent it was a nostalgic tour as she had left our school 21 years ago; she recognised Mrs Fulton and Mrs Wilson and said that they look just the same – I Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 27th September 2019
A rainy week at school can be less fun, but nevertheless, we have had another good week. If families haven’t already brought in wellies, they probably should so that we can keep accessing the grounds all year round. It was unfortunate for Year 5 that it was wet on their Ancient Greeks day but Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 20 September 2019
It has been glorious at school this week and we have certainly enjoyed the weather. With the Climate Strikes in the news this week, we have discussed Greta Thunberg and listened to her messages in assembly with the older children. Greta famously travelled to New York by sailing boat and Y6 children this week Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog Friday 13th September 2019
This school year has started very well and it was lovely to be on a sunny lunchtime duty today as the cricket nets opened, Mr beevers ran a cross country club and children were having a really active playtime generally across the breadth of the school grounds. A new member of staff commented on Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s blog 6th September 2019
It is great to be back in school! We had a rush to be ready in the juniors as we have had new heating installed in almost all the classrooms and had to clear all the rooms. Sadly, our re-roofing project for the infants was postponed at the last moment and that work is Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 19th July 2019
And so we end another academic year at Farfield… It has been a successful year with good academic progress and outcomes and lots of successes across the school. There have been challenges too. On Wednesday we had a fantastic Leavers’ Show that was superbly personalised for and by our children. What shone out was Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 12th July 2019
We are approaching the end of the school year and it is very busy. End of year reports will go out on Monday along with SATs results and other statutory assessments for Reception and Year 1. This week Y4 have been on a trip to Horton in Ribblesdale, 5L have been to Malham, Nursery Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog July 5th 2019
We had another fantastic PTA Camp-Over last weekend: the sun shone, for the most-part, and children and families played for hours on end. Many thanks and congratulations to all those that organised or that contributed to the event and those that were able to attend. The PTA made nearly £2500 profit but, more importantly, Read More
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