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Head teacher blog 17th May 2019
It has been Y6 SATs week across the country and our children have worked hard and done their best. We await the results with anticipation. As long as they have made good progress from their various Y2 starting points, we will all be pleased. Year 2 have also been doing some less formal SATs Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog May 10th 2019
We have squeezed a great deal into just four cold and wet days this week at school. Year 1 enjoyed a visiting animal workshop, learning about a range of exotic creatures. Year 3 had a soggy trip to beautiful Harlow Carr Gardens to learn more about plants and Year 4 were visited by a Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 3rd May 2019
It has been a truly remarkable week at Farfield with the nation’s (and world’s) media focused on us for a few days. I was surprised by the attention but it seems a mix of food, children and animals makes a heady news-worthy mix. I think the biggest and most welcome news this week was Read More
Read newsHead teacher’s blog 26th April 2019
It has been a very busy week for recruitment at school this week with a number of new teachers appointed for September. We were delighted by the quality of the candidates that we were able to attract to the school and the appointees are ambitious, talented and local practitioners who really want to come Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 29th March 2019
It’s the end of a busy term and the sun is shining: heralding the coming of spring and longer, warmer days. The children have enjoyed the good weather and the use of the grounds. I particularly liked the Y4 Rock Club that has been set up by the children around the spoil heap from Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 22nd March 2019
It has been lovely to see the sun shine again this week and our school grounds bustling with activity at playtimes and lunchtimes. There has be plenty of other ‘activity’ this week too. On Monday half of the Year 4 cohort took part in a skipping festival at West Leeds Academy, on Tuesday we took Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 15th March 2019
It has been quite a wild and windy week. Traditionally, this has caused a headache for teachers as children bring their loud, outdoor voices into the classroom. In fact, things have remained very calm and peaceful inside the school with one teacher having to encourage their children to actually talk more as I visited Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog March 1st 2019
It is the first day of spring and the children have enjoyed the fine, dry weather and being able to play on the grass. The temperatures have been ridiculously unseasonal, and children in Year 5 children studying plant reproduction this week have seen bees all over a tree near the farm whose pollen-filled catkin Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog February 15th 2019
Thursday was the day of love and I saw so much to love in school on that day. The morning consisted of a Farsley Learning Alliance review of writing across our school with the heads of the other Farsley primary schools, their leaders and our School Improvement Advisor joining with our own senior leadership Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 8th February 2019
As you may know, I am on secondment for 50% of the time with Leeds Children’s Services. I do miss school sometimes, and I often find that my remaining time in school is disproportionately spent in meetings rather than with children and colleagues in classrooms. Fortunately, we have very strong teaching and support teams Read More
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