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Head teacher blog 1st February 2019
It has been a typically busy and exciting week at Farfield. I am always particularly pleased when the school makes good use of expertise and opportunities from the local community and this has been evident this week. On Monday, both Year 6 classes went to visit Sunnybank Mills to explore our local heritage. This Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 25th January 2019
It has been back to the sixties in Year 2 this week with visitors reminiscing and a day-long workshop that ended with an enjoyable performance for parents. It has been great to have such a vibrant, ‘living’ topic but it does make me feel old that a decade I lived in is now a Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 18th January 2019
I have been thinking about food a lot this week. On Tuesday we had an interesting day with a researcher working on behalf of Public Health England who is doing a food case study on our school prior to a consultation on changes to School Food Standards. This is such a broad issue about Read More
Read newsHappy New Year!
Welcome back to school and a belated happy new year! This term began with a teacher training day around development of vocabulary. This was a really good session, led by a fabulous member of the local authority’s school improvement team. The staff seemed to be enthused by the suggestions and it is good to Read More
Read newsHeadteacher blog 14 December 2018
This week there have been two charming Christmas performances in Nursery and Reception and on-going rehearsals for next week’s many performances amongst the older children. On Wednesday we had a successful Christmas Fair and our sincere thanks go to our fabulous PTA volunteers for all their hard work throughout the day (and beforehand) setting Read More
Read newsHeadteacher’s blog 7/12/18
I have missed school this week as I have been largely working on secondment in Leeds. It is interesting working across our huge, vibrant city with a wide range of partners: over 300 schools and academies, social work teams, the NHS and third sector. Working together is a strength in the city but brings Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog November 29th 2018
It has been quite a week – lots of events and an unexpected drama on Tuesday when we had a partial power failure in the infants building which resulted in us having to make over 320 packed lunches at very short notice! The Farfield team all pulled together and we got through a very tricky afternoon. Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 23rd November
The weather has turned colder and more miserable and the winter sniffles have definitely arrived. More seriously, a local school has been heavily hit by influenza this week (more than half of Year 3 off school for example). Next week we have influenza vaccinations in our school for all those children up to Y5 Read More
Read newsHead teacher blog 16th November 2018
It was a startling sight at times today at school: staff and children dressed as ‘Rock Stars’ as part of Children in Need and to raise the profile of our big push on times tables through the ‘Times Tables Rock Stars’ website and lessons. Many thanks for everyone’s support. I have been showing lots Read More
Read newsHeadteacher Blog 9th November
I hope that all our Hindu and Sikh families had an enjoyable Diwali this week. In school we have been looking at ‘Behaviour and Engagement’: dropping into classes and observing standards of behaviour and pupils’ commitment to their learning. What we have observed has been very positive. Children are working hard and are typically Read More
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